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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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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
The ruins of homes along the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Milton passed through the area in Manasota Key, Florida. Getty Images
Why West must prepare for climate migration

The accelerating flight of large numbers of people will worsen social tensions and have powerful and unpredictable political consequences

ClimateOctober 14, 2024
An Israeli warplane takes off from an unidentified location on a mission into southern Lebanon in September. If Israel continues to extend its reach in to Iran, the consequences could be felt worldwide. Reuters
Israeli attacks on Iran energy would have global consequences

An energy war would cut supplies by 12 million barrels of oil a day, says Iran-backed Iraqi militia

EnergyOctober 07, 2024
The pain of lower oil prices would be immediate, the uncertainties immense, but the long-term result far preferable. Reuters
Why Opec's next move needs to focus on long-term objective

In the short term, production cuts can maximise revenue, however, in the longer term, they become increasingly dangerous

EnergySeptember 30, 2024
Activists at the Supreme Court ahead of its ruling in June that the environmental assessment of an onshore oil project in Surrey should also consider the emissions from burning its oil and gas. Getty Images
The policy contradiction facing Britain's energy sector

Legacy industry in trouble as pressure from the government and climate groups mounts

EnergySeptember 23, 2024
Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi before their meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday, September 9. AFP
India shines as an energy opportunity for Gulf amid China slowdown

India oil imports are the largest after China

EnergySeptember 16, 2024
The Liberia-flagged liquefied petroleum gas tanker Navigator Gemini at the liquid gas wharf in Iraq's southern port of Umm Qasr on September 4. AFP
Iraq's excessive oil output poses challenges for Opec

Three countries submit compensation plans to deal with past overproduction

EnergySeptember 09, 2024
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