A Quarterly Journal for Debating Energy Issues and Policies
Africa is often referred to as the forgotten continent. It only catches the headlines when revolutions, massacres or massive electoral fraud take place. Africa is not a poor continent however. There is both hydrocarbon and mineral wealth. Oil and gas resources are valuable assets for the countries that possess them, and globally for an energy hungry world. In this issue of Forum five authors assess successes achieved and problems faced by some African countries in the hydrocarbon and electricity fields. Issue 73
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
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Index to recent Energy Forums
| Issue 74 September 2008 |
Limits and Possibilities of US Energy Policy |
The Oil Price Conundrum |
The Oil-Climate Bargain |
| Personal Comment Mark Moody-Stuart |
Oil in Africa |
US Presidential Candidates and Energy |
Comments on Gas Demand, Contrasts and Prices |
| 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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