The British military may be gone, but the British oilmen are back. Today is the day that the oil men from BP take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield: Rumaila.
It is the first important oil deal since the 2003 invasion, and a long time since 1961 when Iraq passed Law 80 that wrestled back 99.5 per [...]

Tomorrow is the “Great Climate Swoop” where hundreds of climate activists will demonstrate against E.ON’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottingham.
It is a protest aimed at raising the issue of climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen Summit in December.
But the planned protest has caused  a strong backlash from the Police. Already there are increasing reports [...]

For all the people who dared to dream that some kind of deal could be realised at Copenhagen comes the cold reality that time is basically running out.  Fast. And there is less than sixty days to go.
The Bangkok talks have ended in failure. The gap between what is needed and what the current negotiationing [...]

When the final chapter of the dying days of the hydrocarbon age is written, the petro-politics of one nation will probably have more bearing on the outcome than any other.
Whether you are reading about Africa, Canada or the Middle East -  the country of concern will be China. (Also see Friday’s blog about the Chinese [...]

So the great Iraqi oil sell-off continues. The embattled Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani will today unveil the next round of oil contracts at a conference in Istanbul.
Al-Shahristani is under pressure to pull in investment after the Iraqi government’s first round only secured one deal for the vast Rumaila field: BP and China National Petroleum [...]