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Shifting Sands under Qatari Gas
View of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a state-owned corporation established in 1974 and responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in Qatar on December 29, 2010 in Umm Said, Qatar. (Nadine...
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Like a Bull in the Iraqi Oil Market
Gazprom security men stand guard in front of a drilling platform at an oilfield near the Iraqi city of Badra, south of Baghdad, on October 18, 2012. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)Global oil production...
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Sustainable Growth or More of the Same?
GCC Oil and Energy Ministers (L to R) United Arab Emirate’s Oil and Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouie, Qatari Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, Saudi Ali Al-Naimi, Bahraini Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa,...
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Small Steps in Libya
Members and vehicles of the Al-Qaaqa brigade from Zintan get ready to vacate the premises of their Tripoli quarter on November 21, 2013, as part of a government decision to remove militias from the...
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Breaking the Libyan Oil Blockade
A Libyan security officer walks by an oil drill on March 23, 2013 at the Al-Ghani oil field, belonging to Libya’s Harouge Oil Operations company, near the city of Waddan in the central Al-Jufrah...
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Kurdistan Goes it Alone
An employee works at the Tawke oil field near the town of Zacho, in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dohuk governorate, in this May 2009 file photo. (Muhannad Fala’ah/Getty Images) Iraq’s Kurds have taken another...
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The Middle and the East
Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz (2nd L) is welcomed by his Japanese counterpart, Naruhito (2nd R), upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on February 18, 2014. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty...
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Gas Up and Govern
A seismic vessel is pictured off the coast of Lebanon on September 24, 2012. Seismic surveys of Mediterranean waters off Lebanon’s southern coast suggest they contain 12 trillion cubic feet of natural...
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Turkey’s Kurdish Lifeline?
A view of construction on the pipeline between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, taken in Dohuk on December 10, 2013.(Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The tug-of-war between Iraq and Erbil, the...
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Sidestepping Sanctions
A picture taken on February 3, 2014, shows low-income Iranians lining up to receive food supplies in southern Tehran. The Iranian government has been using handouts, in part, to mitigate the effects of...
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