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Topic 4 Trade in energy resources. Energy security 4.1 Energy security. The main types of energy resources 4.2 Production and export of the main types of energy resources. 4.3 EU energy security 4.1 Energy security. The main types of energy resources An undeniable fact of the XXI century is increasingly higher dependence world economies from the energy resources. • The world economy is still dependent on oil as a central resource of energy and struggle for resources dominate the geopolitics of the XXI century. Shortages of energy resources have an important role in the onset or escalation of conflicts, the polarization and/or catalyzing forces. Examples are the latest in Chechnya, Angola, Iraq, and Sudan. Competition for oil dominates the beginning of the millennium, with focus on the polarization states of the Gulf, Caspian Basin, Eastern and Western Siberia, West Africa, Southeast Asia, northern South America, Canada. Energy resources are generally limited and unevenly distributed. The great powers seek to gain control over the most significant energy resources In recent years, oil landscape, we notice