Recent Publications

• Oil Prices: Energy Investment, Political Stability in the Exporting Countries and OPEC’s Dilemma, with Matthew Hulbert, Programme Paper, October 2012
• The 'Shale Gas Revolution': Developments and Changes, Briefing Paper, August 2012
• The Arab Uprisings and the International Oil Markets, Briefing Paper, February 2012
• Maritime Choke Points and the Global Energy System: Charting a Way Forward, with Charles Emmerson, Briefing Paper, January 2012
• An Embargo on Iranian Crude Oil Exports: How Likely and with what Impact?, Programme Paper, January 2012
• Ignore the Hyperbole on Hormuz: Embargoes don't Work, Financial Times, January 2012
• 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Aramco – The Jewel in the Crown'. In D G Victor, D R Hults, Mark Thurber (Eds) Oil and Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2012
• 'Kuwait: Kuwait Petroelum Company – An Enterprise in Gridlock'. In D G Victor, D R Hults, Mark Thurber (Eds) Oil and Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2012
• Appendix on depletion. In D G Victor, D R Hults, Mark Thurber (Eds) Oil and Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2012
• 'Cooperation between Producers and Consumers'. In (Ed.) Robert E Looney. A Handbook of Oil Politics. Routledge, 2011
• Burning Oil to Keep Cool: The Hidden Energy Crisis in Saudi Arabia, Programme Report, with Glada Lahn, December 2011
• The Arguments For and Against the Switch from Oil and Gas to Nuclear?, presentation made at the conference 'Energy Security Concerns in the Region', Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies: Stategic Forum, Rome, December 2011
• Caspian Oil and Gas: A Twenty Year Retrospective with Lessons on the Arrogance of Prediction, 4th Paul Bergne Memorial Lecture, Oxford, May 2011
• The 'Shale Gas Revolution': Hype and Reality, Chatham House Report, September 2010
• Unconventional Gas: Cheap Gas Coming?, The World Today, August 2010
• Cycles and the International Oil Industry: Where are we Today?, World Petroleum Council: Official Publication 2010, 2010
• Oil Agreements: Implications for Future Oil Supplies from the Gulf, Presentation, Energy Security in the Gulf Challenges and Prospects, ECSSR 15th Annual Energy Conference, Abu Dhabi, November 2009
• Transit Troubles: Pipelines as a Source of Conflict, Chatham House Report, 2009
• The Coming Oil Supply Crunch, Chatham House Report, 2008
• Ending Dependence: Hard Choices for Oil-Exporting States, with John V Mitchell, Chatham House Report, 2008
• 'Resource Nationalism and the Role of National Oil Companies in the Middle East: History and Prospects', Journal of World Energy Law and Business, Volume 1, Number 1, 2008
• 'Resource Curse: An Analysis of Causes, Experiences and Possible Ways Forward', With E Dietsche, Energy Policy, Volume 36 Number 1, January 2008
• 'Investing in Oil in the Middle East and North Africa: Institutions, Incentives and the National Oil Companies', ESMAP, The World Bank, Washington DC, August, 2007
• 'The Oil Market', in Helm D, The New Energy Paradigm, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
• 'Resource Curse and How to Avoid It', Journal of Energy and Development, Volume XXXI Number 1, Autumn, 2005

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