Saturday’s attack on the Saudi oil and gas processing station in Abqaiq hit its stabilization facility: The stabilization process is a form of partial distillation
Day: September 16, 2019
Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on Abqaiq
The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses.
The Strange Case of the Burning Saudi Refineries
The September 2019 attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil production by up to 60% and has thrown the world into chaos was not a surprise.
Russia’s “Multilateral Strategic Stability” Proposal Could Bring “Balance” to South Asia
Russian media reported that the “multilateral strategic stability” proposal by some of the country’s leading experts to actively prevent a military confrontation between nuclear powers
Hong Kong and the Future of China
Something didn’t quite add up. This past weekend, protestors were rallying outside the American embassy in Hong Kong. They were waving American flags. They were
The Pompeo Doctrine : How to Seize the Arctic’s Resources
Donald Trump got the headlines as usual — but don’t be fooled. It wasn’t Trumpism in action this August, but what we should all now
Binyamin Netanyahu’s World War
On 10 September Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed he’d identified a third secret nuclear site in Iran where Iran allegedly “conducted experiments to develop nuclear weapons”. Yet,
The Devolution of US-Russia Relations
In 2014, we saw violent U.S.-supported regime change and civil war in Ukraine. In February, after months of increasing tension from the anti-Russian protest movement’s
