FACTUAL
Big Oil, an Energy Pearl Harbor
Monday 18 September 2006 9:03-9:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Monday 18 September 2006 21:30-22:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Oil has meant mastery throughout the 20th Century. It is the world's biggest and most pervasive business, and 'the' strategic commodity on the world stage.
Is the oil market like a ship riding too high in the water? It would take very little to destabilise the world's oil supplies, but who would be the winners - and losers? Tom Mangold finds out just what the risks really are.