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Opinion: OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?

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If you are the world’s leading energy economy, you produce energy, that’s what you do.”. “A The defense spending for 2011, 2012, and 2013 draws on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) Military Expenditure Database Constant U.S. by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com. “If If You’re a Free Range Oil Producer.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. mmbbl/day) in 2013. They pose an existential threat to the industry and therefore to the Russian economy: The revenues Russia can earn from its crude and natural gas exports face intense pressure. Russia supplied about 30 percent (146.6

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