Oil

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

"The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States' vital interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil." Pentagon, US Government milnet.com/milnet/pentagon/centcom/chap1/stratgic.htm#USPolicy 

"We're hostage to oil, that's as simple as you can put it. We have let the economic considerations take precedence" Larry Johnson, former CIA officer "Al-Quaeda is always there, where the oil is, even in Asia or South America" Anonymous Netizen

From 1949 to 1972, the demand for oil increased by five and a half times in the USA, by 15 times in Western Europe and by 137 times in Japan. The hydrocarbon society was born and developed through the 50s, 60s and 70s. The petrochemicals industry converts the oil molecule into clothes, food and fertilisers, added to the value of oil as a raw material of importance for energy and trade strategies. In 1971, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Opec, was established. Two years later, came the world's first oil boycott, as a part of the so-called Yom-Kippur war between Israel and Egypt in October 1973. The signal to the world was a clear one. Oil was cast into power politics and it is still there as a global power in itself. To understand, why the so called "war on terrorism" is in reality a war on oil, which needed an official startup (September 11), one has to examine the different positions of Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco, SOCAR, Exxon Mobil, British Gas, Agip, Conoco Phillips /Phillips Petroleum the Norwegian Statoil, TotalFinaElf, Russia LukOil/LukArco, GasProm of Ex-Premier Tschernomyrdin, Kaz Munai Gaz in Kazakhstan, Mitsui of Japan and a few more. 1,200 oil Investment companies and manufacturers of oil equipment are competing on the oil of the Middle East, the Norwayan-Russian North Sea, the Caspian Sea and other worldwide sea parts. Very important is the history of russia since 1996 or better the story of Chalva Tchigirinksi, who is one of the directors of Sibir Energy plc, which has its headquarter in Moscow
( sibirenergy.com/corporate/directory/)

Mr. Tchigirinski is the representative of the largest shareholder in Sibir. In this capacity he is a Director of Yugraneft, a Director of both Evikhon and Salym Petroleum Development NV. He is President of both Moscow Oil Company and Central Fuel Company (which controls the Moscow refinery) neither of which are in competition with Sibir. His interests in the sector include a key role in British Petroleum's impressive fuel retail network in Moscow. Sibir Energy is a UK independent oil and gas production company that produces about 3 million barrels of oil annually and has development plans for oilfields with reserves of almost a billion barrels of oil. Sibir Energy plc was formed in 1996 by its parent, Pentex Energy plc, a UK independent oil and gas company. Founded in 1996 with the specific aim of acquiring substantial and inexpensive reserves of Russian oil in the ground, Sibir had amassed 2.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil by the beginning of 2001. Among the directors of Sibir are Tchigirinskis brother Alexander, Mr. Alexander Betsky (three years of accounting and audit experience with Ernst & Young), Urs J. Haener, Non-Executive Director (and former President and CEO of Credit Suisse-Moscow), Henry O. Cameron, William L. S. Guinness and a few others. Sibirs auditor is Ernst & Young. 

In December 2001, a few weeks after the opening of a new pipeline in Uzbekistan, Sibir tried to to merge with the Central Fuel Company that owns a refinery and a big retail network in Moscow region. They announced, that they had acquired a further 20 per cent stake in Yugraneft from Gazprom. Gazprom later had major problems. On March 06, 2002 the Energy News Portal Gas+Oil wrote in their issue, that Gazprom became the "russian ENRON": "...As financial scandals go, this one has everything. A Big Five accounting firm accused of overlooking wildly improper deals in its probes of a client's books. A client that's one of the country's biggest energy firms, and yet is now a symbol for the evils of crony capitalism. The amounts involved? Billions and billions. There's more: Leaked documents, infuriated shareholders, threatened lawsuits. Even the President of the country is angry...:" (Source: gasandoil.com/goc/company/cnr21050.htm

