SWARM: Nigerian Oil Disruption

A group called the Martyr's Brigade (a new group, splintered off of the NDPVF, that is part of the growing community of open source insurgency in Nigeria), claimed credit for a dynamite attack on a major Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. The blast killed 8 tribesman, living in a nearby fishing village, and has been burning out of control for days. While the destroyed pipeline carried only 7% (180,000 bpd) of the country's crude oil exports, the cascading effect (due the destruction of four lines and the shut down of a pumping station due to co-location and mutual vulnerability) of the disruption has halted the export 300,000 barrels of light crude for a week or more. This is the third major attack in the last months and in the case (which is on par with most systems disruption) the attackers escaped without incident or identification. NOTE: Nigeria supplies 14% of US crude oil imports.

The Martyr Brigade's statement: "Today, we took out 200,000 barrels of oil per day from Shells production this year. Since the produced oil cannot provide any economic and social benefit ...more of such sabotage shall be carried out with great pace... " NOTE: A second pipeline explosion has been reported, again in a remote area.

Comments

[dan]

Ouch. And this will neatly negate the impact of the re-opening of the crude pipeline from Iraq to Turkey, whose 300 kbpd had been offline for the last 2 months. One might almost get the impression that there was some "timing" going on!

[Jeremiah]

John:

Indulge me in a question: what's a person like me to do? Is this simply a situation where I'm relegated to the role of passive observer? Is it hopeless to want to effect this behavior for the better?

I presume that as a consumer of energy in the U.S., these events *should* impact me negatively in the form of higher energy prices (and all that follows with that.) Would I be at all correct in that presumption?

[John Robb]

J,

We are all just passive observers on this. It is history in motion.

John

[enigma_foundry@eml.cc]

"We are all just passive observers on this. It is history in motion."

No, No Not so at all.

The rise of sustainability as an economic imperative (rather than just a goal for certain projects funded by the NFP/NGO sector) is driven by market demand.

In the market many small scale actors function as automata, that is profit-seeking autonomous machines connected to a network. As those network connections change in cost and functionality, the profit seeking behavior is altered. As thinking people we can discern these patterns and stay a bit ahead of them, and to a certain extent shape them.

Concrete examples:

Buy a Prius, not an SUV.

Take Mass Transit to work

Invest in companies that are doing good work with Wind Turbines

[joe]

By observing carefully we can become experts, or a semblance thereof. The level of passivity is up to the informed individual.

The comment ref "timing" by Dan is right on, GG C2 is quite precise. Joe L

[Peter]

Sounds like the terrorists have heard about Peak Oil and are working hard to exacerbate the problem of dwindling supplies, while Mr & Mrs America, as usual, are glued to the TV watching Desperate Hausfraus.

Expect more of these attacks on our oil supplies.

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