Matthew Hulbert (32)

| Gazprom has done it: with the final decision to build South Stream, they have the won battle against the EU for the Southern Corridor. Surel...

| Nobody has quite dared to pose the question, but why is Rosneft apparently willing to pay $28bn for the AAR oligarch's 50% stake in TNK-BP,...

| European countries should firmly resist any move made by the US and G7 to release strategic oil reserves in the current situation. Such blat...

| Just when you thought it was a good time for summer vacations, China has been busy rewriting the upstream acquisitions script, and doing so...

| President Putin is back, but this time he faces daunting challenges on the energy front. The easy times throughout the 2000s when prices wer...

| Oil prices have rapidly dropped in recent months, and some analysts predict a further (steep) decline. This might seem like good news to con...

| While policymakers and pundits debate which pipeline consortium will bring Azeri gas to European markets through the Southern Corridor, they...

| The nationalisation of Spanish oil producer Repsol's Argentinian assets cannot be seen in isolation. It points to a much wider problem for m...

| Lulled by dreams of energy independence, the US thought it could slap sanctions on Iran without having to pay a price at the pump. That has...

| With Presidential elections approaching, and oil prices showing no signs of dropping, the temptation for the Obama Administration to release...