Why Putin’s Energy Weapon Failed
In the good old days, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was in his prime and relations with the West were in decent shape, it was common to call Russia “an ...
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Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom
As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis jostled for space on a recently paved street on the outskirts of the capital city. ...
U.S. Sanctions Major Russian Energy Companies
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday levied sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies in what the agency framed as a response to Russia’s failure to commit to a peace ...
Russia’s Oil Earnings May Get Clobbered by OPEC
Europe, Britain, and even the United States, after a fashion, have all stepped up their pressure on Russia’s energy revenues in recent weeks, aiming to bankrupt the Russian war machine. ...
Ukraine Is Hitting Russia Where It Hurts: Its Oil Refineries
Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia at a scale, scope, and intensity not seen before, and in a way that could have consequences—maybe not on the battlefield, but ...
U.S. Ratchets Up Pressure on Iranian Energy
The United States on Thursday dialed up the economic pressure a little more on Iran, with a spate of new sanctions designations meant to curb Iran’s trade in liquefied petroleum ...
How the EU Could Push Hungary and Slovakia to Quit Russian Oil
The European Union appears to be listening to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that it cut off purchases of Russian oil in return for tough U.S. sanctions on Moscow—and experts ...
Europe and the U.S. Still Haven’t Choked Off Russia’s Energy Riches
One would think, three and a half years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that the West could come up with a way to choke off Russia’s energy exports, still the ...
Putin’s Fear of a Humiliating Economic Crisis
No one knows what Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping to achieve when he embarked on a nine-hour flight from Moscow to Alaska to meet U.S. President Donald Trump last ...
As Trump’s Higher India Tariffs Go Into Effect, Oil Markets Shrug
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on so-called secondary tariffs of 25 percent on India to punish the country for buying large volumes of Russian crude oil. This ...
