By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Wed, 2007-06-20 17:12
The book is clearly focussed on oil and natural gas. Furfari explains that geopolitics have all to do with fossil fuels, because of the instability of the oil producing regions and the growing energy needs of developed and developing nations.
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By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Wed, 2007-06-20 17:07
Samuele Furfari states in his book that ‘Men are the real resource.’ When questioned about this, he explains that at the beginning of the 19th century, oil reserves were zero, because no one used oil and therefore there was no market for oil. When he started work on his PhD in 1978, his teachers used to say that there was only enough oil to last another thirty years at most. Today, thirty years later, the general consensus is that we still have enough oil for another forty or fifty years.
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By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Wed, 2007-06-20 17:04
The Leonardo ENERGY Program launches its interview program with energy experts by interviewing Samuele Furfari on Geopolitics of Energy. The following article is the result of the discussion and provides a brief overview on current energy issues. The article is published as an eBook so you can scroll the different pages using the titles below.
Samuele Furfari has been an official of the European Commission for over 25 years. He has built his entire career on the energy sector, working in the Directorate General for Energy and Transport. There, he participated in the development of the European energy policy and its application at community level, particularly through the creation of local and regional energy agencies and a number of initiatives like the Intelligent Energy Executive Agency and the ManagEnergy Program.
Furfari also teaches Geopolitics of Energy at the Free University of Brussels, where he graduated as a Chemical Engineer and subsequently obtained a PhD in coal gasification. He was born in 1953, has Italian nationality, and is married and the father of two children.
Samuele Furfari has recently published Le Monde et L’Energie. Enjeux Politiques. 1. Les clefs pour comprendre. This book was written over a five year period and is the first of a two volume series covering the geopolitics of energy. Furfari’s intent is to help people understand and form their own opinion about energy issues; hopefully one that is free from political correctness and media bias. He states his mission very clearly in the very last paragraph of this first volume:
‘Once you open your newspapers or you listen to information relating to energy, the oil price, the huge investments, the international relations in the energy sector, the protection of the environment, and you are capable of having your own opinion without letting yourself be influenced by ‘politically correct’ notions, I will have achieved my goal of helping you understand the geopolitics of energy.’
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