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Paul Cleary makes a good case as to why Australia should follow Norway as an example of how to tax miners in Trillion Dollar Baby.
Big Oil has historically played a behind-the-scenes role on American policy and politics. No longer.
Venezuela and ExxonMobil have been spatting over oil for decades. How will that history impact relations under a Rex Tillerson-run State Department?
President Obama used an obscure 1953 law to bar offshore drilling in Arctic Alaska and along the Atlantic coast. Republicans and energy companies want to reverse the ban, but it will not be easy.
The end of fossil fuels is approaching fast. But the question remains of what to do with those that remain, waiting to be sold.
To see why, one must only consider the core economic principle of supply and demand.
The search for oil was once depicted in movies and books as a boys’ own adventure. But as films such as Deepwater Horizon show, in an age of anxieties over fossil fuels, oil’s story is now a darker one.
Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
Australia has the third largest marine jurisdiction in the world, a vast ocean territory that contains important natural and biological resources. And it needs protecting.
The mining industry is more resilient because of the recent downturn and it will be global supply and demand that will affect these companies in the future.
Gabon has the lowest trust ratings of any election commission among the 36 African countries surveyed by Afrobarometer.
Restoring the North Sea to a ‘pristine’ state isn’t necessarily the best thing for its eco-systems.
The fourth episode of our podcast takes on fuel – from Olympic diets to conflict over oil in the Niger Delta.
It is important to nurture local companies and increase domestic participation in Africa’s emerging oil economies.
China claims ownership of almost all of the South China Sea and refuses to abide by a recent ruling calling that hogwash. Why does China want to control the sea so badly?
What has the Chilcot Inquiry actually achieved? Here’s what the experts had to say.
Iraq’s oil industry is a window into the troubled period that followed regime change.
Oil wasn’t the conspiracy behind the Iraq War, but it was always in the mix.
Venezuela sits at the edge of a humanitarian calamity. A GSU international mediation expert explains how outsiders can play a critical role in resolving the cause – a deeply rooted political battle.
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