The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10

Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. Even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow. It is true that technology, privatisation and the opening up of a number of countries have created many new opportunities in areas around the world for various oil companies, but looking back to the early 1990's, expectations were that significant amounts of the world's new resources would come from such areas as the former Soviet Union and from China. Of course that didn't turn out quite as expected. Instead it turned out to be deep water successes that yielded the bonanza of the 1990's» «The Emerging Russian Giant Plays its Cards Strategically By F. William Engdahl» world.ru/article/105409 6 Аналогию с амебой, червем и птицей подарил мне Игорь Бощенко, создатель теории развития систем управления. См. нашу с ним книгу «Будущее человечества». 7 И такие люди выступают ныне идеологами нашей «патриотической власти» ...»