{"id":2948,"date":"2014-12-13T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2014-12-13T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:50:11","slug":"this-week-in-energy-low-oil-prices-not-the-only-threat-to-us-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Energy: Low Oil Prices Not The Only Threat To US Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Week In Energy: Low Oil Prices Not The Only Threat To US Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Urgent Note<\/strong>: This week, our analyst Dan Dicker provides key insights into the companies now considered to be the walking dead in the energy space. The debt burdens of these companies make for a bleak outlook, and this information is need-to-know for all investors, so they can spot the trend that is taking these companies down and protect their own investment portfolios accordingly. Dan\u2019s report is a must read for those interested in the bigger picture of the low oil price situation and you can receive it for Free \u2013\u00a0just click here and start a 30 day free trial to Oilprice Premium.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

With the war against the Islamic State (IS) raging in Iraq and Syria, and getting too close to Turkey for comfort, experts in the US are wondering if the next terrorist attack on American soil might target the 182,000\u00a0miles of pipelines<\/a>\u00a0carrying oil, chemicals and other hazardous liquids, 325,000 miles of bulk natural gas pipelines, and 2.2 million miles of natural gas distribution pipelines.<\/p>\n

These millions of miles of critical infrastructure make for easy targets. All it requires is that the digital intruder gets close enough to privately owned pipelines that the government doesn\u2019t have much control over.<\/p>\n

As noted earlier this week by\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, a 2008 attack on Turkey\u2019s portion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)\u00a0pipeline<\/a>\u00a0is now being viewed as a model for future calamity in the US. The pipeline\u2014majority owned by BP\u2014saw digital intruders inject malicious software into the control network and then tamper with the system to cause an explosion. It\u2019s only now that investigators realize that it was a cyberattack.<\/p>\n

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