Editing Petroleum (section)

=== Conflict ===
{{Main|oil war|Petro-aggression}}
Petroleum production has been linked with conflict for many years, leading to thousands of deaths.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lujala |first=Päivi |date=2009 |title=Deadly Combat over Natural Resources: Gems, Petroleum, Drugs, and the Severity of Armed Civil Conflict |journal=The Journal of Conflict Resolution |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=50–71 |doi=10.1177/0022002708327644 |issn=0022-0027 |jstor=27638653 |s2cid=155043015}}</ref> Petroleum deposits are in hardly any countries around the world; mainly in Russia and some parts of the middle east.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |url=https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world#/?pa=00000000000000000000000000000000002&c=ruvvvvvfvtvnvv1vrvvvvfvvvvvvfvvvou20evvvvvvvvvvvvuvo&ct=0&tl_id=5-A&vs=INTL.57-1-AFG-TBPD.A&vo=0&v=H&start=2014&end=2016 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |website=www.eia.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Alnasrawi |first=Abbas |title=The economy of Iraq: oil, wars, destruction of development and prospects, 1950–2010 |date=1994 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-29186-1 |location=Westport, Conn. |oclc=28965749}}</ref> Conflicts may start when countries refuse to cut oil production in which other countries respond to such actions by increasing their production causing a trade war as experienced during the [[2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ma |first1=Richie Ruchuan |last2=Xiong |first2=Tao |last3=Bao |first3=Yukun |date=October 1, 2021 |title=The Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war during the COVID-19 pandemic |journal=Energy Economics |language=en |volume=102 |page=105517 |doi=10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105517 |issn=0140-9883 |pmc=8652835 |pmid=34898736|bibcode=2021EneEc.10205517M }}</ref> Other conflicts start due to countries wanting petroleum resources or other reasons on oil resource territory experienced in the [[Iran–Iraq War]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iran-Iraq War {{!}} Causes, Summary, Casualties, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Iraq-War |access-date=February 16, 2023 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>