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"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

 "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

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 (Sep11th), one has to examine the different
positions of ChevronTexaco, BP Amoco, SOCAR, Exxon Mobil, British Gas,
Agip, ConocoPhillips/Phillips Petroleum the Norwegian Statoil,
TotalFinaElf, Russia LukOil/LukArco, GasProm of Ex-Premier
Tschernomyrdin, KazMunaiGaz 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...:"

 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 ArthurAndersen.
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.
CaymanIslands

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...

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 (-

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

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http://911review.org/Alex/Iran-Contra_911.html
http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/YemenOil.shtml
http://911review.org/brad.com/world/Great_Satan.html
http://911review.org/news/oil_prices.html
http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/TruthOnOilStrategy.shtml
http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Woolsey,James.shtml
http://911review.org/Alex/Khashoggi-30_NIMA.html