Economic Pain Looms Large for Iranians in Nuclear Negotiations
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
President Hassan Rouhani has pledged a bright economic future to follow the lifting of sanctions, but his promises are starting to ring hollow as talks stall.
Pemex hopes to shed its reputation as a lumbering oil monopoly and to remake itself into a modern company that can compete with the world’s biggest firms.
President Hassan Rouhani has pledged a bright economic future to follow the lifting of sanctions, but his promises are starting to ring hollow as talks stall.
Despite the imposition of sanctions against Russia by the United States and the European Union, Moscow has vowed that drilling will continue.
After nearly 50 years of production, time is running out to fix and upgrade operations in the North Sea, industry executives and analysts say.
The emirate has allowed longstanding concessions to major global oil companies to expire, and is considering replacing some of them with partners from Asia and elsewhere.
Whether at household operations or at industrial facilities, a centuries-old technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from crop waste, kitchen scraps and sewage.
Much of the muscle-flexing over disputed waters in the region is political. But China is also interested in the oil and natural gas that might lie below the waters.
Supporters of a proposed facility in Wales say that sea-based arrays could provide as much as 10 percent of Britain’s power within a decade.
Much of Eastern Europe is vulnerable to cutoffs of gas, oil or coal by Moscow, a situation that has become more urgent with the crisis in Ukraine.
The weak results at the Russian state-owned company Rosneft, in which BP holds a 20 percent stake, also contributed to the third-quarter decline.
A floating factory for converting liquefied natural gas into the burnable variety represents a direct challenge to the Russian way of doing business.
Kurdish officials are desperately trying to sell oil abroad, even as the Iraqi government and the United States are blocking their attempts.
The varied energy needs and capacity of member nations led to concessions and compromises that experts say watered down an agreement meant to pressure other countries at climate talks in 2015.
As production innovations produce a glut, America moves to the once-unthinkable; exporting petroleum.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
How hyper-reactive quarantine steps in the United States could worsen the Ebola epidemic in Africa — and perhaps beyond.