Posts in November 2011

  • Middle_East_Uprisings

    Oil and Democracy Don’t Mix

    Nov01

    I remember years ago going to a lecture by a senior executive from Premier Oil about operating in Burma and he said that oil men liked working in authoritarian regimes as they were much more predictable than democracies.  Ironically they were more stable. Over the last year, the Arab spring has challenged this concept to…
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