Geopolítica petrolera

For any country in the world peak oil leaves the prospect of a reduction of the same in the future, directly impacting energy independence. This highlights the following issues:. Access to the oil fields of the Middle East and the construction of oil and gas pipelines, oil transportation [citation needed]

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Petroleum is a data widely taken in consideration by the geopolitical strategists. Indeed, the dependence of countries towards this product is such a difficult supply (cost, decreased production) can in itself justify a conflict. Moreover, a war that breaks the petroleum supplying can force the implication of foreign powers, they would have been in a neutral paper initially. On the other hand, the oil supply of the belligerents is often influenced the choice of weapons, as happened during both world wars.

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Transportation difficulties linked to gas confine this hydrocarbon to local considerations geostrategias.
The increase in oil consumption of China confirms the arrival of the last actor between the participants already known by the Great Game reactivated on the geographic sets the Middle East and Central Asia where the site is located in Baku.
The objectives are not restricted to the Middle East, the peninsula of Bakassi has been ceded to Cameroon by Nigeria, after a ruling by the International Court of Justice for a disputed territory, it is underscored by the presence of no less than eight oil companies which has ensured sea prospecting adentro.2
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Geostrategy of which pass close by tankers constitutes the second objective, the oil transportation.


The Strait of Hormuz: geostrategic point of tension between Iran, Oman (Musandam Peninsula) and United Arab Emirates.

Iranian fields: some are offshore in the Persian Gulf, the tension linked to the maritime area ensues from it. This map also gives a reading of the conflict Iran / Iraq 80.
The Strait of Hormuz is both in the area of ​​influence of Iran and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, to which the United States delegated a fleet that anchored without interruption in the Persian Gulf, the 5th of the Navy. The tension is so palpable that even islets bordering the strait are subject to conflicts of territorial integrity.

West supplies depend very largely on the Suez Canal; the channel of Panama America.

Finally those of Japan and China pass through the Malacca Strait, the waterway is still unsafe, as these waters are among the last of the world where piracy is practiced. Responding to their needs, China tried (in late 2006) a contract with the Thai government to pass its petroleum by land and avoid the passage through the strait.

Furthermore, this narrow flows into the South China Sea, and a territorial conflict would imply to six neighbors for access to natural resources (oil is part of that interest).