All this will require China and the US to develop a more explicit understanding and a framework for collaboration on oil security.
Last month, the Energy Security Leadership Council detailed an oil security plan to improve the U.S. economy, promote fiscal stability, and protect national security.
Tensions over oil and security brought the two sides to the brink of war last April.
Mr Allawi is tightening his hold on government, setting up committees for oil, security and media policy to ensure the key portfolios remain in his, not his ministers', hands.
We know that our dependence on foreign oil endangers our security and our economy.
The problems of climate change, peak oil, food security and the demand for economic and political justice require us to deploy all our resources together in order to create a resilient world in which our grandchildren can thrive.
Mr. LASORDA: Well, ethanol is one, because we see ethanol as an option from oil independence and national security play.
However, Saudi intelligence has been successful in subduing al Qaeda cells in the kingdom in recent years, while security at oil refineries and pumping stations has been reinforced.
The presence of the British trade envoy Lord Risby and the Algerian energy minister is a reminder that oil and not just security is high on the agenda here.
Dorner retired on February 1 as a lieutenant, having worked with mobile inshore undersea warfare units and having provided security on oil platforms in Iraq, according to Pentagon records.
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He also provided security on oil platforms in Iraq.
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Rising demand for energy, the construction of new facilities and physical and cyber threats to these installations have led to growth in the oil and gas infrastructure security market, the report said.
In recent weeks, he has been mediating in the dispute triggered by the government's attempt to take greater control of security in oil-rich territory around the city of Kirkuk, which is claimed by both Arabs and Kurds.
Under the plan, the Iraqi government must meet benchmarks, including providing for security and allocating oil revenues.
They put tax breaks for drug companies and oil companies ahead of retirement security for hardworking Americans.
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As a result, the security of Gulf oil states became of paramount concern to U.S. military planners.
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The Libyan government said Wednesday it was boosting security at its oil fields in response to the Algerian attack.
"It is out of the question to allow foreign security forces to handle the security of our oil facilities, " he said, quoted by Algeria's APS news agency.
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In recent years the movement has become increasingly popular as rising food prices, fears about food security, peak oil, climate change and a desire to reconnect with agriculture become more widespread.
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Besides, the oil, which was his security, was inexhaustible.
The Gulf is left holding the incremental oil baby, with Washington and Beijing not merely unwilling to underwrite security arrangements, but inadvertently working towards an oil market based on volumes, not price.
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So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.
"China knows it has an issue with energy security, in particular oil, " says Mr Froggatt.
But fragile politics, dodgy security and a battered oil infrastructure are deterring the investment required to boost supplies.
When anyone wanted to know what had happened to Angola's oil revenues, ministers cited national security and kept mum.
Vehement cries to shut these down are met with equally vehement cries of the critical importance of this oil to our economy and energy security.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, also called for an "Apollo program" and said reducing foreign dependence on oil was intrinsically tied to national security.
He has tried to convince the Obama administration that one of the keys to America's energy security lies in the oil and gas in the deep waters of the Gulf.
The energy minister also pledged to boost security at energy installations but insisted it was "out of the question to allow foreign security forces to handle the security" of Algerian oil facilities.
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