- Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Despite a continuing market for LNG, the war in Ukraine has led to Europe turning away from Russian gas exports.
A cold winter in Europe and war in the Persian Gulf could send prices soaring.
The US Department of Energy will review its process for approving new LNG projects.
Modellers of the energy transition have tended to neglect fractious international relations in their calculations.
Britain’s energy price cap is lower than last year but there are still several factors that could increase energy costs this winter.
Those who think the worst of Europe’s energy crisis is over are getting ahead of themselves.
Pipeline rupture may cause EU gas demand to peak sooner than expected.
Why the UK’s reliance on natural gas means the energy crisis is unlikely to end this winter.
Why recent calls for the UK to resuscitate shale gas exploration are for the birds.
Europe urgently needs to become less dependent on gas.
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Oil and gas have been on a roller coaster these past two years – here’s why.
The government can no longer delay decisions on the future of gas in Britain’s energy system.
More than 80% of UK households use gas to heat their homes so the industry has to handle huge swings in demand.
Councillors are caught in the crossfire between government, industry, protestors and locals.
Much has been made of the agreement signed by Moscow and Beijing to get gas flowing from western Siberia to China. There is talk of Russia using the deal to offset its isolation from the west and circumventing…
As with the previous Russia-Ukraine gas disputes in 2006 and 2009, how we describe the current stand-off between the two countries is a matter of semantics. Those earlier disputes found solutions based…
Gazprom’s decision to hike the price of the gas it sells to Ukraine came as no surprise as it was flagged more than a month ago. At that time the company’s website showed the Russian prime minister, Dmitry…
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