Oil & Gas

Even in a more carbon-conscious world, oil and gas will continue to play a significant role in the global energy system. From petrochemicals to power generation, oil and gas technologies will be a central player in the “dual challenge” of meeting increased energy demand and the need for low-carbon energy, making oil and gas still critical for international trade, investment, and geopolitics.

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Lyons’ Report “Produced Water: Asset or Waste?” Featured

UkraineAlert
Apr 9, 2025

Putin’s Arctic ambitions: Russia eyes natural resources and shipping routes

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Bohdan Ustymenko

Russia’s plans to expand its influence in the Arctic region and dominate the Northern Sea Route together with China pose serious security challenges for the international community, writes Bohdan Ustymenko.

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Conflict

Lyons’ Report “Produced Water: Asset or Waste?” Featured

EnergySource
Mar 28, 2025

Nord Stream could divide Europe yet again 

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Michał Kurtyka

Washington’s potential reset with Moscow, amid Ukraine peace negotiations, has revived discussions on the future of Nord Stream 2. Whether the Trump administration would cede its LNG market in Europe to Russian pipeline exports remains to be seen. For Europe, however, reopening the pipeline would be a costly mistake.

Eastern Europe
Economy & Business

Lyons’ Report “Produced Water: Asset or Waste?” Featured

MENASource
Mar 13, 2025

Why now is the right time for ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran’s oil exports

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Scott Modell

Iran is more vulnerable than it has been in decades; the United States can deliver a decisive blow to Tehran and set the stage for a more stable and secure future.

Defense Policy
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Global Energy Forum

Mar 28, 2022

Senior US energy official Amos Hochstein on the West’s response to Russia and ‘critical need’ to diversify its energy supply

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Atlantic Council

Europe and the United States are joining to ensure that more countries come on board with sanctions and that their sanctions deal the biggest blow to Russia.


Climate Change & Climate Action

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Global Energy Forum

Mar 28, 2022

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq is willing to make up for energy shortfalls in Europe, says prime minister

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Atlantic Council

Iraqi Kurdistan has achieved great strides, producing half a million barrels of oil and half a billion cubic feet of gas daily. But its tension with the federal government in Baghdad raises questions.


Crisis Management

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Global Energy Forum

Mar 28, 2022

Europe must confront Russia’s weaponization of oil and gas, say energy leaders

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Atlantic Council

Balancing short-term responses to the energy crisis of the moment while insulating from future energy-security risks will frame the next stage in the energy crisis for policymakers.


Climate Change & Climate Action

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Jun 3, 2014

Lyons’ Report “Produced Water: Asset or Waste?” Featured

By Blythe Lyons

The Energy Collective features a report on “produced water” authored by Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Energy and Enivronment Program Blythe Lyons:

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Issue Brief

Apr 28, 2014

The Impact of US Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on Central and Eastern Europe’s Energy Security

By Péter Kaderják, László Paizs, Adrienn Selei, Borbála Tóth

The unfolding political crisis between Ukraine and Russia poses an immediate gas supply security risk for Europe, but especially for Central Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic States, and South East Europe (SEE). This new issue brief, authored by Péter Kaderják, László Paizs, Adrienn Selei, and Borbála Tóth of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

New Atlanticist

Mar 6, 2014

How to Save the Shale Revolution

By Robert A. Manning

Enlightened state regulators, a coalition of the willing, and continued improvements in technology together hold promise for elevating best practices around fracking to the status of new norms. “We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game on the shale revolution in the United States,” Conoco CEO Ryan Lance recently boldly predicted. Given the dramatic impact […]

Energy & Environment Oil and Gas

New Atlanticist

Jul 25, 2013

US, China Drift Toward Zero Sum

By Robert A. Manning

For all the soaring rhetoric of the Obama-Xi Summit about the US and China committing to forge a bold, new partnership and avoiding a 1914-like stumbling into conflict, one could be forgiven for thinking the bilateral relationship is lapsing into a “same old, same old” ritualistic diplomacy.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2013

Methane Hydrates: A Second Gas Revolution?

By Robert Manning

Speculation is rampant that a new gas cornucopia is coming. After a successful Japanese experiment to extract natural gas from methane hydrates 1,000 meters below the surface and 50 miles off its shores, some are beginning to wonder if the “shale revolution” was just the beginning. But don’t hold your breath. There is no question […]

Energy & Environment Japan

New Atlanticist

Mar 22, 2013

Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Never-ending Foreplay?

By David Koranyi

As the officially anointed Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first state visit abroad to Moscow, speculations are abound about a long-awaited breakthrough in energy relations between the two giants. Caution, however is warranted. The honeymoon in Russo-Chinese energy relations has been elusive and progress rather slow and uneven in the past years. China’s […]

China Energy & Environment

Event Recap

Mar 11, 2013

European Unconventional Gas Developments: Science, Technology, and Best Practices

By Jason Harmala

From March 11-12, the Atlantic Council and the World Energy Council hosted a workshop which focused on individual countries in East Central Europe to review the progress being made in refining best practices and in addressing environmental concerns and regulatory requirements within Europe.

Energy & Environment Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Feb 27, 2013

The Shale Revolution: Next Phase

By Robert Manning

It had an end of an era feel, when Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy—one of the cutting edge independents that drove the shale revolution—recently retired, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn upped his share of Chesapeake to 8.9 percent.

Energy & Environment Oil and Gas

New Atlanticist

Nov 28, 2012

The Geopolitics of Shale

By Julian Lindley-French

Energy is the stuff of power. Long dead British Socialist Aneurin Bevan once remarked, “This Island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal AND fish at the same time.” Bevan lived in those long-distant days before the EU concentrated such organizing genii in […]

Energy & Environment Oil and Gas

New Atlanticist

Oct 22, 2012

Shale Revolution Shakes the World

By Robert Manning

For all the attention the Shale Revolution has garnered, we are only beginning to see its longer-term impact — and not only in reshaping the energy landscape and raising energy policy questions. The Shale Revolution is also an emerging factor enabling US economic revitalization and impacting long-term geopolitical interests.

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