How Secure Are Middle East Oil Supplies?

摘要

(Following are excerpts from a paper published in September 2007 by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.Notes were not reproduced).Although disruptions may occur at any segment of the oil supply chain due to a wide range of factors,it is the politically-driven threats to oil supplies that have dominated the energy security debate and the imagination of policy makers.In this debate,the Middle East features prominently.The reliance on Middle East imports still raises a number of concerns.