) Auditor of Gazprom was US-company PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest accounting firm, who signed a new CEO, Samuel A. DiPiazza, on January 1st 2002. DiPiazza is contributor of the Beta Alpha Psi Society and in connections with Ernst + Young and Arthur Andersen. Source: www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/prof/bap/links.html

"...PwC has been signing off on Gazprom's books since 1996, and fed-up shareholders say it is high time to give the job to someone else.." PwC, with over 150,000 people in more than 150 countries incl. Cayman Islands

Back to Sibir: In June 2000 Sibir completed already the acquisition of an additional 62% of Russian oil and gas producing company Evikhon and the first 23.551% from Yugraneft. And Sibneft, in an joint venture with Sibir Energy, hooked up in March 2002 with former Dick Cheney's company Halliburton: gasandoil.com/goc/company/cnr21067.htm 

Sibir was part of PSG International, which became the leader of the Transcaspian gas pipeline project consortium in February 1999.
(Source: eurasianet.org/resource/turkmenistan/hypermail/200009/0025.html

Later, the consortium was joined by the British-Dutch Shell company which took over 50 per cent sponsorship of the project,as well as responsibility for providing the pipeline with Turkmen raw gas. The story of Sibir developed successfully in 2002. Tatneft, the country's number six producer, bought 33% astake in London-listed Sibir Energy. In July 2002 the UK-based Sibir Energy and russian Lukoil together with the Latsis Group of Greece, Rosneft and Sibneft (Russia) bought stakes in Croatia´s INA Industrija Nafte. Oil-barrel.com reported in August 2002, that "Sibir took a large step forward in becoming a fully integrated Russian oil and gas company earlier this year when it finalised downstream arrangements, which will complement the company's substantial, but as yet unexploited upstream reserves. Two Russian groups Tatneft and Corus Holdings announced they were investing in Sibir. Initially they were to lend US$120 million to Sibir and subsequently subscribe for ordinary shares in Sibir to the value of US$240 million (£166 million) at 22.8p a share. Sibir decided to concentrate on Russia over two years ago (2000) when a series of deals with Mr Chalva Tchigirinski, a well known Russia business man, saw him injecting assets including Priobskoye into Sibir and ending up with 51 per cent of the company's capital. Sibir has some production through its Yuzknoye and Orekhovskoye fields but the amounts are modest. ...The Russian major Sibneft has a 40 per cent interest in Priobskoye and will be the developer. This is a long-term venture. In the Salym project there is a 50/50 per cent joint venture with Shell, essentially to develop two thirds of the Salym field. ...While these mega deals were going on, Sibir, with loans due, found it was running out of cash. Accordingly Sibir has sold its Pentex group of assets onshore the UK. The price received was US$36 million. Some US$15 million was ringed fenced in a loan to the Bank of Scotland. ...The deals with Tatneft and Corus mean between them these two companies will hold 33 per cent of Sibir.
Source: www.oil-barrel.com/archives/news_archive/2002/aug-2002/sibir120802.htm

At the end of 2002 it was more than obvious, that the whole "war on terrorism" was in reality a "war on oil" and a battle between US-/UK-, russian (Lukoil->) and french oil (TotalFina ->) industries. Russia and France resisted for many months against the US plans to invade Iraq, who had already oil contracts with Lukoil and TotalFina. It was well known, that Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Flowserve, Fisher-Rosemount had used subsidiaries and joint venture companies to deal with iraqi oil companies. Source: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?offset=&query=cheney+iraq+halliburton&multiViewArticleId001103000626=001103000626

China (China OGP, chinaogp-online.com/ ) didn't participate in the oil on war yet, because it reaches its mid-1990s OECD level of energy/GDP by 2050. Due to a study, The World Oil Supply 1990-2030, which was completed in late 1995 by the prestigious Geneva, Switzerland- based group Petroconsultants and a second report, prepared by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Office of Transportation Technology of the U.S. Department of Energy, the world is running out of "cheap oil". By 2050, the 1994 report said, world oil production would drop to 17.5 million barrels a day, or slightly more than it was in the 1950s. "The problem of gradually tightening world oil supplies is exacerbated by a growing concentration of remaining reserves in the Persian Gulf. All other producing countries but the five Persian Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates) will peak before 2000" Source: www.awea.org/wew/684-1.html

