Bonjour, j'ai un article du Time à réduire, de 1350 mots à 400 mots environ.
Je suis déjà arrivé à 575 mots, mais pour les 150 / 175 restants, je bloque, je ne trouve rien de vraiment superflu.
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For decades, the only promise most Cubans saw in the ocean north of their island was the current that carries homemade rafts to Florida. That all changed a few years ago when geologists estimated that between 5 billion bbl. and 10 billion bbl. of oil lie beneath the waters off Cuba's northwest coast.
Suddenly it seemed as though the hemisphere's sole communist nation might finally end its desperate dependence on oil-rich allies like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela — and perhaps even escape its impoverished economic time warp altogether. Cuba now produces about 60,000 barrels of oil per day (BPD) and consumes more than 150,000 BPD. Venezuela makes up the difference by shipping almost 100,000 BPD to Cuba.
The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores. Despite the Bush Administration's hard line on Cuba, Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation to exempt Big Oil from the embargo. That clamor is sure to rise — especially if Barack Obama, who is more open to dialogue with Havana, becomes the next President — now that Cuba's state oil company, Cubapetroleo, has announced a stunning new estimate of more than 20 billion bbl. bubbling off its shores. If true, those potential reserves could make Cuba a major petro player in the hemisphere. (The U.S. has reserves of 29 billion bbl.)
The Spanish energy company Repsol-YPF has entered into a production-sharing agreement with Cupet and is scheduled to start drilling the first real well in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) next year. Other international firms, including Norway's StatoilHidro and India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp., are part of the Repsol-led consortium. Venezuela's state-run Petroleos is considered a lesser player because it has little deep-water drilling experience and plummeting crude prices mean that Chávez may have a lot less wealth to spread around for his petro-diplomacy projects. Cuba is also in important negotiations with Brazil's Petrobras, which just made its own multibillion-barrel oil find off its coast near Rio de Janeiro and could, analysts say, be the major offshore drilling partner for Cuba if it jumps in.
Still, the concessions so far represent less than a quarter of the 59 drilling blocks that Cuba hopes to exploit in the 112,000 sq km EEZ. In fact, firms have to bring much more of their own capital, equipment, technology and on-the-ground know-how than usual. This year's severe hurricane damage in Cuba has made the situation worse. Canada's Sherritt, for exemple, recently dropped out of its four-block contract.
In the short run it's more likely to make the U.S. more determined to do its own offshore drilling. Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials point to Cuba's petro fortunes as justification for opening more of America's coastline to oil production. Recent polls in U.S. coastal states like Florida support that idea, despite environmentalist complaints. Meanwhile, embargo proponents on Capitol Hill have this reasoning: the more oil wealth Havana gains, the less incentive it has to pursue democratic reform.
But at the end of the day, U.S.-Cuba relations continue to exist in a Cold War time warp. As a result, in both Washington and Havana, 20 billion bbl. of oil might not be such a game changer after all.
