Monday, June 30, 2008  Preparing the Battlefield: Iran  In light
of Seymour Hersh's latest article, "Preparing the Battlefield,"
about stepped-up US involvement in Iran, here's post I wrote
over 2 years ago on the topic:  Keep an Eye on Khuzestan  And a
graphic of the oil resources and ethnic makeup of the region
worth a thousand words:  Rhizome Platform Design
Monday, June 23, 2008  Nigeria - Significance of the Bonga
Attack  NOTE: An updated version of this post is now available
at The Oil Drum.  Militant attacks have shut in as much as
345,000 barrels per day of Nigerian oil production in the past
few days. One of the attacks was against a facility 120 km
offshore, demonstrating a significant new militant naval
capability. This may prove to be an extremely important
development: 1.25 million barrels per day of new offshore
production is scheduled to come online in Nigeria over the next
6 years, and all of it was previously believed to be beyond the
reach of militants.  Shell's offshore Bonga fp