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Sanctions, Not Blockade: Maritime Energy Statecraft in Practice

Merry Christmas!

From Wind Turbines to EVs: The Trade Law Red Line Governments Keep Crossing

The War-Risk Premium Is Back—and It’s Sailing on Tankers

Pricing the New Tanker War: How Large Is the War-Risk Premium?

A Final Note on Speculation Revisited: Fundamentals, Finance, and Oil Price Politics

Oil Shrugs. Gas Signals Opportunity.

The Oil Glut You Can’t See: Freight, Sanctions, and Oil on Water

Energy, Conflict, and Decline: Colombia’s Oil Sector in Historical Perspective

Europe’s Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy Is Not Just a Climate Policy—It Is a Trade Policy for Molecules

Canada’s LNG Bottleneck: What Red Tape Really Costs

The Peak We Missed: Why 2004 Still Matters for Energy Politics

Why Peak Oil Is Past?

Commodities Insights Digest 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards

Geopolitics, Sanctions, and the Future of Oil Prices

Happy Thanksgiving from Energy Politics! 🍁

Oil and Economic Theory: A Review and Update

Rules versus Discretion: The Fate of FAIT and the Restoration of Monetary Credibility

Energy Politics Brief 2025–26

Strategic Flexibility under Carbon Uncertainty: Lessons from Real Options Economics

Oil and Gas Seeps, Slicks, Spills, Kicks, and Blowouts: Part I

Power, Precision, and the Price of Courage

Nuclear: New Sounds from Sweden — Fifteen Years Later

Oil’s Poker Face

Energy Politics Update – November 2025

Is Mexico Still the “New China”? Fifteen Years Later

Oil and Gas Seeps, Slicks, Spills, Kicks, and Blowouts: Part I

Strategic Flexibility under Carbon Uncertainty: Lessons from Real Options Economics

Oil and Gas Seeps, Slicks, Spills, Kicks, and Blowouts: Part I

The Murban Moment: When a Light Sour Crude Sets the Medium Sour Agenda

“From Land Mines to Copper Mines” A Review

Europe and Central Asia (still) Facing an Energy Crunch

War Premium 2025: How Geopolitics and Logistics Are Repricing Energy

Europe and Central Asia (still) Facing an Energy Crunch

Balance Sheets vs. Battlefields: Why Oil’s Volatility Smile Persists

The Second Age of Uncertainty Premiums: Energy Markets in a Fractured World

Supply Chain Pressures Edge Higher Again

The Great Overhang: IEA Flags +2.5 mb/d Surplus as OPEC+ Unwinds Cuts

Oil in 2026: Bears vs. Bulls

Join me on Notes

Energy Politics Briefing: bp vs. EIA vs. OPEC Outlooks (2025)

3.5 Million and Counting: Canada’s Oil Sands Break Records in 202

Venezuela, Trump, and Canada’s Heavy-Oil Trap

China’s Crude Stockpiling Is Quietly Backstopping Oil Prices

Charting a New Energy Future for Singapore: Review and Update

Baltic Barrels Under Fire: How Ukraine Is Targeting Russia’s Oil Lifelines

A Review of Exploring the Asian Premium in Crude Oil

Oil Glut or Mirage? Why 2025 May Not Be as Bearish as It Looks

Refinery Reinvestment: What §168(n) Really Does—and Why It Matters

Valuing Free Destination Flexibility in LNG: A Practical Approach

From Sanctions to Skew: Oil’s Next Move

EIA’s Surplus Story: Oil Glut Builds Even as Prices Edge Higher

Closer Than You Think: Canada’s Energy Bridge to Europe

18 Days to Europe: Why Canada Can’t Miss the Arctic Express

Carbon Capture: High Costs, Low Returns, and Broken Promises

Geopolitical Flashpoints Are Sustaining a Crude Risk Premium

From White Rose to Kitimat: How Canada Is Quietly Fueling Europe

A Review of the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre’s APEC Energy Overview 2025

Power of Siberia 2 and Arctic LNG 2: Rerouting the Global Gas Map

CCUS and the Price at the Pump

Pipelines and Sanctions: How Russia Is Re-Wiring Gas Flows to China

When Citizens Build the Grid: Lessons from Pakistan for Canada, the EU, and the U.S.

The New Geography of Russian Oil: Refinery Strikes, Shadow Fleets, and India’s Calculus

An Integrated Approach Towards Electric Drive Transportation in Canada

Steady at 2.2%: The New York Fed’s GDP Forecast and Energy’s Next Moves

Reconsidering Inventories: Strategic Storage in a Volatile Energy World

Absolutely Everything That You Need to Know About Electric Deregulation

5,000 km of Rail: How the Bi-Oceanic Corridor Could Reshape Trade Costs

Energy Economics and Some Energy Myths for the 21st Century

Powell at Jackson Hole: What It Means for Rates — and for Oil

Sakhalin Signals: Oil Market Implications of a Possible Peace Deal

White Rose: Valuation, Capacity, and the Missed Opportunity in Canadian Offshore

Argentina’s Market Test of Free-Market Economics

The Slide from Peak: A Wireless Space Solution to the Energy Crisis

Breakeven Oil Prices Then and Now (2009 vs. 2025)

Rate Relief: Why the Fed’s Easing Matters for Oil

From Oil to Options: Clean Development and Carbon Economics in Panama (2009)

1000 Years of Struggle: Mapping the Roots of the Israel–Hamas Conflict

Electricity: Powering the Change That America Needs

Global Margins in a Carbon-Constrained World

Decarbonizing the Sands: Costs, Timelines, and Trade-offs

Carbon Constrained, Demand Driven — The Oil Sands in a Divided Energy World

Emissions Trading: A Briefs Negative Resume

The Long-Term Future for Energy Resources’ Exploitation

The Eye of the Beholder – Oil Sands Calamity or Golden Opportunity?