In 2000, the CIA released their paper "Global Trends 2015", in which they described a "cooperation between governments and private organizations and to the growing reach of international criminal and terrorist networks" and a "rising demand for OPEC oil". "The responsibilities of once "semiautonomous" government agencies increasingly will intersect because of the transnational nature of national security priorities and because of the clear requirement for interdisciplinary policy responses." "The potential for conflict will arise from rivalries in Asia, ranging from India-Pakistan to China-Taiwan, as well as among the antagonists in the Middle East" "By 2015, only one-tenth of Persian Gulf oil will be directed to Western markets; three-quarters will go to Asia." "The Persian Gulf region-absent a major war-will see large increases in oil production capacity...Russia and the Middle East account for three-quarters of known gas reserves." "Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan will threaten regional stability."
Source: cia.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015/

In January 2001 socialist paper "Wsws" speculated, that "oil and gas pipelines to China from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan 
could be extended to link into the pipeline networks of both Russia and Iran". 
( Source: wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/oil-j03.shtml)

In 1998, US oil company UNOCAL stopped their negotiations with the Taliban to start working on a huge pipeline project. After the war against the Taliban started in late December 2001, one of the former UNOCAL advisors, Zalmay Khalilzad (->), a senior strategist at Rand (->), became a key National Security Council adviser on Afghanistan. French paper LeMonde claimed, that Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan worked for UNOCAL, too, as a consultant. It was never proven, if Le Mondes informations had been based on a confusion with Khalilzad, however the ties between him and UNOCAL are true. As the Guardian reported, gas reserves in afghanistan could be 576 trillion cubic feet. guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,579401,00.html 

The afghanistan pipeline project was once part of the Cent Gas Consortium in the Mid90s, at that time supported by ENRON, Conoco, Halliburton, UNOCAL (all US), PSG International Ltd. (a UK-based con-sortium of US companies General Electric and Bechtel), and Shell (UK/The Netherlands). On November 26th, 2001, CNN reported, that a new pipeline will pump around 600,000 barrels of oil to the west from Central Asia each day. The $2.6 billion Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) project runs from the Tengiz oilfield in western Kazakhstan to Russia 
cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/26/pipeline.opens/

In February 2002, "...Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, and the Afghan interim leader, Mr Hamid Karzai, agreed ... that their two countries should develop "mutual brotherly relations" and co-operate "in all spheres of activity" - including a proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. "We have agreed unanimously ... on working together to develop strong brotherly co-operation, brotherly relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan in all spheres of activity," Gen Musharraf said after their talks..." (Source: ireland.com/newspaper/world/2002/0209/448097021FR09KARZAI.html

In November 2000, former CIA director Woolsey,James already explained, that "during the Gulf War, Iraq came close to controlling half the world's oil. This could happen again, he warned." Source: http://journalism.unl.edu/joe/fall00/1101/state4.html

In an January 2003 interview with DER SPIEGEL, Woolsey confirmed, that the war against Iraq is about oil: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,231338,00.html

Q: Also geht es auch diesmal um Öl ... Woolsey: ... aber nicht nur um Amerikas Abhängigkeit vom Öl, sondern um die der ganzen Welt. Auf kurze Sicht liegt unsere grundlegende Verwundbarkeit darin, dass die Saudis die Fördermenge schnell drosseln oder steigern können, weil sie über die Hälfte der weltweiten "swing capacity", insgesamt vier Millionen Barrel, verfügen. Damit haben die Saudis entscheidenden Einfluss auf den Ölpreis. Wir müssen dem Nahen Osten die Ölwaffe wegnehmen.

Compare: stopexxonmobil.org/ (See Truth On Oil Strategy)