Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
European fuming over recent cuts in Russian gas shipments via Ukraine might help the struggling Nabucco gas pipeline project, which intends to use Caspian and Mideastern gas to be delivered through the Balkans. The upcoming Budapest Nabucco summit will also tell us where the West stands concerning Iranian gas.
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Gas emergency declared across Europe
Ukraine and Russia: the role of a middleman
The Russian bear?
Nate Hagens on the financial meltdown and fossil fuels
Peak Oil – Politics, Geopolitics, and Choke Points
Radical Retrenchment — A reference model
Russia flexes its military muscle
Arab News: Why should we bail out US automobile industry
New Year, New Outlook For Oil
Jérôme Guillet: The battle of the oligarchs behind the gas dispute
Europe begins to feel gas pipeline pinch
Ukraine will end up paying more – but it needs to wean itself off Russian gas
It’s time to see through Gazprom
Gazprom’s tactics harsh but its logic sound
Russia-Ukraine: A market dispute
The carbon footprint of nuclear war
Michael Klare: Time to kill the oil beast
Worries about Russia or Gazprom using the “gas weapon” against Europe are misplaced. In their official capacity, both are keenly aware of their absolute dependency on exports to Europe for a huge chunk of the country’s income, and on the need for stable, reliable long term relationships to finance the investments needed in gas infrastructure (and they know their clients share that need). They are happy to play power politics with the West’s worries as this goes down well with their own domestic audiences, but fundamentally they will not rock the gas boat.
The struggle to reduce dependence on Gazprom
Jitters across EU as Russia cuts Ukraine fuel supply
Russian gas row may cost UK customers
Gazprom set to halt gas to Ukraine
For Big Oil, a day of reckoning
Top story of the year: global oil production peaked in 2008
CAPP’S Crude Oil Forecast
Gazprom warns W. Europe could be hit by gas shortages
UK Times: Oil giants are itching to invade Iraq
Pengrowth acknowledge peak oil
Deutsche Bank: Demand for oil will fall by largest margin in 25 years
A recent history of oil prices
The Oil Drum’s year-end report
A food agenda for Obama
It was a gas (Haber-Bosch process for fertilizers)
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
