Analyst Matt Gertken examines the present alignment of Russian and Chinese energy interests, and why that alignment is likely to be temporary.

Analyst Peter Zeihan examines the technologies, geographic realities and economics of developing the Arctic's natural resources for the region's players.

Analyst Mark Schroeder examines the upcoming elections in Nigeria and how the outcome could affect the country's oil production.

Analyst Eugene Chausovsky examines how the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector project, which faces many infrastructural and political obstacles, is likely a message to Russia and Turkey.

Georgia, Romania, Hungary and Azerbaijan have agreed to construct a project that could reduce Central Europe's dependence on Russian energy, but the agreement could be meant more as a message to Russia and Turkey.

Tactical analyst Ben West dissects a jihadist group's claim of responsibility for the July 28 attack against a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

Analyst Peter Zeihan examines how storms this hurricane season may affect the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

For the past few months, Venezuelans have been experiencing rolling blackouts related to weakening electricity infrastructure. The national electrical grid relies heavily on hydropower, and the Guri dam, in eastern Venezuela, is the heart of the system.

Ukraine’s president-elect, Viktor Yanukovich, has said that Kiev will seek an energy consortium with Russia and the European Union to upgrade Ukraine’s aging natural gas pipeline network. Ukraine is a key transit state for Russian natural gas bound for markets in Europe.