Nigeria – The Significance of the Bonga Offshore Oil Platform Attack
On the heels of this weekend's Saudi Oil summit, Nigerian production has dropped to the lowest level in 25 years. This was in part because militant attacks shut in as much as 345,000 barrels per day of...
View ArticleGeopolitical Disruptions #1: Theory of Disruptions to Oil & Resource Supply
The peak and gradual decline in world oil production is beginning to spawn a set of geopolitical positive-feedback-loops that seem likely to exacerbate depletion and accelerate the effective rate of...
View ArticleGeopolitical Disruptions #2: Identifying the Feedback Loops
This post, the second in a series on Geopolitical Feedback Loops (see part 1 here), will outline the various geopolitical feedback loops that operate to disrupt oil and resource production. I've tried...
View ArticleAfghan Minerals -- Cure, Curse, or Hype?
The Pentagon revealed last week that Afghanistan has as much as $1 trillion in mineral wealth, a potential game changer in the ongoing conflict there. Many news outlets have picked up this story, with...
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