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At the Shwe gas fields along the Burmese cost, estimated to be among the largest reserves in the world, two pipelines are to be constructed: one to China from the nearby port of Kyauk Phru, and the other to India from the port of Sittwe.
Some governments began to store oil in strategic petroleum reserves that could be used to for short periods in a crisis.
Rich countries also helped to create the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which coordinates policies (including strategic reserves) among consumer countries.
The world is not running out of oil, but two-thirds of oil reserves are located in the politically unstable Persian Gulf region.
Another new dimension of the energy security problem is the manner in which high prices and increased reserves have transferred power to energy producing countries.
State-owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.
In February 2015, the country was on the brink of a financial meltdown because its international currency reserves had slumped to a mere $5 billion, and its plummeting exchange rate was sending buyers into a panic.
The International Monetary Fund rescued the economy with a $5 billion disbursement, and Ukraine’s international reserves have now increased to $14 billion.
Gas extracted from hydrate reserves is exactly the same as the natural gas in use currently.
Only 6% of conventional reserves are in North America-roughly a ten-year supply for that continent.
There is a well-established method for estimating reserves yet to be found, and whether one examines currently proven reserves or future projections, one fact stands out: conventional gas supplies are distributed unevenly around the world-and in places far from most consumers.
Russia accounts for one-third of total reserves; the Persian Gulf states control a similar amount.
Blake Ridge alone contains six times more natural gas than all American conventional reserves combined.
But not all gas hydrate reserves are alike.
A reliable assessment of global hydrate reserves and extraction costs would be a very wise investment.
Such a step would trigger immense volatility throughout the international monetary system, throwing many economies – such as those that link their currencies to the US dollar or hold a large volume of dollar reserves – into crisis.
Similarly, Russia’s international currency reserves declined from $510 billion at the end of 2013 to a low of $356 billion in March 2015.
During the last few months Russia’s international reserves have grown sharply, as one would expect of a country with a staggering trade surplus of $33 billion this year and which is likely to surge to over $40 billion this year.
In the case of Mexico, for example, opening up the electricity industry, which Mexico's constitution reserves to the government, has become the structural reform of the day demanded by the West.
This time, the trigger was a confluence of several events: a currency crisis in Argentina, where the authorities stopped intervening in the forex markets to prevent the loss of foreign reserves; weaker economic data from China; and persistent political uncertainty and unrest in Turkey, Ukraine, and Thailand.
All have flexible exchange rates, a large war chest of reserves to shield against a run on their currencies and banks, and fewer currency mismatches (for example, heavy foreign-currency borrowing to finance investment in local-currency assets).
Many remain convinced that China’s government – which wields with the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserves and virtually unchecked authority – would be able to prevent a major financial crisis.
A current indicator is that the world’s central banks are holding an increasing share of their foreign-exchange reserves in euros rather than US dollars.
Even if a “global need” were recognized, SDR’s, as a component of countries’ official foreign-exchange reserves, should not be available for budgetary spending.
However, these reserves represent an important “hidden” asset that lends strength to the Fund’s balance sheet.
Finally, it is no longer appropriate to judge whether a country’s foreign-currency reserves are adequate based on how many months of imports they can cover.
Instead, the question to ask is whether the reserves can comfortably service the public and private sectors’ debt denominated in foreign currencies.
With China running a seemingly perpetual external surplus, foreign-currency reserves have continued to mount even during the global economic crisis, with net growth reaching $140 billion in the third quarter of this year.
The most basic reason for the rise in natural resource prices is strong growth, especially in China and India, which is hitting against the physical limits of land, timber, oil and gas reserves, and water supplies.
Then, crisis erupted in May, when the country ran low on foreign-currency reserves and traders could not purchase the dollars they needed.
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