Rex Tillerson On China
February 21, 2017 6 min. read

“We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed.”

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Industry Must Be Part Of The Solution At COP21
October 30, 2015 5 min. read

In the U.S., any discussion involving climate change tends to deteriorate into an argument between two factions—those who feel that climate change is a very real threat to the planet, and those who say it is nothing but a scare tactic.

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For Firms in Northern Iraq, Self-Help Should Be Better than None at All
April 22, 2015 6 min. read

If multinationals were willing to hire PMCs to protect their employees, why did they not use these PMCs to defend their oil fields from ISIS militarily, preventing the fields from falling in the first place?

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The New Scramble
December 28, 2009 4 min. read

If natural gas is so cheap right now, limping along between $2.50 and $5.50 per thousand cubic feet, why did Exxon pay the equivalent of $41 billion for natural gas giant XTO Energy? There is a global glut of natural gas, which won’t be disappearing any time soon. I can think of a couple reasons. […]

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The Year in Review for Energy and Natural Resources
December 18, 2009 4 min. read

Overview 2009 was all about China. Early in the year, when energy prices crashed due to disappearing demand, oil sank to slightly more than $30 barrel from its mid-2008 high of $147 and natural gas from $14 to around $3 per thousand cubic feet. China, flush with cash, for all practical purposes stabilized the market […]

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