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2009-07-03 Russia expects to earn 57 billion rubles ($1.8 bln) annually from oil exports to China.
-- According to Sergei Shmatko, Energy Minister of Russia
2009-06-20 Russia's Lukoil has broken into Western Europe's most lucrative oil refining and retail market by taking over Dow Chemicals' 45 percent stake in Total Raffinaderij Nederland (TRN).
2009-06-01 Iran plans to drill an exploratory well in the Caspian Sea as the preliminary step for the construction of the Iran-Alborz semisubmersible drilling rig.
-- According to Gholam-Hossein Nozari, Oil Minister of Iran
2009-02-20 On February 20, the Russian Federation Security Council and the State Council will approve a new national security strategy to go through 2020. Without saying the "United States," the draft document clearly identifies the United States as Russia's primary rival for the next decade. It goes on to say that the primary focus of the struggle will be for hydrocarbons in some very specific areas. The Middle East and Central Asia are mentioned specifically. In these areas, according to the document, the struggle could develop into a military confrontation.
2008-12-07 "We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let them make a determination in terms of whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way.
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We need to ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy with Iran, making very clear to them that their development of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable, that their funding of terrorist organizations, their threats against Israel are contrary to everything we believe in.
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In terms of carrots, we can provide economic incentives that would be helpful to a country that despite being a net oil producer is under enormous strain, huge inflation, lot of employment problems.
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But we also have to focus on the sticks. In order for us to change Iran's behavior we may have to tighten up those sanctions."
-- Barack Obama, US President-elect, NBC's "Meet the Press" program
2008-10-28 In Sudan, four of the nine kidnapped Chinese workers in Sudan (2008-10-18) had been killed.
Four others were rescued and one was still missing
-- According to Chinese Foreign Ministry
2008-10-18 in Sudan, nine Chinese workers from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) were kidnapped in an oil field near the western Sudanese region of Darfur
2008-10 Russia and China reached an agreement to build a Chinese leg of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline.
2008-10 The more oil and natural gas supply Russia controls, the more it can coerce Europe by threatening to shut off their power.
2008-10 NATO needs to defend Georgia's gas and oil pipelines.

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