This chapter will specifically cover the institutions surrounding the oil price and resource economics. The objective is to distance the approach taken from the resource determinism which characterizes most of the mainstream literature on the political economy of energy. The theoretical overview...

Institutional Theory and Oil Prices: Ceci est ne pas un Marché -- The Oil Price and Resource-Society Interaction -- Oil, between monopolies and free market -- Is OPEC dead? Oil Exporters, the Paris Agreement and the Transition to a Post-Carbon World -- Petroleum Conspiracies: How Russian...

The text highlights major challenges for Russian hydrocarbon and financial sectors in aftermath of sanctions. The effects are rather long term and can be already observed in spite of over-optimistic discourses of Russian officials

On 24 November 2010, the Energy Charter Conference adopted a "Road Map for the Modernisation of the Energy Charter Process" (Road Map) as a strategic document to respond to the important changes in global energy relations since the 1990’s and ensure the relevance and authority of the Energy...

The subject touches upon recent trends in Russia's gas policies in the context of the ever-growing importance of domestic independent gas producers one one hand and an ongoing transformation of the EU markets on the other

Highlights:• Changing market realities in natural gas engender significant challenges for Gazprom in both Europe and Russia alike. The trend consists in a growing number of suppliers domestically, with a boost of independent gas production, and internationally, with a more liquid gas and LNG...