This article was published in Middle East Oil & Gas Monitor, 16 October 2012. The fate of the world economy depends critically on Iraqi oil, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published last week. (more…)...

This article was published in NorthAmOil, 6 September 2012. There seems to be a rule that every US presidential hopeful must promise energy independence but never deliver. (more…)...

This article was first published in EurOil, 24 July 2012, and by 2degreesnetwork, 30 July 2012. Move over peak oil, the world is heading for glut, according to a recent report by Leonardo Maugeri, a former executive with the Italian oil company Eni. (more…)...

This article was published in EurOil, 19 June 2012. You could be forgiven for thinking BP’s luck had finally turned on 1st June 2012. (more…)...

This article was published in Unconventional Oil & Gas Monitor, 4 June 2012. Like it or not, the unconventional gas industry has a lousy reputation. It is widely blamed for water contamination, earthquakes and fugitive emissions of methane that by some estimates make its climate impact worse than coal. (more…)...

This article was first published in Unconventional Oil & Gas Monitor, 4 June 2012. Peak oil used to be a debate in which geologists and economists threw bricks at each other but seldom talked. (more…)...

This article was published in Middle East Oil & Gas Monitor, 15 May 2012. The Saudi oil minister must be feeling pleased with himself. At the end of March, with Brent crude trading at around $125 per barrel, Ali al Naimi wrote a sharply worded column in the Financial Times claiming there was “no rational reason” for such high and economically damaging oil prices. Since then, Brent has slumped to around $112. Giving the market a stern talking-to apparently did the trick. (more…)...

This article was published in EurOil, 1 May 2012. April is the cruelest month, a poet once wrote, and so it seems in the political economy of oil. (more…)...