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Oil  Maps Main Players Chevron: part of Standard Oil, it merged with Gulf Oil and Texaco to form one of the world's largest global energy companies. “Chevron is guilty of some of the worst environmental and human rights abuses in the world” according to "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a director of Chevron, and even had an oil tanker named after her. ExxonMobil is the largest publicly traded, integrated oil and gas company in the world. Its operating profit in 2005 was $36.13 billion (an all-time record for any publicly traded company), slightly less than the gross domestic product of Azerbaijan, while its revenues were slightly less than the GDP of Belgium. Both Exxon (formerly Esso) and Mobil were once parts of Standard Oil. “Esso is the world's no 1 climate criminal. It is the only major oil company that denies the reality of climate change and does not spend a single dollar on clean, renewable energy.” – Greenpeace UK's page on Esso. BP plc, originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London. Royal Dutch Shell plc/Koninklijke Nederlandse Shell NV is a major Anglo-Dutch energy company. See Information about Specific Companies/Shell for more links. Total SA is a French oil company headquartered in Paris, France, and one of the top four oil companies in the world. Source: Wikipedia unless otherwise stated.

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Peak Oil. “Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists, and investment bankers in the world. These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global "Peak Oil."” Caspian Oil. World Oil Production per country. World Oil Consumption per country. Top 20 Oil Deficits and Surpluses. The top 20 countries with an oil deficit or surplus. Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil by Ed Vulliamy, 20 April 2003. The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war by John Laughland, 02 August 2004. “Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan.” Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur by David Morse, 18 August 2005. Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors by Karen Talbot, 2002. “Venezuela has been receiving about half of its revenues from the state owned Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). … "Opposition business leaders have said openly that they want to depose Chávez "so they can boost oil production or even privatize the country's cash cow (PDVSA). … They have been enraged … over Chávez's efforts to take resources from the rich to aid the poor, who represent 80 percent of the population," says Newsday writer, Letta Tayler.” Howard's attempted bribery to steal Timor oil by Jon Lamb, 16 March 2005. Rebels threaten all-out attack on Nigeria's oil by Matthew McAllester, 05 November 2006. “Kidnappings escalate as Niger Delta militants say violence is their last resort.” Halliburton Wrecks Mexico by John Ross, 18 November 2006. Oil Inferno by Michael Watts, 02 January 2007. “The terrifying oil explosion that engulfed a Lagos neighborhood following Christmas Day – the current death toll is almost 300 – says less about vandals who hot-tap the exposed pipelines running through the city's abject slum world than the venality, waste and corruption of a Nigerian petro-capitalism fuelled by windfall profits and modernity's addiction to the automobile.” America's interests in Somalia by Mark Fineman, 18 January 1993. “Four major U.S. oil companies are sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions.” Crude awakening part one by Sebastian Junger, 15 April 2007. “For decades, the oil-rich delta of the Niger river has been plundered by western companies and rampant political corruption. But now a small group of ruthless Ijaw tribesmen are threatening to sabotage production unless their demands for compensation are met. Sebastian Junger heads into the secretive mangrove swamps to meet the waterborne warriors who are prepared to trigger a global meltdown.” Crude awakening part two by Sebastian Junger, 15 April 2007. Big Oil Comes Back To Baku by Mark Jacobson, March 1999.

Oil Concessions in Central and Southern Sudan as of August 2002.

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