OIL POLICY

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.

OTHER LINKS:  (feel free to search for more)

• Petroleum Market
  • U.S. Oil Imports by Country of Origin: last month
  • 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/security/hot.html
  • World Oil Production 1980-2001 (graphs): table | graph
  • Oil Market Basics: report
  • Long-term World Oil Supplies: report
  • Petroleum Consumption: table | graph
  • U.S. Imports: OPEC | non-OPEC | graphs
  • Petroleum Production: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index.cfm (tables of top producers and consumers on right side of window)
  • U.S. Short-term Energy Outlook: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html
  • U.S. Energy Resources: http://energy.usgs.gov/regional.html
  • Alaska Oil: http://energy.usgs.gov/alaska/
    • 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://www.biodiversityeconomics.org/ (try the library link)
  • 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: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
  • 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