Can Singapore Land Saudi Aramco (Mother of All IPOs)? Februari 08, 2017 Add Comment Energy, Middle East, Southeast Asia Edit Make it big: Singapore competes for Saudi Aramco's $100B IPO listing. Us Southeast Asians have been closely following the possibility--h... Read More
Trump Makes America #1 Environmental Rogue Regime Again November 13, 2016 Add Comment Americana, Energy Edit Welcome to the coalface, circa 2016 in TrumpWorld. As a lover of conspiracy theories, Donald Trump famously said that climate change is a ho... Read More
Venezuelan Oiler PDVSA: Debt Swap or Bankrupt Oktober 19, 2016 Add Comment China, Energy, Latin America Edit "Delay when we need to pay you back...or we'll default on Oct. 28!" Investor relations, Venezuela-style. When oil prices were ... Read More
Take Oil Inventory Data With a Grain of Salt Juli 26, 2016 Add Comment Energy Edit US oil inventories are more or less known; those of others are a mystery. There is an informative article over at Oilprice.com on the need ... Read More
Baku F1 Race: Global Media is ~169 Years Late Juni 20, 2016 Add Comment Energy, Sports Edit To paraphrase Jenson Button, it's "Baku baby, yeah." As a commentator on third world goings-on first and foremost, it behoove... Read More
Oklahoma Thunder, the Team Fracking Built Mei 25, 2016 Add Comment Energy, Sports Edit It is with some sadness that Aubrey McClendon--the man who brought the Oklahoma Thunder to Oklahoma City--formerly the NBA title-winning Sea... Read More
$315B: Forex Reserves Vaporized by Oil Crash April 20, 2016 Add Comment Energy, Middle East Edit The Doha meeting of oil producers was such a non-event that I did not even bother posting about it despite its obvious political economy con... Read More
Would You Link to China's Global Power Grid? April 04, 2016 Add Comment China, Energy Edit The future? Linking not to a national grid but an international one. Adam Minter over at Bloomberg has an interesting article on how China... Read More