Book review: Coal and (America’s grappling with) Empire
Opinion
“The supposed security need for distant American coaling stations in the late nineteenth century did not play a significant role
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Drone attacks against Saudi oil will test long held assumptions
Opinion
On Saturday, ten drones attacked Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq and the Khurais oilfield. The coordinated attacks
Can Europe shed its Dutch gas crutch?
Opinion
As foreign companies formerly based in Britain flee to the continental confines of the Netherlands, the Dutch themselves are fleeing
Saudi oil patience in the age of plenty
Opinion
We are living in an age of plenty, at least when it comes to oil. There is more production globally
Book review: Leviathan and the state of Israel’s Mediterranean Gas
Consumption
Anyone visiting the Mediterranean in the summer goes for the sea, food, and the unique palette of colors. Purples, pinks,
Bottlenecks, batteries, and the battle for Scottish wind
Opinion
Over the past 150 years, one cost has vexed the oil and gas industry more than any other: transport. The
European refineries enjoying summer of friendship and brotherly love
Opinion
In late April, organic chlorides contaminated Russian crude oil flowing to Europe through the Druzhba pipeline. The subsequent shutdown of
Russian oil money inks Italy
Consumption
The topic today is an adversary that roams the recesses of Western polities, searching out avaricious and insincere populists to
Book review: the gravity of the climate crisis must bring us back Down to Earth
Environment
“Trump’s originality is to link, in a single gesture, first the headlong rush toward maximum profit while abandoning the rest
Competing visions for hydrocarbons in the melting Arctic
Environment
The acceleration of climate change and geopolitical tension surrounding hydrocarbons are churning the global energy landscape. Nowhere is the speed
In Persian Gulf, it’s back to the future
Opinion
Is Robert Zemeckis a seer? The celebrated American director of the Back to the Future trilogy seems to have uncanny
Book review: America’s Christianity-and-crude cocktail explained in Anointed with Oil
Industry
“In his keynote address [to the American Petroleum Institute in 1941], [Henry Luce, founder of Life Magazine and the term
The polarizing EU elections and the energy transition
Opinion
Citizens around the world are voting to change the way things are done. There are many causes of this upheaval
Gas industry must prioritize decarbonization to retain European market
Industry
Gas has grown prolifically in Europe over the past three decades. It past coal in 1996 and could pass oil
The Libyan oil era is over
Opinion
For decades, Libyan oil has been a linchpin of European oil-supply security. In 2011, the British and French even went