oil

  President Barack Obama’s Iran policy is complicating the calculations of all parties interested in the country’s vast energy reserves. But along with the resource-hungry Asian tigers, France’s largest oil …

  Oil and gas markets face a number of challenges to their continued development, with producers confronting three main issues: peak oil, alternative energy and/or nuclear power and the risk …

Sitting on one of the world’s biggest reserves of oil, Iraq continues to be presented with a still difficult-to-answer question — are its vast hydrocarbon reserves an asset or a …

There’s an old saying in the oil industry: “Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.” The late American oil magnate, Jean Paul Getty, may have been …

Since 2000, many political and business leaders have shifted their focus from lowering energy costs to diversifying their energy supply, in part through the introduction of renewable energy. This change …

The word on the street is that banks in the UAE have faired rather well amid the aftershocks of the global financial crisis. Considering they weren’t hit as hard as …

The world oil market has undergone dramatic developments over the last 12 months. On January 3, 2008, the price of a barrel of oil passed the $100 mark for the …

Change in the White House looms as Washington’s political class senses that the old adversary Iran is more open to pressure. There is a tempting parallel with the collapse of …

I recently made contact with a very old friend of mine living in Switzerland. We had not seen one another for almost 18 years. In fact, the last time I …