energy security

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

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in the latter view, that development was necessary to meet the two objectives: helping to consolidate the nationhood of the newly independent states and enhancing energy security by bringing additional supplies to the world market. In due course, matters were generally—although never completely—resolved in favor of the more collaborative approach

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. Altogether, between them, they account for 35 percent of world petroleum consumption. Both benefit from stable markets, open to trade and investment, and improved energy security. But Chinese confidence needs to be enhanced in the reliability of the global market and the institutions maintaining its security. In turn, greater transparency about

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UNCONVENTIONALS: THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF OIL AND GAS Technology is unlocking what were previously unavailable energy resources. Source: IHS CERA 13 THE SECURITY OF ENERGY Energy security may seem like an abstract concern—certainly important, yet vague, a little hard to pin down. But disruption and turmoil—and the evident risks—

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and electric power infrastructure around the world by creating entry paths for those who wish to disrupt those systems. THE DIMENSIONS The usual definition of energy security is pretty straightforward: the availability of sufficient supplies at affordable prices. Yet there are several dimensions. First is physical security—protecting the assets, infrastructure,

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, when need be. Second, access to energy is critical. This means the ability to develop and acquire energy supplies—physically, contractually, and commercially. Third, energy security is also a system—composed of the national policies and international institutions that are designed to respond in a coordinated way to disruptions, dislocations, and

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emergencies, as well as helping to maintain the steady flow of supplies. And, finally and crucially, if longer-term in nature, is investment. Energy security requires policies and a business climate that promote investment and development to ensure that adequate supplies and infrastructure will be available, in a timely way

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traitors.”6 TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL REGIME Yet out of the rancorous Washington energy conference emerged the International Energy Treaty of 1974. It outlined a new energy security system that was meant to deal with disruptions, cope with crises, and avert future bruising competitions that could destroy an alliance. It provided for

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a formerly senior energy official in Japan. Accordingly, Japan has viewed nuclear energy as “an affordable, stable electricity source and as essential for Japan’s energy security.” Rather than abandon the nuclear plan, Japan strengthened safety regulations and moved ahead. To a large extent opposition was “neutralized.” By the beginning of 2011

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batteries are all referred to as “batteries.” METI sees these three technologies as pivotal to its triple mandates of ensuring Japan’s industrial competitiveness, improving energy security through diversification, and tackling the problem of climate change. For each of these devices, new materials and fabrication techniques will be required to improve efficiency

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through its internal energy crisis, with electricity demand outrunning the availability of coal and electricity, resulting in bottlenecks in supply and brownouts in power. Energy security had become an urgent issue for the top leadership because of growing oil imports and rising oil prices. China would soon start becoming an importer

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chickens and pigs. But by the beginning of the twenty-first century, a conjunction of developments—renewed support and ambitious targets for biofuels, combined with energy security and a growing focus on climate change—created fertile soil for the rebirth of interest in cellulosic ethanol. “SWITCH—WHAT?” Until 2006 very few

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region in which resources are so concentrated. And that kind of uncertainty and potential political volatility—and risks of crisis—increase concerns about vulnerability and energy security. These perceptions of greater risk translate into an increased risk premium in the price of oil, one that reflects the still-evolving new geopolitics

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Worthington, and Arthur Yan. I would also like to thank Strobe Talbott and the Brookings Institution, for the opportunity to participate in the Energy Security Initiative and chair the Energy Security Roundtable; Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum and Roberto Bocca, and Pawel Konzal at its Energy Community; Richard Levin, John Gaddis,

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Zhou Jiping ; Jiang and Sinton, Overseas Investments by Chinese National Oil Companies, pp. 7, 25; Erica Downs, “Who’s Afraid of China’s Oil Companies?” Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategy, and Implications (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), ch. 4; Fu Chengyu, speech, CERAWeek, February 2006; interviews. Chapter 10: China in

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13 U.S. Energy Information Administration, “World Oil Transit Chokepoints,” EIA website. 14 Donna J. Nincic, “The ‘Radicalization’ of Maritime Piracy: Implications for Maritime Energy Security,” Journal of Energy Security, December 2010; Jane’s Navy International, September 28, 2010. Chapter 14: Shifting Sands in the Persian Gulf 1 R. W. Ferrier, The History of

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Bloomberg, July 15, 2010. 18 Interview with Lee Schipper (“emissions elsewhere”). 19 IHS CERA, “Automotive Scenarios 2010”; Electrification Coalition, Electrification Roadmap: Revolutionizing Transportation and Achieving Energy Security (Washington, DC: Electrification Coalition, 2009). 20 Interview with Steve Koonin. 21 Calvin Timmerman, “Smart Grid’s Future: Evaluating Policy Opportunities and Challenges after the Recovery

