A Quarterly Journal for Debating Energy Issues and Policies
Some thirty years ago natural gas was thought of as oil baby brother. Gas was then seen as a fuel whose place in the energy slate would always lag behind oil. Later, gas was increasingly seen as the transitional fuel that would eventually replace oil as the leading energy source. Have these perceptions changed? And more broadly, what are the problems now facing gas and the challenges ahead? These are the topics addressed in this issue. Issue 72
In this issue one of the themes we discuss are the threats to oil supplies, distinguishing genuine from bogus fears and the time horizons over which they may arise. Gas supply issues and the apparent contradiction between two trends in Europe are also discussed. One being the liberalisation of energy markets, and the other, the entry of foreign gas suppliers in Europe’s downstream. Issue 71
In this issue oil/gas developments in a number of American countries are examined. Adrian Lajous, looks at the supply of heavy and extra heavy crudes to the very important US petroleum market. Energy issues in Brazil are assessed by Rogerio Manso and Colombia and Bolivia are also covered. The topical question of China in Africa is examined by Lindsey Hilsum and Bassam Fattouh. Issue 69
In this issue three authors address the question will the world need increased production of nuclear electricity to meet in the long term a growing demand for energy? The current price regime for oil in international trade is analysed and the authors question whether features of the current price regime is able to provide sufficient signals to economic agents involved in the world energy scene. Issue 68
Can we expect an energy crisis with serious economic, social and, inevitably, political consequences to hit the world sometime in the foreseeable future? Governments of OECD countries and some developing nations appear to be increasingly worried about such possibilities. In issue 67 we address a few aspects of this vast subject.
The themes selected for issue 66 relate to two important questions. Are oil and gas supplies secure in a long term that, paradoxically, is not far from where we stand today? And why are oil prices so high today? The topic of energy security is so vast that we have focused on one aspect – the allegation that Russia is using gas as a political weapon and thus represents a threat to this highly valued security. The second theme is about the geopolitical factors that are supporting high oil prices and in this issue we concentrate on four sources of concern: Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Latin America.
In issue 65 we start with a look at the International Oil Companies (IOCs). In the old days it was taken for granted that the objective was to get as much upstream as you could and have an integrated system through which the crude would pass. These days upstream resources are hard to come by. Project management has become a vital ingredient of their activity, but suitable personnel seem as elusive as upstream oil. Into all this come the financial analysts and investors demanding more cash more frequently and the environmentalists demanding all manner of energy provided it’s not oil. So, where will the IOCs end up? Issue 65
Economic Implications of the Oil Price Increase. This issue examines the way in which the high current price of oil might affect our economic expectations and how the oil producers are dealing with this sudden increase in their revenues. We also have two articles dealing with aspects of environmental policy. Issue 64
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Index to recent Energy Forums
| Gas and Transitional Fuel Jonathan Stern, Michael Stoppard, Burckhard Bergmann, Thierry Bros, Simon Pirani |
Assessments of Bali 2007 |
Personal Commentary |
Security of Supply |
The Dynamics of Oil and Price Determination |
Letter and Comment |
| Environment and Climate Change Simon Caney, Benito Mueller, Robert Ritz, Paul Newman, Liz Bossley |
Access to Oil Reserves |
Angola's Entry in OPEC: a win-win move? |
| The Battle of the Sour Futures Contracts Bassam Fattouh |
Venezuelan Oil - The Unfulfilled Promise |
Oil and Gas Developments in some American Countries |
China in Africa |
| Nuclear Energy Alain Bucaille, Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Pierre-René Bauquis |
| Climate Change, a Global Problem, is a Global Solution Possible? Peter Nichols |
| The Oil Price Regime, Bassam Fattouh, Robert Mabro |
| The Re-emergence of Ethanol Fuel in Brazil Eduardo Luiz Correia |
Energy Policy |
Energy in Flux |
US Environment Policy in states vs. the States |
Personal Commentary |
Is Russia a Threat to Energy Supplies? |
The UK Energy Review and Nuclear Power |
The Geopolitical Causes of High Oil Prices |
Why is the Macroeconomic Impact of Oil Prices Different this Time? |
The International Oil Companies |
Gas Prices in the uk : Markets and Insecurity of Supply |
The Engineering Procurement Construction Industry |
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum and Europe |
Some Farewell Comments |
Personal Commentary |
Economic Implications of the Oil Price Increase |
Environmental Issues |
The Role of Technology in reducing E&P
Costs |
The Strategies of non-OECD Gas Producers |
Personal Commentary |
Upstream Taxation |
US Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
The Future of Russian Gas
and Gazprom |
Too Many ‘Perfect Storms' |
Personal Commentary |
Refining and Price |
Impact of the Power Generation Sector on Future European Gas Demand |
Oil Prices and Fundamentals |
Personal Commentary |
Nuclear Energy |
Indian Gas Supply: Elixir for Growth or Priced out of Reach |
Oil Production Expectations outside the Middle East |
Personal Commentary |
Energy Policy: Old Baggage |
Technology and Energy – 21st Century Outlook |
OPEC and the 21st Century. What has Changed and what have we Learnt? |
The Private Oil Companies: From Consolidation to Growth |
What Role Derivatives? |
Multilateral Energy Co-operation in Northeast Asia : Promise or Mirage? |
Lessons from North America |
Investment in LNG |
Investment in Power Generation |
| Personal Commentary |
Why Oil Prices Have Moved Higher |
Gas to Liquids |
Why Oil Prices Have Moved Higher |
The Value of Oil and Gas Reserves - SEC Definitions |
Personal Commentary |
Clean Energy |
European Emission Trading and the Electricity Market |
NOC to IOC? National Oil Companies and International Oil Companies |
Personal Commentary |
WTI as a Marker Crude |
Value or Volume |
Downstream |
Post-war Iraq |
| The Political Economy of Electricity in India |
| UK Energy Policy |
| Measuring Majors |
| Siberian Pipelines |
| China |
| Oil and US Foreign Policy |
| Infrastructure Issues on the UKCS |
| Coal |
| Solar Oxford Initiative |
| Brent/BFO |
| Issue 51 November 2002 |
| Sustainable Energy Development |
| OPEC and Dialogue |
| The E.ON/Ruhrgas Merger and Competition |
| Personal Commentary |
| Issue 50 August 2002 |
| Gas-Exporting Countries: Towards “Cartelisation”? |
| Survival for the Long-Term Planners |
| DotCon, DotBom or DotCom? |
| Electricity Prices in the Single European Energy Market |
| A Monkey's View of Privatisation, Liberalisation and Upstream
Taxation |
| Russian Oil versus the Middle East |
| Sovereignty and Oil |
| New US Approach to Climate Change |
| Issue 49 May 2002 |
| Renewable Energy |
| Russian Oil |
| Issue 48 February 2002 |
| Russian Gas for Europe |
| 2002: More Ambiguity Ahead for Oil Producers |
| The Petroleum Retailing Technology Revolution |
| Heavy Oil |
| Issue 47 November 2001 |
| Energy Crisis? |
| Expected Developments in EU Energy Taxes |
| 11 September 2001 |
| Vertical Integration |
| Issue 46 August 2001 |
| National Oil Companies - Managers and Shareholders |
| The Electricity Crisis in Brazil |
| Aviation Industry and the Environment |
| Issue 45 May 2001 |
| Japanese Energy Policy |
| Energy to 2020 |
| The Role of Sinks |
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