BBC Four - Storyville - The Curse of Oil - The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline part 3/6

Nick Fraser Storyville Series Editor Now that the oil price appears to be rising inexorably at the pumps, newspapers are full of gloomy predictions related to our increasing addiction to perishable reserves of oil. Bill Cran's series takes a somewhat different approach. We are in fact still amply supplied with oil on planet earth. The problem is that most of it lies in what we cosseted addicts regard as the wrong places. Getting enough oil to fill George Bush's SUV requires dealing with nasty governments or destroying the wilderness. But the relationship between oil companies, consumers and those who live where the oil is extracted is changing very rapidly. It is becoming possible for native populations to obstruct oil companies. Cran's series leaves one with the feeling that there are no easy answers - but that, given the hysteria surrounding the subject, is no bad thing. It's also ravishingly shot.

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[qatilepeshakar]

Azerbaijan has oil, but most of it is owned by western companies. Why is that? Many arabic countries own their own oil almost 100%, why is that? there's nothing to be proud of while this is happening. Only little of it is in Azerbaijani companies hands. If a man is proud of Azeri oil production it's okay but he's missing some parts of it. Muhahaha! Sorry but it's true :-)