Pardon the title, but the Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting interview with the top dog at Shell, Peter Voser.
He admits that Shell is fast becoming a gas company rather than an oil company. “Shell started quite a while back, actually, to put a lot of emphasis on gas” says Voser. “And by 2012, [...]

Change may only happen in small steps, but slowly and surely the geo-politics of oil are changing.
The dynamics of Middle Eastern oil are in transition. Anyone who argued that the war in the Gulf was a war about oil should sit up and take notice.  And anyone concerned about the climate should also be worried. [...]

BP may think that a demand crunch will happen before a supply crunch.
But others disagree. Today, six UK leading companies have launched the second report of the UK Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security.
The report, entitled “The Oil Crunch - a wake-up call for the UK economy”, argues that oil shortages, insecurity of [...]

Predicting political speeches is always fraught with difficulty, but there have been enough leaks to suggest that Barack Obama’s State of Union address will  scale back his ambitious plans on both health-care as well as climate change.
Instead the President will focus on the economy and helping recession-hit families.
Although the White House has denied Obama is [...]

One year on and its not looking so good for Obama. How the political land-scape can change in a year..
The Democrats are in deep political shock this morning as a truck-driving lawyer, Scott Brown took the prized seat of Massachusetts.
Scott Brown’s previous greatest claim to fame was winning Cosmopolitan’s America’s Sexiest Man competition in June [...]