Rosatom’s Africa Push: How Russia Is Expanding Its Energy Influence Across the Continent
The geopolitical situation is rapidly changing and impacting Africa's development. Noticeably, Africa is becoming one of the key centers of global development. Rapid population...
Syria: The Strategic Implications of Becoming the Hormuz Bypass
Intelligence Assessment: The Iran war has turned Syria from a sanctions case into transit infrastructure that Iraq, Turkey, the Gulf and Washington all need,...
Why Are Middle East Oil Producers Struggling Despite Recovering Exports?
Asian refiners are facing a growing squeeze as soaring shipping and insurance costs erode profits, threatening to undermine the recovery in Middle Eastern oil...
Borrowed Time in the Strait of Hormuz
Crude oil is flowing out of the Gulf again, but the market is no better prepared for another disruption in the Strait of Hormuz....
The Bypass Is the Target: What This Week’s Gulf Escalation Reveals About Energy Security
On Tuesday, a Houthi missile strike set fire to part of Saudi Aramco's executive headquarters in Dhahran, the administrative heart of the kingdom's oil...
Trump-Putin Diesel Deal Explained: What We Know and What It Means for Global Oil Markets
US President Donald Trump is taking steps to reduce diesel prices by lifting sanctions on Russian diesel exports and declaring a ceasefire on energy...
Why Qatar’s LNG Exports May Take Years to Recover From the Iran War
The recovery of Middle Eastern oil exports has done little to ease the disruption facing the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, as Qatar...
The Global Cost of Resilience in the Twenty-First Century
For more than three decades, Europe organized much of its economic thinking around a particular interpretation of efficiency. Energy security, industrial self-sufficiency, strategic reserves,...
After the Strategic Reserves Run Dry
Two-Thirds Gone, Winter Ahead
On 30 September the US Department of Energy put the last 40 million barrels of its share of March’s emergency release...
The Diesel Weapon
Twenty-Four Hours in October
On 1 October Washington told Europe to release 120 million barrels of diesel from its emergency stocks over six months, or...