The global oil market’s new, strange alliance
Measures aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19 have caused acute economic pain among major oil-producing countries, as the collapse […] Read More
Category Archives: Policy
OECD Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts
Drastic changes in oil prices, like the one we are witnessing today, typically push many host governments to renegotiate contracts […] Read More
Major Setback for Lebanon’s Oil and Gas
For many years, 2020 will be remembered as the year that brought the world economy on its knees and oil […] Read More
Iraq: An oil giant with a chronic disease
Iraq has a major success story in its oil industry. It is one of the very few oil-rich countries in […] Read More
Shadow over Brazil’s oil production outlook
Brazil is expected to be one of the most significant sources of oil supply growth in the next five years, […] Read More
The Resource Curse Hits Lebanon Without the Resource
There is no shortage of analysis and commentaries linking the unrest that Lebanon has been witnessing since October 2019 to […] Read More
Germany: Balancing the Energiewende
Germany is determined to take the global fight against climate change seriously. Since the beginning of this century, the world’s […] Read More
Assessing Tunisia’s Upstream Petroleum Fiscal Regime
The overriding objective of this paper is to examine Tunisia’s upstream petroleum fiscal regime, in consideration of the government’s stated […] Read More
Look Where We’re Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
Lord David Howell, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy, launched his new book, “Look Where We’re Going: Escaping […] Read More
GIS Dossier: Algeria’s ‘system’ teeters
GIS Dossiers aim to give a quick overview of key topics, regions or conflicts based on a selection of experts’ […] Read More