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Bassam Fattouh
Director, Oil and the Middle East Programme

In addition to his role as Director of the Oil and Middle East Programme, Bassam Fattouh is also Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University; and Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has published a variety of articles on the international oil pricing system, OPEC pricing power, security of Middle Eastern oil supplies, and the dynamics of oil prices and oil price differentials where his artilces has appeared in Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, and Energy Policy. Recently, Dr Fattouh served as a member of an independent expert group established to provide recommendations to the 12th International Energy Forum (IEF) Ministerial Meeting in Cancun (29-31 March 2010) for strengthening the architecture of the producer-consumer dialogue through the IEF and reducing energy market volatility. Bassam Fattouh has also published in non-energy related areas where his papers have appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economics Letters and Macroeconomic Dynamics and in other journals and books.

Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait, with Laura El-Katiri and Paul Segal, in David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf States: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, forthcoming 2011, Routledge.

Also published as an LSE Research Paper, Anatomy of an oil-based welfare state: Rent distribution in Kuwait .

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Publications

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Basis Variation and the Role of Inventories: Evidence from the Crude Oil Market

Published: 1^st January 2009 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Energy Economics, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Working Papers

Tags / , Backwardation, basis variation, Contango, Futures price, markov regime switching, Oil Market, oil price, OPEC, Spot Price, WPM 38, WPM38

North African Oil and Foreign Investment in Changing Market Conditions

Published: 14^th November 2008 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Working Papers

Tags / , Algeria, Egypt, fiscal terms, Libya, North Africa, Oil Contracts, psa. epsa, rent, Sudan, WPM 37, WPM37

To Cut or not to Cut: The Dilemma Facing OPEC

Published: 1^st October 2008 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Energy Comments, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme

Tags / , Active, Cuts, Inventories, Oil Markets, Oil Price Dynamics, OPEC, Output, Passive, Recession, WTI

Oil Prices: fundamentals or speculation?

Published: 1^st June 2008 | By: Christopher Allsopp, Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Presentations, Presentations, Publications

Tags / , Demand, Elasticity, Feedbacks, fundamentals, Oil Price Behaviour OPEC, Oil Prices, Oil Shock, Production, speculation, Supply

Prospects of the DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contracts

Published: 1^st March 2008 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Comments, Energy Economics, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme

Tags / , Brent, Deliverability, DME, Futures Contracts, Liquidity, Middle East, Oil Pricing Policy, Oman, Sour Crudes, The Gulf, WTI

The Dynamics of Crude Oil Price Differentials

Published: 1^st January 2008 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Working Papers

Tags / , Arbitrage, Crude Oil, differentials, Oil Markets, oil price, regionalization, shocks, WPM 39, WPM39

How Secure are Middle East Oil Supplies?

Published: 1^st September 2007 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Working Papers

Tags / , Geopolitics, Islamists, Oil Security, Sanctions, Security Margins, Spare Capacity, Terrorist Attacks, The Middle East, War, WPM 33, WPM33

The Myth of the Iranian Oil Weapon

Published: 1^st August 2007 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Comments, Energy Security, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme

WTI Benchmark Temporarily Breaks Down: Is it really a Big Deal?

Published: 1^st April 2007 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Energy Comments, Energy Economics, Finance, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme

Tags / , Arbitrage, Brent, Crude Oil, Cushing, Inventories, Pipeline, Price Differentials, Pricing Formula, The WTI Benchmark, USA, Volatility

OPEC Pricing Power: The Need for a New Perspective

Published: 1^st March 2007 | By: Bassam Fattouh

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme, Working Papers

Tags / , Capacity Expansions, EIA, IEA, Market Share, Oil Pricing System, OPEC, Pricing Power, Saudi Arabia, The Middle East, WPM 31, WPM31

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Contact Bassam Fattouh

Tel: +44 (0)1865 889121

Fax: +44 (0)1865 310527

Email: bassam.fattouh@oxfordenergy.org

Areas of Expertise

Bassam Fattouh focuses his research on aspects of the international oil pricing system such as the relationship between the futures market and spot market, the relationship between OPEC and the market, the causes of oil price volatility and the dynamics of oil price differentials. He also focuses his research on the IOC-NOC relationship and its implications for investment behaviour. He has a strong background in the economic environment of the Middle East.

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