Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power — Reuters
Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country's grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.
So….Friendly takeover and regime change like Venezuela/Iran, or friendly like Greenland/Canada 51st state? You’d almost think Cuba has oil except that it’s having the life choked out of it by
In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the North Cuba Basin had a 95% probability of having at least 1.1 billion barrels, and a 5% chance of having 9.4 billion barrels; the most likely volume was 4.6 billion barrels of undiscovered oil.
In October 2008, the Cuban government announced that its likely oil reserves were more than double that which was previously believed, and its total reserves were probably 20 billion barrels, mostly in the offshore. If the estimates are accurate, then Cuba would have one of the top 20 reserves in the world.
Keeping an eye on the Cuban part of the GOM - GeoExpro
The island of Cuba has a rich history of oil and gas exploration, dating back as far as the 1860s when commercial discoveries of heavy oil were found. The first significant discovery in Cuba was light oil in the Motembo oil field in 1881. The 1950s saw a boom following the discovery of the...
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Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean conventional resources of 4,098 million barrels of oil and 13,268 billion cubic feet of gas in the North Cuba area....
. Even if it turns out to only be half of that though, this island would still have reserves as large as Mexico’s.
Humanitarian pressures grow as Cuba continues to struggle with energy shortages
Cuba’s humanitarian situation is worsening as fuel shortages deepen nearly a month after Washington took measures to block oil supplies from entering the Caribbean nation, a senior UN official warned on Wednesday.
