Chapter
Table 1.1 Top fifteen countries with largest proven oil reserves, 2008
Table 1.2 Top fifteen countries with largest oil consumption, 2008
Table 2.1 Projected oil consumption growth for selected Asian countries, 2008–2018
Table 2.2 Ten largest independent oil tanker companies, 2009
Table 2.3 Ten largest oil company/state-owned oil tanker companies, 2009
Table 2.4 Major oil terminals in operation in China, 2009
Table 3.1 Sources of oil imports for Japan, China and India, 2008
Table 5.1 Pirate attacks on energy vessels: a new wave
Table 6.1 Officer class: top ten countries of origin of officers
Table 7.1 Leading twenty shipping registers globally by tonnage, 2008
Table 7.2 Leading twenty actual ship owners by country by percentage of world fleet, 2008
Table 7.3 Where to find a flag of convenience
Table 8.1 CO2 emissions per km from shipping, aircraft and road haulage
Table 8.2 Comparative air emissions by major modes of commercial transportation
Table 9.1 Major pipeline countries, 2009
Box 1.1 World Without Oil: Possible Scenarios for East Asia
Box 2.1 The Birth of the Supertanker: A Brief History
Box 4.1 Suez: Bringing Continents Together
Box 4.2 Bosporus and Panama
Box 4.3 A Fantasy that Might Become a Reality: The Kra Canal
Box 4.4 A New SLOC? Awakening the Arctic
Box 5.1 The Rise of the Pirates: Areas Prone to Piracy
Box 6.1 Shipping’s Bill of Rights
Box 7.1 A Very Dirty Flag: Cambodia
Box 8.1 Relocating the Sea: Ballast Water
Box 8.2 Where Tankers Go to Die
Box 9.1 China’s Growing Pipeline Network
Fig. 2.1 The Jahre Viking, formerly the Seawise Giant
Fig. 3.1 Heading east – the critical sea lanes of communication
Fig. 4.1 A tanker queuing to transit the Suez Canal
Fig. 4.2 Gwadar Port (Pakistan) under construction
Fig. 5.2 Somali pirates captured off the Horn of Africa
Fig. 6.1 An Indian officer at work on a VLCC
Fig. 6.2 The Hebei Spirit spewing oil off the coast of Korea
Fig. 8.1 A tanker's funnel belches emissions
Fig. 8.2 SkySails kite-propelled tanker
Fig. 8.3 Shipbreaking yard
Introduction | Oil on Water
Friday 3 October 2008 – The Bund, Shanghai
Sunday 5 October 2008 – The Port of Singapore
The Imperative of Strategic Reserves
Oil and the Getting of It
Table 1.1 Top fifteen countries with largest proven oil reserves, 2008
The Crucial Role of East Asia
Table 1.2 Top fifteen countries with largest oil consumption, 2008
Box 1.1 World Without Oil: Possible Scenarios for East Asia
Monday 6 October 2008 – The Singapore Straits
A Shifting Centre of Gravity
Table 2.1 Projected oil consumption growth for selected Asian countries, 2008–2018
Table 2.2 Ten largest independent oil tanker companies, 2009
Table 2.3 Ten largest oil company/state-owned oil tanker companies, 2009
Building Tankers: from the Clyde to Korea
Box 2.1 The Birth of the Supertanker: A Brief History
Fig. 2.1 The Jahre Viking, formerly the Seawise Giant
Sino Shipbuilding Supremacy
Table 2.4 Major oil terminals in operation in China, 2009
Tuesday 15 July 2008 – Fujairah Port, United Arab Emirates
Fig. 3.1 Heading east – the critical sea lanes of communication
The Necessity of Oil Supply
The New International Web of Oil-based Relationships
Table 3.1 Sources of oil imports for Japan, China and India, 2008
The Resurrection of the Silk Road
Scouring the Globe for Black Gold
Wednesday 22 July 2009 – Breakfast at the Grand Hotel Europe, St Petersburg
Addiction Requires a Reliable Supply
Box 4.1 Suez: Bringing Continents Together
Fig. 4.1 A tanker queuing to transit the Suez Canal
The US Takes Control of the High Seas
Box 4.2 Bosporus and Panama
China’s Harmonious Rise and the ‘Malacca Dilemma’
Fig. 4.2 Gwadar Port (Pakistan) under construction
Box 4.3 A Fantasy that Might Become a Reality: The Kra Canal
Box 4.4 A New SLOC? Awakening the Arctic
5 | Piracy: The Nebulous Threat
Monday 6 October 2008 – The Riau Islands, Indonesia
Box 5.1 The Rise of the Pirates: Areas Prone to Piracy
Bad Business on the High Seas
Fig. 5.2 Somali pirates captured off the Horn of Africa
The Global Response to the Resurgence of Piracy in Africa: One Year of Activity
The East Asian Energy Angle
Table 5.1 Pirate attacks on energy vessels: a new wave
Where Do We Go from Here?
6 | The Criminalisation of Crews
28 May 2008 – Taean County, Republic of Korea
Fig. 6.1 An Indian officer at work on a VLCC
Fig. 6.2 The Hebei Spirit spewing oil off the coast of Korea
Box 6.1 Shipping’s Bill of Rights
An Unenticing Career Option
Table 6.1 Officer class: top ten countries of origin of officers
The Epicentre of World Crewing
28 May 2009 – Ulan Bator, Mongolia
The Beginning of the Open Registry System
Table 7.1 Leading twenty shipping registers globally by tonnage, 2008
Table 7.2 Leading twenty actual ship owners by country by percentage of world fleet, 2008
Table 7.3 Where to find a flag of convenience
Box 7.1 A Very Dirty Flag: Cambodia
Tuesday 7 October 2008 – The South China Sea, off the coast of Vietnam
Fig. 8.1 A tanker's funnel belches emissions
Stratospherically Worse than Aviation
Table 8.1 CO2 emissions per km from shipping, aircraft and road haulage
Table 8.2 Comparative air emissions by major modes of commercial transportation
Dithering while the World Rages
Solutions: Greenwashing or Not?
Fig. 8.2 SkySails kite-propelled tanker
Box 8.1 Relocating the Sea: Ballast Water
Box 8.2 Where Tankers Go to Die
Fig. 8.3 Shipbreaking yard
9 | The Politics of Pipelines
22 April 2006 – Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China
Pipelines: An Alternative Way to Achieve Energy Security?
Table 9.1 Major pipeline countries, 2009
Box 9.1 China’s Growing Pipeline Network
Sea-Lane and Pipeline Combos
Conclusion | The Future of Moving Oil
Saturday 11 October 2008 – Mailiao Port, Taiwan
Table 10.1 China’s outbound investment in energy and power internationally, 2003–2009
The Future is a Volume Game
Oil on Water
：Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China
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