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Figure 4.10: Major <strong>World</strong> Oil Supply Disruptions*<br />

Sep 2005<br />

Mar - Dec 2003<br />

Dec 2002 - Mar 2003<br />

Jun - Jul 2001<br />

Aug 1990 - Jan 1991<br />

Oct 1980 - Jan 1981<br />

Nov 1978 - Apr 1979<br />

Oct 1973 - Mar 1974<br />

Jun - Aug 1967<br />

Hurricanes<br />

Katrina and Rita<br />

War in Iraq<br />

Venezuelan strike<br />

1.5<br />

Iraq oil export suspension<br />

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait<br />

Outbreak of Iran-Iraq War<br />

Iranian Revolution<br />

2.1<br />

2.0<br />

2.3<br />

2.6<br />

Arab-Israeli War and Arab oil embargo<br />

Six Day War<br />

4.1<br />

4.3<br />

4.3<br />

5.6<br />

0 1 2 3 4 5 6<br />

gross initial loss of supply (mb/d)<br />

* Include all disruptions involving a gross supply loss of at least 1.5 mb/d.<br />

Sources: US Department of <strong>Energy</strong> and IEA Secretariat.<br />

The sudden loss of a significant part of the region’s production and export<br />

capacity through terrorism or deliberate political acts by producing countries<br />

cannot be ruled out.<br />

The increased dependence of China – together with that of Europe – on Russian<br />

gas gives rise to another issue of energy security. Gas imports from Russia would<br />

contribute to China’s energy-supply diversity and Russia has been a reliable<br />

supplier of gas to Europe for several decades. Yet the temporary cut-off of Russian<br />

supplies to central and western European customers in January 2006 that resulted<br />

from a dispute with Ukraine has drawn attention to the risks associated with<br />

political control of strategic pipeline routes. Moreover, there are doubts about the<br />

adequacy of investment in Russia’s gas industry to meet rising domestic and export<br />

demand, exacerbated by the lack of transparency over future capacity plans. There<br />

are also concerns about the possibility of Russia formally co-ordinating its<br />

investment and production plans with other gas-exporting countries in order to<br />

support prices in a similar way to OPEC. Russia has indicated that it is interested<br />

in pursuing the idea of more closely co-ordinating export pricing and even creating<br />

a formal cartel. It signed a memorandum of understanding on upstream cooperation<br />

with Algeria in 2006. Although a meeting of the Gas Exporting<br />

Countries Forum in April <strong>2007</strong>, which brought together government<br />

representatives of most gas exporters, failed to reach agreement on such a move,<br />

concerns remain about gas pricing in the future (Box 4.1). Faster growth in<br />

Chinese and Indian gas demand could stimulate further concentration of the<br />

186 <strong>World</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Outlook</strong> <strong>2007</strong> - GLOBAL ENERGY PROSPECTS: IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA & INDIA

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