Should governments in the Middle East that are allied, or at least aligned, with the US be more concerned for their security following the final US withdrawal from Afghanistan? Or, at least, no more than they were before recent images from Kabul airp...

OPEC has pulled an eleventh-hour rabbit out of the hat many times before, and it will need to do so again to bring the UAE back into the fold this time. The UAE is the fourth-largest producer in OPEC+ and wants its quota to reflect the over 20% capac...

The oil market is relieved that on 1st June OPEC+ stuck to its existing trajectory for easing output restraint and that there does not appear to be an imminent signature of a new Iran Nuclear Deal. This leaves a supply shortfall of 0.9mbpd into which...

Old-fashioned "Big Oil" proponents, who always argue for pushing out the date for "peak oil", suffered three setbacks on 26 May from the climate activist and ESG investor camp. Exxon Mobil saw nominations of two new Board members (out of twelve) to r...

The IEA published its opinion (18 May) on how the world can transition to an energy supply system with overall zero emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050 in order to meet the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting the increase in global temper...

Yalla Group, the MENA-focused social network company, faced two damning reports from short sellers on the same day, and the stock fell 7% to its lowest level in 2021. Yalla's audit partner is inexperienced and has a history of auditing companies embr...