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The UAE’s departure, the largest and most consequential since the cartel’s founding, weakens OPEC+ materially and reputationally, but it does so because of internal rifts, US supply abundance and regional conflict —...

Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn as a...

Space has its own chokepoint that it is becoming more critical by the year. AI will determine who can operate in that domain and who cannot. The country that builds and supplies that infrastructure will not just compete in...

Energy "REALITY" tells us that we need refineries to convert crude oil into usable transportation fuels and products.

Energy abundance is not a luxury; it is the foundation of modern civilisation. To pretend otherwise is not sophistication. It is civilisational self-harm. And the bill, as always, lands on the people least able to afford...

Transition to a cleaner future takes time and we need supplies that are the least polluting and have the lowest cost

Predictably, there was a bit of a fuss and McGuire subsequently withdrew his post – “not because I regretted it”, but because people took it the wrong way, he explained.

The energy crisis sparked by the war is making some countries consider ramping up their use of dirty fuels

Chasing Chinese EVs is ideological nonsense; building the world’s biggest fertilizer industry should be Canada’s number one priority.

Its Father Jupiter, not Mother Gaia, that the haughty Europeans should have prayed to.

This blog is now closedStarmer says he understands why people are concerned about the cost of living.

The resilience I saw in Dubai, where life continued amid ongoing attacks, now faces an even greater test as the global energy supply chain is under strain...

The world will remain vulnerable to disruptions in oil and gas supply. And few places embody that vulnerability more clearly than the Strait of Hormuz. A sliver of water in the Persian Gulf still holds the power to shake...

The crisis also showcases America’s capacity to support allies and the poor. Long‑term LNG contracts with Asian and European partners, coupled with support for reasonable financing of oil and gas projects in developing...

Governments in countries heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil introduce measures to shield public from soaring costs