US will gain if oil price does go up, US will be a major oil and gas exporter with the amount of reserve they have.
Oil reserves in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proven oil reserves in the United States were 26.5 billion barrels (4.21×109 m3) as of 2011, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The 2011 data represent a 39% increase in proved reserves since 2008.[1] The Energy Information Administration estimates US undiscovered technically recoverable oil resources to be an additional 198 billion barrels
http://www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics.cfm?fips=SCS
As the USGS assessment did not examine the entire area, undiscovered resources could be greater. In November 2012, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) estimated the area holds around 125 billion barrels of oil and 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in undiscovered resources, although independent studies have not confirmed this figure.
East China Sea U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics.cfm?fips=ECS Cached
The EIA estimates that the East China Sea has between 60 and 100 million barrels of oil (mmbbl) in proven ... their reserve figures. Only the ... East China Sea gas
ISIS was train by the US, US has been creating wars all over ME just to disrupt future oil and gas price, it is not really about dictators.
The pivot to SEA, there wasn't much of a problem till US announce they are going to contain China and all of a sudden you have lot of tension within SCS and ECS.
