Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“the New World had become the oil granary for the Old; altogether, the United States was to satisfy 80 percent of the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“Oil men, like producers of other raw materials, could not continue to sell their products below cost...For prices to be raised, production… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record,” — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1” — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
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