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Oil "news" Suez Canal

1942: Capture of the channel and the disruption of oil supply of the UK was one of the main objectives of German and Italian troops in North Africa. Then plan a massive attack on oil fields in Aravyiskom poloustrove. At that time, almost all the British demands in oil were provided from the Middle-Middle East, transported mainly through Suektsky channel. But the German and Italian troops were stopped at El Alamein (west of Cairo), allies of the USSR. But Egypt refused to declare war on Germany and Italy.

1955: The Government of GA Nasser nationalizes this artery, controlled British-French administration. At that time, over 70% of the oil flowing to Western Europe, transported through this channel.

1956: Britain, France and Israel launched a joint military operation to seize the canal and overthrow Nasser, GA. But an ultimatum against them by Moscow, forced the aggressors to withdraw troops from the Canal Zone and Sinai Peninsula. Egypt has temporarily stopped the oil transit to western countries through the channel.

1967: Israel captured the eastern bank of the canal and the entire Sinai peninsula. Spiked oil prices shipping on this artery was paralyzed until mid-1970's.

1973 g.Egipet captured a number of areas on the east bank of the canal, Israel has put forward a draft of the parallel channel and oil in their territory (Eilat-Ashdod). Arab and most other OPEC announced an oil embargo the United States and its allies: it had acted before 1975. This led to bepretsedentnomu rise in the cost of oil. But the USSR did not support the "Arab embargo, increasing the export of oil to the West by rising prices (from the" oil "socialist countries, the embargo supported only Albania).

second half of 1970: US-Egyptian-Israeli talks led to the gradual withdrawal of Israel from Sinai vyosk and from the Canal Zone. After that, it was reopened (in the late 70's) navigation along this artery. Commercial development of oil reserves of the Sinai.