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So dear to Mexican society is the legacy of Lázaro Cárdenas’s 1938 expropriation of the country’s oil sector that it is still celebrated annually as…
California is hardly the place that comes to mind when one thinks of effective political leadership. Most would probably label Sacramento as a more deserving…
Five thousand feet beneath the surface of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea lays the Leviathan gas field, the largest discovered natural gas repository since the turn…
On Monday, April 7, the world’s largest democratic elections began in what will likely be the world’s most populous country within the next ten years.…
The politics of oil in the two largest Latin American oil exporters—Venezuela and Mexico—have recently diverged. While Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) is now politically…
On March 12, 2014, India and the United States renewed talks regarding cooperation on clean energy. The talks concluded positively with memorandums of understanding for…
The Arctic was once of interest only to polar scientists and adventurers, but this is rapidly changing as a warmer climate is making the region…
Turkey has bought oil from the Kurdish region in northern Iraq before, but oil transfer was carried out by trucks, which kept the amount of…
In June 2013, Russia’s oil giant Rosneft formalised a deal with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to supply the Chinese market with 26 billion…
Iran is planning to increase its oil production by an additional 1 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2014, provided that negotiations result in the…
As the Iranian nuclear deal begins to take effect and international pressure on the regime continues to diminish, Gulf nations have begun re-establishing diplomatic and…
1. Energy revolution in North America shapes global marketsThe energy boom in North America will continue to change global energy trends in 2014 and is…
Early in January, the head of the influential energy lobby American Petroleum Institute (API) made a strong call for the US to become a global…
The year 2014 could pose a milestone for the U.S. oil industry. In its latest annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency predicted that…
Oman and British oil giant BP have agreed to jointly develop a large, untapped natural gas field in Oman’s central desert region, further bolstering the…
The Fukushima nuclear crisis certainly had profound implications for Japan. In November 2013, Japan’s lower house and upper house successively passed legislation to start electricity…
Ukraine is one step farther away from Europe. A sudden decision made by the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich to cancel the signing of a pre-agreed…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) report, released last week, features Brazil as both a world leader in renewable energy and soon to be a major…
The British government recently made a deal with French-owned EDF, Arriva and Chinese investors to continue with the development of the Hinkley Point C nuclear…
When Typhoon Wipha flooded Japan with heavy rains last week, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant ordered precautionary measures to prevent leakage of…