The motivations behind a number of Rosneft's projects extend beyond a purely commercial basis and are often directly supportive of Russian foreign policy.

By most accounts, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) successfully concluded its November 30 meeting by agreeing to extend the production cuts an additional nine months, to run through the end of 2018, and seeking to cap output from Nigeria and Libya,...

Although historical precedents indicate that Russia has preferred to free ride on OPEC production cuts, there are several recent developments that suggest that they may be more committed to cooperating with the Saudis this time around.

For most of the post–World War II period, the United States stood as the world’s largest energy consumer, as befitted its being the largest economy and largest oil importer, in spite of being a leading oil producer, due its prodigious and profligate oil consumption....

On December 1, 2014, during a visit to the Turkish capital Ankara, President Vladimir Putin of Russia surprised the energy world by announcing the cancellation of the South Stream project, a pipeline system under the Black Sea, proposing to carry 63 billion cubic meters per...

Facts:

• On February 16, the European Commission released its proposed sustainable energy security strategy for the European Energy...

Economic sanctions have become the tool of choice for American foreign policy.

Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives adopted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Early Friday morning, the Senate followed suit. Passage of the measure generates revenue to allow an increase in the debt ceiling (to next March) and fund the federal budget through...

In the twelve months since the collapse of global oil prices and the imposition of Western economic sanctions against Russia, the number of new Russian gas export project announcements has skyrocketed. Only last month, Gazprom signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

This past weekend Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for Victory Day. Together they witnessed the signing of a plethora of bilateral agreements. Predictably yet another one was signed on gas between Gazprom and China National...

Lately President Vladimir Putin of Russia has transformed what others saw as either his tactical nimbleness or dangerous unpredictability into performance art. Putin’s actions may not always achieve a positive result, however. The annexation of Crimea and expanding...

On the sidelines of the summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders in Beijing on November 9 came a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) for natural gas supply from West Siberia. This...