Saudi-US energy ties adapt to multipolar world

Explainer: Iran’s indispensable energy role

The country’s global energy importance and domestic political fate are interlocked, highlighting its outsized oil and gas powers, and the heightened fallout risk

Oil’s tanker transformation

The global maritime oil transport sector enters 2026 facing a rare convergence of crude oversupply, record newbuild deliveries and the potential easing of several geopolitical disruptions that have shaped trade flows since 2022

Letter from the US: The curse of strong energy exports

Rebuilding industry, energy dominance and lower energy costs are key goals that remain at odds in 2026

Venezuela mismanaged its oil, and US shale benefitted

Chavez’s socialist reforms boosted state control but pushed knowledge and capital out of the sector, opening the way for the US shale revolution

Europe’s rising energy security challenge

Across Europe, countries have grappled with balancing ambitious energy transition plans with realities about security of supply

OPEC’s discipline sets tone for 2026

OPEC+ remains on track as output falls, with only Gabon failing to hit its output targets in December, although Kazakhstan’s compliance was involuntary

Venezuela’s true oil potential

The Latin American producer’s crude prospects rely on a multi-pronged approach where even the relatively easy wins will take considerable time, effort and cost

Outlook 2006: The North Sea’s next chapter – From backbone to blueprint

The next five years will be critical for the North Sea, and it will be policy not geology that will decide the basin’s future

Outlook 2026: How critical mineral partnerships are shaping ASEAN’s energy transition

The global race for critical minerals has become a defining feature of energy geopolitics, presenting the ASEAN region with both opportunity and risk

Outlook 2026: Time for a new international energy order

With the arrival of a multipolar world and 4b energy-poor people, the existing energy order is no longer fit for purpose

Saudi-US energy ties adapt to multipolar world

Saudi Arabia and US relations can construct a new ‘field of dreams’, but opportunism may be the new rules of the game