Let's Make a Deal
Some Measure of Peace in Iraq?

Baghdad and Erbil have buried the hatchet over a long-running oil revenue dispute.

Crude Economics
The Shale Retrenchment Begins

New well permits fell almost 40 percent from October to November as shale producers adjusted course to account for plunging oil prices.

Pipeline Politics
Vlad Kills South Stream Pipeline

Putin blamed the EU for the project’s failure, and talked up Turkey as a new final destination.

Gazproblems
Are Russians Funding Fracking Protests?

Circumstantial evidence tying Moscow to anti-fracking protests is mounting.

Crude Economics
Scottish Nationalists Lose as Oil Markets Crash

Cheap oil is corroding the economic case for an independent Scotland.

Isn't It Ironic?
Oil Producers Throw Lifeline to Struggling Green Tech

A Canadian carbon capture and storage system, the first of its kind, is only viable because of oil production.

Podcast
Chuck Hagel, “Sacrificial Lamb”

Dov Zakheim says Chuck Hagel was this administration’s “sacrificial lamb,” and argues Obama’s foreign policy agenda has been handled “very poorly.”

Turbines Kill Birds
What Big Wind Doesn’t Want You To Know

An Oregon wind energy firm is suing in federal court to hide information about birds found dead on its wind farms.

More R&D Please
Google Engineers: Today’s Green Tech Not Good Enough

After Google’s renewable energy project failed after just four years, two of the company’s engineers conduct a post-mortem.

Crude Economics
Russia Floats Oil-Production Cut

Moscow is considering cutting its oil output in an attempt to stop the global price slide, but may not be up to the task.

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