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Analysis


  • America’s missing barrels

    It’s a mystery worthy of a detective novel: as US consumption patterns have changed, an estimated 4 million barrels a day of the country’s oil demand has simply vanished. Shaun Polczer investigates

  • Bolivia’s gas conundrum

    On May Day, it will be six years since President Evo Morales nationalised Bolivia’s gas sector. The anniversary offers Morales the opportunity to hail the success of his strategy in boosting production, but has it also sown the seeds of the sector’s long-term decline? Justin Jacobs reports.


  • Iraq's devils lie in the details

    Iraqi oil production is rising, offering hope to the global market. But until the country resolves its political and logistical problems that optimism may prove misplaced, writes Derek Brower

  • Argentina’s energy woes deepen

    Despite the huge discoveries, don’t expect unconventional oil and gas to drag Argentina out of its energy-import problem just yet, says Justin Jacobs

  • Rocky road to Argentine shale riches

    The Vaca Muerta shale play could transform Argentina’s energy sector. But the government needs a strategy to ensure investment arrives, says Justin Jacobs



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Latest issue: May 2012

Japan’s bitter pill

The Japanese government has declared two reactors safe to restart. Now it must convince a traumatised Japanese public that nuclear remains the best route to recovery.


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