The Fed's Reserve Elasticity Tracker: A July 2025 Snapshot

Is the Age of Oil Coming to an End?

The Russo-Ukrainian Gas Dispute of January 2009: A Comprehensive Assessment

Beyond Sentiment: Nuclear Energy and the Future of Power

The Real Price of Power: Strait Myths, Sanctions Games, and the LNG Cold War

The Evolution of the Russian Oil Industry (1860–2012): A Summary and Contemporary Reflection

The Response of Global Oil Inventories to Supply Shocks

Energy Price Forecasting During Disequilibrium: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights?

Book Review: Options Trading For Dummies by Joe Duarte

Forecasting World Oil and Gas Production Under Strong Economic Constraints

Review: “Escalation in Iran Bodes Ill for the Economy”

Review of “Commodities and Conundrums: Decoding Behavioural Finance in Market Dynamics”

Review of Energy Quantamentals: A Tale of Two Algorithms and OPEC+

A Pipeline Through a Troubled Land

Rethinking Oil Inventories: Spread Options and the Structure of Crude Markets

Kinew Revives Northern Export Dream: Oil Through Hudson Bay Back on the Table

Order from Tariff Chaos

Economic Impact of $8 Trillion Investment Pledges in the U.S.

Unlocking Natural Gas Demand in the MENA Region: What the Data Tells Us

Review of “Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar”

Review of _“Myths and Mysteries About Speculation in the Oil Market” by Dr. Ilia Bouchouev and Wu-Yen (Jonathan) Sun

A Review of Nuclear Fuel Banks: Moscow, Washington To Lead On“Mergers”

Understanding Crude Oil Prices

The Immediate Need to Qualify Carbon Sequestration in Depleted Hydrocarbon Reservoirs for Tax Credits

Grangemouth Closure: A Wake-Up Call for UK Energy Security

Forecasts on Saudi Arabia liquids production

The Oil “Price Rise” Factor in the Iraq War: A Macroeconomic Assessment

A Review of "Climate Change, the Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation"

The National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada: A brief history

The USA's Grand Masterplan for Trade

Is U.S. Tariff Policy Truly Chaotic? A Data-Driven Look Inside Momentum and Perception

Iraq’s Oil Industry: Five Years of Occupation

A Review of "The Oil Depletion Protocol"

Happy Easter

Revisiting Empirical Macroeconomics with Robert Barro (Harvard Economics Professor)

Is U.S. Tariff Policy Truly Chaotic? A Data-Driven Look Inside Momentum and Perception

Happy Easter!

THE SUM OF MANY HOPES AND FEARS ABOUT THE ENERGY RESOURCES OF THE MIDDLE EAST*

Review and update: Our Fair ‘Economic’ Share – Tristone’s Alberta Royalty Review Assessment

Another Smooth Day in the Fed’s Securities Lending Operation – April 10, 2025

What Is Energy Security? Part 5/5

Securing New Markets in Asia: The Value of Strategic Spot Crude Oil Sales to Teapot Refiners

DISCUSSING BRAZIL’S NUCLEAR FUTURE

Trade Wars--a contrarian positive perspective

Review of "A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility"

Eid Mubarak

Cutting the Gordian knot

What Is Energy Security? Part 4/5

What Is Energy Security? Part 3/5

The Evolution of Russia's Oilfield Service Industry Amid Geopolitical Challenges

What Is Energy Security? Part 2/5

What Is Energy Security? Part I/5

A negotiation strategy to obtain a natural gas pipeline Alaska...

STILL ANOTHER LOOK AT GLOBAL WARMING

Volume Risk

Ramadan Mubarak

State of Denial

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR REGINA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Renewable corn-ethanol and energy security*

UNITIZING OIL AND GAS FIELDS AROUND THE WORLD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL LAWS AND PRIVATE CONTRACTS

Happy Valentine's Day

A Review of "Financial Technology and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Role of Social Networks"

Review of 'The World Crude Oil Storage Index as a Predictor of Price Trends'

Understanding Risk Premiums in Oil and Gas Inventories --

OPEC+ Stays the Course: Key Takeaways from the 58th JMMC Meeting

MORE FACTS AND FICTIONS ABOUT THE WORLD OIL SCENE

Paying at the Pump: Gasoline Taxes in America

Who Really Gains from Tariffs?

Need for a Balancing Act: Reducing Oil Dependence without Triggering a Global Crisis

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Defending the SPR Response to the Cato Institute essay “The case against the strategic petroleum Reserve”

Article Review: Exploring Volatility Trading with the Quadratic Normal Model in the Oil Options Market

Natural gas integration in Latin America: Moving forward or backward?

The Law of Unintended Consequences: A Change in the Value of Brent

SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE RUSSIAN GAS PUZZLE

Challenges and Opportunities in Sino-DPRK Energy Cooperation

China’s Debate over Vietnam’s Reforms

The new Security environment for European Gas: Worsening Geopolitics and Increasing Global Competition for LNG

The Fall Of The Assad Regime Could Unsettle The Oil Market

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