On a recent morning in central China, workers in blue jumpsuits and white masks placed clamps around a bar of shiny metal and fed it into a powerful cutting machine. The bar…
Elliott Discloses Stake in Takeover Target Noble Energy
Activist investor Elliott Management Corp. has taken a stake in Noble Energy Inc., the energy explorer that agreed in July to sell to Chevron Corp. for about $5 billion. The stake was disclosed in a filing Tuesday…
How to Fix East Med Border Disputes
The Eastern Mediterranean is once again at the center of what can go wrong when countries fail to resolve decades-old disputes over offshore Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). On the face of it,…
Climate Hawks Urge Biden to Shun Obama-Era Energy Moderates
Climate-change activists are pressuring Joe Biden to distance himself from former Obama administration advisers they view as either too moderate or too cozy with the fossil-fuel industry, a sign of disunity on…
بعد التوتر اليوناني – التركي حول النفط: بارودي يحذر من نزاع مسلّح جدّي
تصاعدت التوترات بين اليونان وتركيا في الفترة الأخيرة بعدما أرسلت أنقرة سفينة للتنقيب عن النفط بالقرب من منطقة تطالب بها أثينا. خبير الطاقة الدولي رودي بارودي أجرى في حديث لـ”سبوتنيك”، تقييماً للوضع…
Conflit maritime gréco-turc: «les tensions pourraient conduire à un réel conflit armé»
La tension est à son comble entre la Grèce et la Turquie depuis l’envoi par Ankara d’un navire de recherche près d’une zone revendiquée par Athènes. Selon Roudi Baroudi, expert en énergie…
EU Members Protest U.S. Sanctions After Nord Stream Threats
Twenty-four European Union countries complained to the U.S. State Department this week over President Donald Trump’s expansive use of sanctions to help influence American foreign policy goals, according to a European diplomat…
Doha and New Delhi should explore possibilities of a natural gas pipeline: Official
Doha and New Delhi should explore possibilities of a natural gas pipeline and Qatar could be India’s “strategic food reserve”; according to Suresh Prabhu, India’s Sherpa to the G20 and a former…
OPEC trims 2020 oil demand, sees doubts about 2021 on virus fallout
OPEC said on Wednesday that world oil demand will fall more steeply in 2020 than previously forecast due to the pandemic and there were uncertainties about next year’s recovery. World oil demand…