Oil and power

Mao Zedong said: “Power grows from the barrel of a gun.” He might have said: “Power grows from the barrel of oil.”

12 марта 2015

China’s outlook: sunshine and showers

How hard will China’s landing be? Premier Li Keqiang last week set the country its lowest GDP growth target since 1990, of 7pc. Sky News economics editor Ed Conway warns that “some China-watchers are talking about the beginning of the end of the Communist regime”, which

10 марта 2015

More palatable Iraqi terms possible

Lower oil prices have hit Iraq much harder than the core Mideast Gulf producers.

09 марта 2015

Buyers’ market may stymie UK pipeline plans

The UK government’s sale of its stake in cross-Channel train operator Eurostar serves as a reminder that when it comes to paying down the national debt, few things are sacred.

05 марта 2015

Achtung Naimi

Saudi Arabia is to Opec what Germany is to the EU. As the dominant member of each group, both can talk about reaching consensus in the interests of all, but their economic power means that it will be a consensus set on their terms.

04 марта 2015

“Houston, we have a spot market”

Houston has long been the US capital for the oil and gas industry, a place where office towers full of geologists, accountants and engineers look out on a horizon dotted with refineries and storage terminals. The Houston Ship Channel has been one of the world’s largest

04 марта 2015

The medium, not the message

Former TV news anchor Chai Jing doesn’t tell us anything very new about pollution in China — what she has done is push the issue to the top of the political agenda ahead of the country’s annual parliamentary session starting on 5 March.

03 марта 2015

Riders on the storm

Survival in the waters of the South Atlantic is quite a challenge but the Sea Lion field has it cracked, or that’s what the partners in the prospect reckon.

02 марта 2015

Iran deal — death knell for the Opec ceiling?

This week, the US government will try to secure a deal that could add up to 1mn b/d of crude to an already saturated market.

27 февраля 2015

All a bit confusing

Cautious optimism in Europe is on the rise, with a temporary reprieve for Greece, stock indexes hitting record highs and economic data mostly coming out better than forecast so far this year. But extrapolating fuel demand forecasts for the region is fraught with complic

26 февраля 2015

Iran’s distant dream

Iran boasts the world’s second largest natural gas reserves. And supreme leader Ali Khamenei has hubristically threatened to withhold them from the US and EU should sanctions remain in place.

25 февраля 2015

Heavy artillery

In the run-up to the Scottish referendum in September last year, London and Edinburgh were using North Sea oil and gas reserve and revenue projections as “heavy artillery” — a key argument for why voters should support or reject Scotland’s independence.

24 февраля 2015

EPA’s biofuel mea culpa

The very program that made biofuels commonplace in the US transportation fuel supply has ethanol producers looking abroad.

24 февраля 2015

Chinese dream

Beijing’s response to tumbling oil prices may be to merge its state-owned oil giants, CNPC and Sinopec, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. It is hard to imagine such a crazy plan ever coming to fruition. At most, it is the subject of re

23 февраля 2015

Baghdad and Erbil’s threadbare agreement

Baghdad’s oil export agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is hanging by a thread — just. Neither Baghdad nor Erbil is able to stick to its side of the bargain, and the agreement looks increasingly as though it could collapse under its own weight.

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