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| The world was surprised when China emerged in 2004 as a major importer and consumer of oil. Today, that surprise has been replaced by growin...

| Reduced European gas demand recently outlined by the IEA should normally equate to greater levels of ‘energy security’. Matthew Hulbert and...

| November 5 was a major milestone in Nord Stream AG history. Both Sweden and Finland authorized the construction of this seabed gas pipeline...

| Azerbaijan has apparently decided to play its energy card. As much of the world applauded Turkey's historic rapprochement with Armenia last...

| The author shows that the short term outlook for Russia gas supply which has emerged since late 2008 has radically changed due to the global...

| Kazakhstan is eager to create a new route for oil to Europe that bypasses Russia and thereby finally break the Kremlin’s stranglehold on Kaz...

| In Kazakhstan, western oil majors managed to gain hold of some of the world’s largest oil and gas fields. But the Kazakh government is takin...

| Even before Iran’s presidential election, its oil and gas industries were struggling to meet the nation’s energy needs and export aspiration...

| still hazy after all these years Stand on the beach at Assaluyeh in western Iran and look out to sea to the south-west. Roughly 100 km out...

| Prison exchange: Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks back on his choices Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty RFE/RL's Russian Service, together with "N...