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
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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
Book review: Titans of the Climate compares U.S.-China climate policies
Environment
“Both China and the United States were blessed and cursed with gigantic natural energy resource endowments in the form of
Turkey is shifting gears on gas
Opinion
Russian missiles and U.S. fighter jets have dominated the news in Turkey in recent weeks as Ankara is set to
Yearning for Euro-denominated oil
Opinion
Last September, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proposed a bold idea. “We must do more to allow our single currency
Energy conjoins NATO, 70 years later
Opinion
On April 4, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated its 70th birthday in Washington in rather ho-hum fashion. The
Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth unfurls the climate kaleidoscope
Environment
You’d think that a culture woven through with intimations of apocalypse would know how to receive news of environmental alarm.
Europe is entering its golden age of gas
Consumption
In a 2011 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) asked a provocative question: are we entering a golden age of