The Hormuz red herring Talk of conflict in the Strait of Hormuz misses the real threat to the global oil market, says Derek Brower IRAN’S threat to close the narrow body of water that connects the Mideast Gulf with the global oil market is neither credible, nor the worst possible outcome of rising tensions [...]
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The Hormuz red herring
Posted in Iran, Iraq, oil, oil markets on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Iraq… the oil sands… and the gas glut
Posted in China, Energy, Energy politics, Geopolitics, Iraq, Natural Gas, oil markets, oil sands, Petroleum Economist, Saudi Arabia, Shale gas, Unconventional gas on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m busy. In addition to editing the ever-expanding Petroleum Economist and its excellent new channel on unconventional energy (called, imaginatively enough, PE Unconventional), I’ve four major writing projects on the go. A long piece for The Economist on the tar sands (or oil sands, if you prefer) An in-depth look, for Petroleum Economist, at Iraq’s [...]