Five years ago, I co-authored a book called “The Next Gulf- London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria”, that  - as the title suggested - looked at the interlinked nature of oil politics from America, the UK and West Africa.
In part the book details the grievances of the people of the Niger Delta - one [...]

Years ago, when the environmental organisation Greenpeace was running a campaign against Ford in the UK, the liberal Guardian newspaper refused to run one of Greenpeace’s anti-Ford adverts.
At the time, Ford was one of the largest advertisers in the Guardian and it threatened to pull all its adverts if the Guardian ran the Greenpeace ad.
It [...]

Finally people are waking up to the concept that the fossil fuel industry’s supposedly wonder transition fuel – gas – may not be so green after all.
It’s a subject I have covered on this blog before, notably questioning just how green shale gas is, but now the idea is getting some serious traction.  

As the shale gas boon sweeps America, there is a key battle going on between the oil and gas industry and environmentalists about the environmental impact of fracturing.
Fracturing  - where chemicals, sand and water are used to separate the gas from rocks - has been used in oil and gas drilling for decades, but such [...]

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, [...]