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September 12, 2022, and for just over a year, he had been the senior adviser for energy security at the U.S. State Department, as well as a special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security under President Biden. Hochstein, who had a mop of dark hair that he combed across his head

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McSwane’s deep dive into the shady financial underbelly of the governmental response to COVID-19. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine further focused these fears. Energy security used to be about crude oil and natural gas. Now it’s also about lithium, copper, and other EV metals. Consider the following: Chile and

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penetration numbers, they just keep on growing. And here we have a U.S. asset that’s become really important to supply those needs.” Suddenly, energy security was about far more than just oil or gas. “Ten or fifteen years ago, you would never have thought that lithium would be a national

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. Finally, it would free up Whitehall to focus on the big strategic challenges that can only be handled nationally: major infrastructure projects, climate change, AI, energy security and so on. They will only deal with those enormous challenges if there is adequate scrutiny of their plans too. Which means dispersing more power

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and protecting the connectivity on which it depends. A simple equation is usually offered to explain China’s clear linkage between domestic and foreign policy: Energy security = economic growth = political stability = continuation of party rule. The formula breaks down without robust global connectivity: inflows and outflows. By contrast, both the Bush and

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pricing, would together represent the triumph of supply-demand complementarity over geopolitical division.*5 For Asians, “Drill, baby, drill” is a rallying cry for both energy security and regional stability. SOVEREIGNS OF THE SEA China’s state-owned oil companies and the American navy are not the only players in the maritime

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energy potential or global sustainable development more generally. The Iraq War has its roots in the misapplied quest of the Bush administration for U.S. energy security, though the war has only deepened the insecurity. Yet the U.S. fixation on Middle East oil goes back more than half a century to

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by Takuro Sato  · 17 Nov 2015

releasing emergency oil stocks [25]. Its current work is to ensure reliable, affordable, and clean energy. The four core areas of IEA’s works are energy security, economic development, environmental awareness, and engagement worldwide. The IEA consists of 28 member countries including Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy

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the same time, the United States’ energy and technology position is robust and growing. US oil and liqufied natural gas exports are major contributors to energy security for East Asian countries, while US military hardware and computing software are in high demand as well. US strategic influence in Asia is thus declining

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin  · 23 Dec 2008  · 1,445pp  · 469,426 words

and increasing support for greater environmental protection and, on the other, a commitment to economic growth and the benefits of Hydrocarbon Society, and apprehensions about energy security. These, then, are the three themes that animate the story that unfolds in these pages. The canvas is global. The story is a chronicle of

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the American vocabulary—"foreign oil." The Great Oil Deals: Aramco and the "Arabian Risk" That shift added a new dimension to the vexing question of energy security. The lessons of World War II, the growing economic significance of oil, and the magnitude of Middle Eastern resources all served, in the context of

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as six years earlier, during the 1967 Six-Day War. America's spare capacity had proved to be the single most important element in the energy security margin of the Western world, not only in every postwar energy crisis but also in World War II. And now that margin was gone. Without

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world, and thus was vulnerable to it. The real answer was to slow the growth in oil demand and, in the meantime, put some formal energy security measures in place. Royal Dutch/Shell had been distributing to government leaders a confidential "Pink Book," warning that the supply situation was dangerously out of

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a somewhat disreputable activity, trading, would now become a central preoccupation. A third factor was the contradictory and conflicting policies of consumer governments. The international energy-security system, which had been promoted by Kissinger at the 1974 Washington Energy Conference, was still in development, with many aspects yet untested. Actions taken by

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would price itself out of its competitiveness in energy markets; Middle Eastern producers would become, once again, the residual, to be shunned on grounds of energy security. Their importance to the industrial world, and their clout, would decline. The Saudis issued what became known as the "Yamani Edict," which stated that Saudi

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an alternative gas source safely within the NATO alliance. With that, the gas pipeline controversy had been brought to an end, and thereafter questions of energy security could be put aside by the Western leaders. The issues on the agenda at the 1985 Bonn economic summit thus revealed how the world had

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about security of supply were being made irrelevant in the battle for market share. But what of the future? Would cheap imported oil undermine the energy security so laboriously rebuilt over the preceding thirteen years? It was not merely that prices were collapsing; they were also out of control. For the first

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crises by themselves, and that it was up to governments to take on that role. In the years since, the industrial countries have developed an energy security system built around the International Energy Agency and the strategic stockpiles, such as the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and similar reserves in Germany and

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rather with a struggle over the oil resources of the Persian Gulf, on which the world was again becoming heavily dependent. The Gulf Crisis thrust energy security back onto the political agenda, spurring governments to focus anew on ensuring supplies. It will serve to stimulate oil exploration and development around the world

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itself caught up in the competition of two great themes—energy and security, and energy and the environment. A far-reaching clash between anxieties about energy security and economic well-being on the one side, and fears about the environment on the other, seems all but inevitable. One point of convergence of

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