Awaiting the Mexican Wave – Challenges to energy reform and raising oil output
This OIES comment analyses the potential impact of the proposed Mexican energy reforms in light of the current state of Mexican oil production.
Étiqueté : oil industry
Russian oil and gas sector in 2012
The oil and gas industry remains the primary sector of the Russian economy playing a leading part in shaping state budget revenues and the trade balance of the country…
NIOC and the State – Commercialization, contestation and consolidation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
While Iran’s oil industry has long been a subject of great interest for academics, industry analysts and the news media surprisingly little attention has been paid to the institutional apparatus of the Iranian hydrocarbon sector and its embeddedness in networks of political power. The institutional embodiment of Iran’s oil industry is the nominally state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). However, this paper argues that the relationships between NIOC and the political claimants that surround it resist simple definition…
Wheel of fortune. The Battle for oil and power in Russia
The Russian oil industry—which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply—is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia’s oil industry, politics, and economy, Thane Gustafson shows how the stakes extend beyond international energy security to include the potential threat of a destabilized Russia…
What next for the oil and gas industry?
The oil and gas industry is under pressures that will transform it. The effect of other industries on oil demand, the increasing opportunities for non-conventional oil and gas that offset perceptions of limits to conventional resources, and the shift of growth to Asia will all compel the industry to look for growth in value rather than volume…
The impact of Russia’s refinery upgrade plans on global fuel oil markets
While higher fuel specifications and regulatory changes in the bunkers market are most likely to have a big impact on long-term fuel oil demand, a structural shift of a similar magnitude on the supply side is already taking place, particularly in Russia, the largest exporter of fuel oil…
Energy-water nexus
Information on the quantity, quality, and management of water produced during oil and gas production
Revising Russia’s energy strategy
(…) This paper looks in particular at Russian attempts to promote the increase of gas production and export and to improve the framework for upstream investment in the oil industry…
A neoinstitutionalist interpretation of the changes in the Russian oil model
This paper deals with the current change of the institutional and organizational framework of the Russian oil industry. Regarding this evolution, the main characteristic is the increasing involvement of national oil companies in the upstream activities. The point is to explain this reorganization by relying on the New Institutional Economics framework…
Historical Oil Shocks
This NBER working paper surveys the history of the oil industry with a particular focus on the events associated with significant changes in the price of oil
