Seizing power
Subtitle: the grab for global oil wealth
By: Robert Slater
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781576602478
Description: "Seizing Power is the story of a power shift in the business that produces, refines, transports, and trades the world's most important commodity: oil. This book focuses on the stability and predictability of oil, the supply, demand, and price, and the current and future oil powers"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Edging toward violence and chaos; title: Two African oil nations: a study in contrasts; title: China invades Africa; title: Power in the desert: the Gulf and the Middle East; title: Testing the oil system: the war, the embargo, and spare capacity; title: The history of oil and the American dream; title: Ethics and oil; title: Hedging: insurance or speculation?; title: How much oil is left and how willing is the United States to drill for it?; title: Oil for the lamps of China; title: and India; title: Power shift; title: Russia: Putin's war against the oligarchs; title: Iran: arrogance as an oil strategy; title: Venezuela: the world according to Chavez; title: Brazil and Petrobras: a national oil company in a better world; title: After the power shift: where will it all lead?