Oil Policy: Resources

RESOURCES

Use these as a starting point, then see what else you can find. Use a search engine such as Yahoo! or Google and type in the name of your country and the "petroleum" or "environment" or whatever else you are researching.

Nigeria
- U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration
  - Country Brief: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/nigeria.html
  - Environmental Issues: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/nigenv.html
  - Sub-Saharan Africa Env. Issues: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/subafricaenv.html
  - "Area to Watch": http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hot.html#NIG
- CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ni.html
- Library of Congress, Country Study: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ngtoc.html
- U.S. State Department, background notes: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2836.htm
- BBC Country Profile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064557.stm
- Yahoo! News: http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Nigeria
- MBendi Profile: http://mbendi.co.za/indy/oilg/af/ng/p0005.htm

Saudi Arabia
- U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration
  - Country Brief: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/saudi.html
  - Environmental Issues: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/saudenv.html
  - "Area to Watch": http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hot.html#RUSS
  - Persian Gulf Oil Export Fact Sheet: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/pgulf.html
- CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sa.html
- Library of Congress, Country Study: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/satoc.html
- U.S. State Department, background notes: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3584.htm
- BBC Country Profile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/791936.stm
- Yahoo! News:http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Saudi_Arabia

Venezuela
- U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration
  - Country Brief: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/venez.html
  - Environmental Issues: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/venenv.html
  - "Area to Watch": http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hot.html#VEN
  - Energy in the Americas: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/archives/theamericas/theamericas.html
  - report on impact of loss of Venezuelan production
- CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ve.html
- Library of Congress, Country Study: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/vetoc.html
- U.S. State Department, background notes: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm
- BBC Country Profile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1229345.stm
- Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=venezuela

OTHER LINKS: (feel free to search for more)

Petroleum Market
- U.S. Oil Imports by Country of Origin (use period/unit pull-down menu to change view)
- World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 - 2003 (Shows key events in relation to the price of oil.)
- World Energy "Areas to Watch": http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hot.html
- World Oil Production 1980-2001 (graphs): http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/Sup_image_worldprod.htm
- Petroleum Consumption: table | graph
- Petroleum Production: table A (OPEC) | table B (non-OPEC) | graph
- OPEC
  - USDOE, EIA Brief: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/opec.html
  - Production: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/3atab.html
  - Oil Export Revenues: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/opecrev.html
- U.S. Short-term Energy Outlook: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html
- Alaska Oil: http://energy.usgs.gov/alaska.html
  - ANWR in Black & White (note: the trans-Alaska pipeline's max. capacity is 2 million barrels/day, how does that compare to the daily supply and demand numbers found above?)
World & Environment
- National Council for Science and the Environment: http://www.ncseonline.org/
  - Congressional Research Service Reports: http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/
- International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: http://www.iucn.org/
- Biodiversity Economics Library: http://biodiversityeconomics.org/index.htm
- The Pew Research Center (check out the "Global Attitudes Project"): http://people-press.org/
- National Geographic Map Machine: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/
- U.S. CIA World Fact Book: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
- U.S. Library of Congress, country studies: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
- U.S. State Department, background notes: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
- BBC Country Profiles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

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