El nacionalismo petrolero, la industria del petróleo y la seguridad energética

En este ARI se evalúan las consecuencias del reciente resurgimiento del nacionalismo petrolero para las empresas petroleras internacionales y nacionales y para la seguridad energética. El propósito del presente documento es evaluar las consecuencias del reciente resurgimiento del nacionalismo petrolero para las empresas petroleras internacionales y nacionales y para la seguridad energética. Comenzaremos con un análisis del fenómeno del nacionalismo petrolero, su naturaleza y sus causas. Posteriormente pasaremos a describir la estructura de la industria del petróleo y el comportamiento, incluidos los puntos fuertes y débiles, de sus elementos constitutivos, las empresas petroleras nacionales e internacionales. Ello nos permitirá discutir, en este contexto, el impacto del nacionalismo petrolero en el sector. Más adelante abordaremos la cuestión, compleja y a menudo mal entendida, de la seguridad del suministro energético. ¿Es el nacionalismo petrolero otra nueva amenaza? Y, de ser así, ¿hay alguna forma de atenuarla o eliminarla

‘Square plans for a circular journey: remarks on the “decolonial” critique of art history’. Review of: Carolin Overhoff Ferreira, Decolonial Introduction to the Theory, History and Criticism of the Arts, Lulu.com, 2019, ISBN 9780244195182 paperback, ISBN 9780244795177 e-book, 356 pages, 93 b/w ill.

The volume explores the Eurocentrism that has characterised practices and discourses related to Western art phenomena from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the critical, aesthetic and ideological implications of such a pervasively Eurocentric horizon of references. Through the adoption of alternative parameters of interpretation, like the concepts of ‘third space’ and ‘a-historicity’, the book aims to promote a ‘decolonial perspective’ in the study of art, reassessing well-consolidated narratives that reflect, first and foremost, a hegemonic cultural system directly derived from Europe-centered experiences both in the production as well as in the analysis of artworks

Benedetto Croce, ‘A Theory of the Macchia’ trans. Ricardo De Mambro Santos

Originally written in 1905 and included in the volume Problemi di estetica (Questions on Aesthetics), first published in 1910, this short yet dense essay by Benedetto Croce explores the aesthetic and critical implications of the concept of macchia. The starting point of this philosophical investigation is offered by a little-known volume by Vittorio Imbriani, entitled La quinta promotrice (The Promoting Scene), printed in Naples in 1869, in which the author applies the notion of macchia within the emerging ambit of Art Criticism, in reference to the works of Domenico Morelli and, in particular, his Deposition of Christ, of which he provides a detailed, highly evocative and poetic ekphrasis. Defined by Imbriani as the propulsive force, the preliminary idea of every pictorial creation, the concept of macchia will be associated by Croce with one of the foundational notions of his own Aesthetics and set genealogically in relation with the paradigm of intuition as the truly distinctive quality of art in general, beyond any possible differentiation among the particular arts

Econometric Modelling of World Oil Supplies: Terminal Price and the Time to Depletion

This paper develops a novel approach by which to identify the price of oil at the time of depletion; the so-called "terminal price" of oil. It is shown that while the terminal price is independent of both GDP growth and the price elasticity of energy demand, it is dependent on the world real interest rate and the total life-time stock of oil resources, as well as on the marginal extraction and scarcity cost parameters. The theoretical predictions of this model are evaluated using data on the cost of extraction, cumulative production, and proven reserves. The predicted terminal prices seem sensible for a range of parameters and variables, as illustrated by the sensitivity analysis. Using the terminal price of oil, we calculate the time to depletion, and determine the extraction and price profiles over the life-time of the resource. The extraction profiles generated seem to be in line with the actual production and the predicted prices are generally in line with those currently observed.and oil extraction costs

Projects of devotion : energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 715146. The authors also acknowledge the funding received to carry out this research from the Leverhulme Trust (ECF‐2013‐177) and the British Academy (EN150010).This article considers how people working in the oil and gas industry in Colorado perceive their involvement in energy exploration in relation to broader understandings of devotion, compassion, and outreach. I argue that although their energy projects may appear to merely echo companies’ formal promotional pitches, the oil field and corporate actors’ own moral ambitions reveal more-than-human cosmoeconomic visions of oil’s potentiality. This article thus demonstrates how multiple and diverging ethical registers intersect and inform the valuation of oil.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

A dialogue between oil producers and consumers: the why and the how: OIES paper: SP2

The notion that a dialogue, leading to co-operation between oil-producing and oil consuming countries, may either avert oil shocks and excessive price instability or, at least, mitigate their adverse effects emerged early on in the 1970s. The very few observers who predicted the 1973 oil shock a year or two before its occurrence also sensed that the impending crisis would not be rapidly solved by smooth market responses and short-term economic adjustments. In their judgment the dramatic situation that was going to develop with dire consequences for the welfare of oil-importing nations called for a political solution