viernes, 7 de diciembre de 2012

The World's Fast-Changing Oil Map: the South China Sea

David Lee Smith
Motley Fool

Our current world tour has taken us to such locations as South America and Africa, oil-producing venues where -- along, of course, with the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East -- capability exists for at least minor political and geopolitical skirmishes.

We'll now head for the South China Sea, which just this week is being hit by escalating tensions among those countries that claim ownership of all or part of it. From an energy perspective, however, the difference between the Asian body of water and our previous stops involves sizable discoveries in the latter, while the former is still generally on the proverbial come.