The United States looks ready to surpass Saudi Arabia as the number one producer of liquid petroleum for the first time in some 23 years. Who saw this coming?

Drilling productivity in Texas’s Eagle Ford formation continues to improve, as drillers perfect their techniques and get more oil out of every well.

TAI editor Adam Garfinkle will be conducting an Ask Me Anything—a crowd-sourced interview hosted on the website reddit—tomorrow at 2 p.m. EDT. Start thinking of questions you’d like to ask him about the Syrian conflict now!

Russia requires high oil prices in order to balance its budget, but crude prices have been dropping recently, despite supply disruptions in the Middle East and North Africa. What’s at play? In a word, fracking.

Germany’s grand energy transition was like something out of an environmentalist’s dream at the outset, but initial enthusiasm for the growth of renewable energy has given way to the harsher realities of a country more reliant on coal than ever.

Hungary announced that it will stop reselling Russian gas to Ukraine just days after Gazprom’s CEO met with the country’s Prime Minister. Divide-and-conquer is an old and very effective tactic being put to very good use in Europe these days.

India’s Environment Minister recently asserted his country’s right to grow (and emit), saying India’s greenhouse gas emissions will realistically continue to rise for the next thirty years.

The Italian energy company ENI won the rights to develop new oil and gas fields in Egypt. That’s good news for Egypt, which has experienced a sharp drop in gas production recently. It’s also a sign that Italy is looking to become more active in North Africa.

The head of the Energy Information Administration said in a recent interview that without new supplies of American oil, supply disruptions abroad would have sent the price of oil skyrocketing by as much as 50 percent. As if we needed another reason to be thankful for the U.S. shale revolution.

This weekend’s march in New York City was presumably meant to show support for policies aimed at addressing climate change. Why, then, did so many protestors hoist anti-fracking signs?