Energy supplies
Oil, gas, nuclear, renewables, energy prices, electricity and climate issues. Scenarios, forecasts and analysis from Geopolitical Intelligence Services (GIS) experts on energy trends.
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Energy evolution
While attempts are being made to move away from fossil fuels for energy production, the transition is not happening as efficiently as many predict. New methods of extracting oil and gas have kept these resources cheap and plentiful and have ...
Europe adrift
Brexit is a symptom of the European Union’s internal disarray. In quick succession, the debt crisis, the Ukraine crisis and the migration crisis all challenged centralist visions of ever-deeper integration and soft-power expansion. The political mainstream’s abandonment of traditional values ...
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Kuwait oil: Time to catch up
At first glance, small Kuwait is sitting pretty with one of the largest known oil deposits under its surface, enough to last more than 90 years. The colossal resource earned the emirate its staggering sovereign wealth fund. However, Kuwait’s single-commodity economy faces a longer-term existential threat as the world begins to wean itself off fossil fuels.
The European Green Deal faces huge challenges
The European Commission’s Green Deal sets extremely ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and investing in environmentally friendly technologies. Yet the huge amount of funding that will be required could fail to materialize, due to intra-EU disagreements over budget rules and debt ceilings. And if other big polluters don’t ...
Shadow over Brazil’s oil production outlook
Experts forecast a considerable growth of oil supply in Brazil, but similar predictions turned out to be overly optimistic in the past. For such predictions to become a reality, the Brazilian government would need to remove the regulations that discouraged large and private oil companies from investing during the latest ...
Focus Germany: Balancing the Energiewende
Despite recent failures, the German government is more determined than ever to implement its renewable energy goals, which are much more stringent than those set by the EU. An increase in renewable energy sources will mitigate reliance on foreign energy imports, but Berlin will have to strike a difficult balance ...
Angola’s oil comeback: Cautious optimism
After experiencing a meteoric rise following the end of the civil war in 2002, the Angolan oil industry came tumbling down with the 2008 oil price crash and never recovered. Several recent developments indicate that a partial return to health could be on the horizon – although pre-2008 production will ...
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