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Robin Mills

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Robin M. Mills is chief executive of Qamar Energy, and author of The Myth of the Oil Crisis
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US President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One during a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Miami, Florida. Reuters
Business InsightsTrump is giving China control of future energy with his policies

US President withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change in his first few days back in the Oval Office

EnergyJanuary 27, 2025
The Dhafra solar power plant near Abu Dhabi. Solar photovoltaic power in the Middle East has achieved very low costs. Bloomberg
Business InsightsBattery storage allows the Sun to shine in the day and at night

Abu Dhabi’s new giant solar and battery combination will provide electricity around the clock

EnergyJanuary 20, 2025
Destroyed Russian military vehicles in Kyiv. The lack of money will increasingly weaken Russia's war effort this year, and could in turn, impact its energy industries. AFP
Business InsightsRussia may be approaching the limits of war production

At a budgeted $142bn for this year, military spending equates to more than half of last year’s energy export earnings

EnergyJanuary 13, 2025
A gas regulator outside a building in Tehran on December 17, 2024. The Tehran Chamber of Trade Unions and Guilds decided to limit opening hours in an effort to tackle severe energy shortages. AFP
Business insightsWhat can Iran do to escape one of its worst energy crises?

Islamic Republic faces the most challenging time in its history since the 1988 war with Iraq

EnergyJanuary 06, 2025
Electricity will be the bright spark next year. Not just AI, but heat pumps, air-conditioning, electric transport and electrified industry will push its use. Reuters
Business InsightsEnergy trends that will shape the industry in 2025

Climate change, rapid progress of new energy technologies, the rise of electricity-hungry uses such as AI, lower international co-operation and trade growth will be key intersecting trends next year

EnergyDecember 30, 2024
The emirate’s mountains offer a key geographic advantage for its energy ambitions. Khushnum Bhandari / The National
Ras Al Khaimah is blazing its own energy path

New ventures in exploration and sustainable energy technologies signal growth for the emirate

BusinessDecember 23, 2024
A Syrian man works at a makeshift refinery near Al Bab, Aleppo province in 2022. During the war, oil was refined in primitive and polluting local centres. AFP
Business InsightsWhat will happen to Syrian oil after Assad?

Bringing back oil output would help meet some government revenues but require tricky negotiations

EnergyDecember 16, 2024
Opec+ introduced the cuts of 2 million barrels per day in October 2022. Reuters
CommentWhat if Opec+ had chosen not to cut oil output two years ago?

The caps have allowed production in non-member countries to rise

EnergyDecember 09, 2024
An aurora borealis appears over pumpjacks in Alberta. Canada provides more than half of US oil imports and almost all gas imports. The Canadian Press via AP, File
Business insightsTariffs are bad economics but good politics

Energy investors, producers and consumers will have to contend with flows of oil, gas and minerals that are driven by politics more than economics

EnergyDecember 02, 2024
The conclusions of a long-awaited US Department of Energy study, due this week, could be important for liquefied natural gas in the long term. Reuters
CommentKey decisions on energy policy should not be made on misleading data

About two-thirds of global warming is currently driven by emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil, gas, forests and heating limestone to make cement

EnergyNovember 25, 2024
A Moroccan shepherd checks his mobile phone sitting on cracked earth at the dried-up Al Massira dam 140 kilometres south of Casablanca. This year will almost certainly be the hottest on record. AFP / File
CommentThe 1.5°C climate target is dead. It's time to rethink

A cumbersome multilateral process is moving at a lumbering pace, but there's still time to limit the damage to our planet

EnergyNovember 18, 2024
Boosting energy efficiency is a key driver for the industry, according to executives at Adipec, the world’s biggest energy conference, held in Abu Dhabi last week. Antonie Robertson/The National
CommentAI can help deliver the cleaner and cheaper energy needed for the future

Breakthroughs in technology might deliver an energy system centred on atoms or molecules rather than electrons

EnergyNovember 11, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Reuters
Trump and Harris energy policies weigh in on final election days

Donald Trump's position is hostile to most green energy policies, while Kamala Harris seeks to expand renewable investments

EnergyNovember 04, 2024
Ashti Hawrami served as Iraqi Kurdistan's first minister of natural resources. Reuters
Iraqi Kurdistan's oil sector must move on from legacy of Ashti Hawrami

Known for spearheading the rise of the region to become an oil hotspot, he also faced several controversies

EnergyOctober 28, 2024
A cooling tower at the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Bloomberg
How the rise of data centres is leading to a nuclear renaissance

Commitments by tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon underpin urgency to meet vast energy requirements

EnergyOctober 21, 2024
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