International
South Sudan: Investment in Kenyan Port Offers South Sudan Alternative Oil Export Route
Aug 7, 2014
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Lloyd's List
CHINESE investment to the tune of $480m in the new Kenyan port of Lamu is a significant milestone in enabling South Sudan to export its…
China/Vietnam: Vietnam Walks a Thin Line Between US and China After Oil Rig Exit
Aug 7, 2014
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An Dien, Thanh Nien News
Hanoi has kept the threat of an international lawsuit and stronger relations with Japan and the US on the table even after Beijing removed its…
Iraq/Kurdistan: A Tanker’s Tale: Iraq’s Oil Divide - Caught Up in a Row Between Kurdistan and Baghdad
Aug 6, 2014
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The Independent
Sixty miles off the coast of Texas sits a crude oil tanker fully loaded with years of antagonism between the Kurdish region of Iraq and…
South China Sea/China: China’s SOEs Test The Waters In The South China Sea
Aug 6, 2014
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Dr. Meg Bowman, The Establishment Post
In early May, the Chinese HYSY-981 oil rig was moved into waters near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. The oil rig…
Sudan: Sudan MP Accuses Army of Land Grabbing in Sennar
Aug 6, 2014
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Radio Tamazuj
Yusuf Abu Rouf, a member of Sudan’s National Legislative Assembly has accused elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces of grabbing land belonging to the Rufaa…
Syria: ISIL Seizes Village in Syria's Oil-Rich Deir ez-Zor
Aug 6, 2014
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World Bulletin
Militants led by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – ISIL – captured Wednesday Suwayda village near Syria's eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, said…
Will Climate Change Lead to Conflict or Cooperation?
Aug 5, 2014
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IPS
Director of the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Raleigh thinks that researchers and the media have put too simplistic a spin on the…
Iraq: Middle East Water Wars: Why Islamic State Wants Iraq's Dams
Aug 5, 2014
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Nigel Wilson, International Business Times
When ultra-violent militants sliced through the outskirts of Iraq's northern capital of Mosul in June, central government soldiers quickly melted away into the southern desert…
South Sudan: Document: South Sudan Govt Seeks to Silence Famine Warnings
Aug 5, 2014
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Radio Tamazuj
South Sudan’s government has issued an advisory to humanitarian organizations not to publish independent statements on the food and nutrition situation in the country without…
South China Sea/Vietnam: Vietnam Orders Fishing Boats to be Armed with Machine Guns
Aug 5, 2014
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Want China Times
The Vietnamese government has issued an order stipulating that boats under the jurisdiction of the country's fishery law enforcement command should be equipped with weapons,…
Philippines: Philippines Sentences 12 Chinese Fishermen to Jail
Aug 5, 2014
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Reuters
A Philippine court on Tuesday found 12 Chinese fishermen guilty of illegal fishing in Philippine waters, sending them to jail for six to 12 years,…
South China Sea: China Can Build What It Wants On S.China Sea Isles, Says Official
Aug 4, 2014
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Malaysian Digest
BEIJING: China can build whatever it wants on its islands in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese official said today, rejecting proposals ahead of…
Liberia: Busted
Aug 4, 2014
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AllAfrica
Reviewing the books, financial records and transactions of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL), the country's supreme audit institution, the General Auditing Commission (GAC),…
Conflict Minerals: Gold Chains
Aug 4, 2014
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Mark Hay, The New Yorker
A little-known provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires companies using gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten to file reports that…
Iraq/Kuridstan: Iraq’s Oil: A Factor for Unity or Division?
Aug 4, 2014
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Rudaw
Washington DC - Oil has perhaps never posed a threat as big as it does now to the country’s territorial integrity.
Iraqi Kurds have threatened…
Iraq: Iraq's Islamist Insurgency Puts Its Southern Oil in the Spotlight
Aug 4, 2014
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Rania El Gamal, Reuters
DUBAI, August 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Islamist insurgency, crippling further its dream to match the oil power of Saudi Arabia, makes oilfields in the…
Climate Change: Will Climate Change Lead to Conflict or Cooperation?
