Traduction de «Exploration des ressources pétrolières » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Notes that various estimates of shale gas resources in Europe have been made, among them those by the US Energy Information Administration and by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and that several Member States have reserves; recognises that although these estimates are, by their very nature, imprecise they point to the existence of a potentially considerable indigenous energy resource, not all of which, however, might be economically viable in extraction terms; notes also that some Member States have oil shale reserves and ...[+++]that other sources of unconventional oil have yet to be explored on a wider scale;

11. Insists on the respect of the sovereignty of the peoples of Sudan and South Sudan over their natural resources; stresses that democratic governance and just access to natural resources will be essential for the prosperity and social and economic development of the region in favour of the population; emphasises that the exploration of the natural resources needs state regulation and transparency; calls for negotiations over the fair and mutually accepted sharing of the revenues from the oil exploitation;

10. Insists on the respect of the sovereignty of the people of North and South Soudan over their natural resources; stresses that governance and just access to natural resources will be essential for the prosperity of the region; emphasises that the exploration of the natural resources needs state regulation and transparency, in particular as concerned;

11. Underlines the unacceptable situation in many oil- and gas-producing States in terms of the lack of transparency as to how oil and gas resources are used and the lack of development benefits from such energy resource riches; calls therefore for bold initiatives by the EU to move good governance to the centre of energy security; calls for transparency in the management of extractive industries such as oil production on the part of both governments and companies, and demands that full disclosure of how oil and gas revenues are used be made a precondition for the importing of these resources into the EU; moreover, calls for clever sa ...[+++]nctions against corrupt practices in oil and gas producing States;

As regards oil stocks, the EU is, to some degree, dependent on oil resources imported from Non-EU Member Countries.

We know only too well that oil stirs up conflicts, excites envy, enables people to buy weapons and also leads to standstills, particularly on the part of China - which has very important interests in that area – and of all those, and the superpowers in particular, that are now searching ever more feverishly for oil resources to which they can have easy access.