OGPSS - Ukraine moves to escape Gazprom's grip

You know it is winter when Russia and Ukraine publically row about supplies of natural gas. On Tuesday Ukraine completed the signing of an ...

OGPSS - future promise of production from Romania

There are violent protests taking place in Bucharest, Romania which carry with them the threat of destabilizing the government, as we have ...

Gazprom and Ukraine - natural gas and the shale gas potential

Well now that is interesting. Quietly, while everyone’s attention was, increasingly focused either on the British Election or the oil spi...

Gasoline, crude, supplies and miles travelled

This winter has been a little harder, in the sense of snow on the road, than some I have experienced in the past. Which may explain, to a d...

The Russia:Belarus oil dispute and Western Oil supplies

I hadn’t actually been paying much attention to the Russian:Belarus dispute over oil supplies. After the annual debacles that we are used t...

Russia, Ukraine and the annual gas game

There is a developing tradition at the end of the year, in which Russia gets into a spat with Ukraine about the payment of the Ukrainian gas...

P61. Pick Points

A few stories of interest to start off the week. When I wrote about the EIA Energy Conference last week I had promised that I would make a b...

P55. Pick Points

Given the size of a couple of the stories a little less than half-a-dozen stories of interest today: Redoubt, the volcano in Alaska that wa...

P49. Pick Points

Sometimes there are situations that don’t know when to quit. So it is with the Ukraine:Russia dispute over gas. Today Prime Minister Putin...

P23. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen, or so, stories of interest. Time was when the word Audit would strike fear, since it was (and perhaps still is) associated wit...

P21. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. When the normal supplies of fuel are cut-off, as electricity has become intermittent in Pakistan, an...

P20. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. So is the Russian:Ukrainian story over for another year, or ten ? Certainly it has lost the press...

P19. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Well the Russian:Ukrainian dispute may be over , though nobody is as yet certain that the agreement...

P18. Pick Points

Haf-a-dozen or so stories of interest: For some unknown reason the Russian news site, Kommersant , has stopped publishing in English, and s...