Aug 4, 2014
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Independent European Daily Express
UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - The headline of every article about the relationship between climate change and conflict should be complicated according to Clionadh Raleigh.
Director of…
South Sudan: Unity State Authorities Accuse Sudanese Soldiers of Looting Abandoned Oil Equipment
Aug 4, 2014
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Radio Tamazuj
At least four Sudanese army soldiers were killed and another two captured in an ambush laid by SPLA forces at oil fields in Pariang County…
Kenya: Musalia Mudavadi Calls for Extensive Investigation into Lamu Land Grabbing, Linking It to Insecurity
Aug 3, 2014
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Standard Digital
Amani coalition leader Musalia Mudavadi says land grabbing in Lamu could be behind the recent insecurity cases in Lamu county. Mudavadi is accusing the government…
Iraq/Kurdistan: ISIS Takes Over Iraq’s Biggest Dam
Aug 3, 2014
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Al Arabiya News
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq's biggest dam unopposed by Kurdish fighters, who also lost three towns and…
Sudan: Sudan Receives $183m From Oil Companies in Transit Fees
Aug 3, 2014
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Sudan Tribune
(KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government announced on Sunday that the central bank had received $183 million from oil companies in transit fees per previous agreements.
On…
Iraq: Lukoil to Earn $2B from Iraq Oil Field
Aug 2, 2014
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Eduard Gismatullin, The Daily Star
LONDON: OAO Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil producer, expects to earn at least $2 billion from exporting Iraqi crude in 2014, 17 years after first winning…
Iraq: Jihadists Kill 14 Iraq Kurds in Battle Over Dam, Oil Facility
Aug 2, 2014
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Ahram Online
Kurdish troops fought off a jihadist attack on an oil facility and a dam near the Iraqi city of Mosul but lost 14 of their…
South Sudan: South Sudan Conflict Drives Idea of Oil Wealth Monitoring
Aug 1, 2014
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Drazen Jorgic and Edmund Blair, Reuters
NAIROBI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - South Sudan's oil fields have become a battleground in the struggle for power in Africa's newest nation, encouraging Western nations…
Iraq/Kurdistan: For Wandering Tankers with $300mln of Kurdish Crude, End-Game Still in Doubt
Aug 1, 2014
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Jonathan Saul, Reuters
Aug 1 (Reuters) - After a legal show-down in Texas this week, the outlook for a handful of tankers holding some $300 million worth of…
Libya: Risks Remain to Libya's Oil Supply Despite Reopening of Ports, Fields
Aug 1, 2014
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Benoit Falcon, The Wall Street Journal
LONDON—The reopening of Libyan oil fields and ports this month has been a key factor behind a steady fall in international oil prices recently, with…
Vietnam: Vietnam to Arm Fishery Surveillance Ships After Standoff With China
Aug 1, 2014
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Tra Mi, Voice of America
Vietnam says all ships under the management of its Fisheries Surveillance Force will be equipped with weapons following a tense standoff with China over a…
South China Sea: China Expands Offshore Oil Fleet for Contested Waters
Aug 1, 2014
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Eric Yep and Wayne Ma, The Wall Street Journal
China is accelerating the expansion of its offshore oil fleet—and adding coast guard vessels to protect it—as it ventures farther into the sea for energy…
South Sudan: South Sudan Delays Gold Production By a Year Due to Conflict
Jul 31, 2014
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Reuters
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan will delay the start of gold mining by a year from its planned date in 2016, a senior government official…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdish Oil Cargo Unloaded at Sea, Destination a Mystery
Jul 31, 2014
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Keith Wallis, Reuters
(Reuters) - Part of a Kurdish oil cargo has been offloaded from a Greek-managed tanker into another tanker in the South China Sea, but mystery…