This study seeks to investigate how and why state capitalism developed in China and Russia in the oil and gas sectors and explain why two countries that have contrasting energy-security challenges use state capitalism to solve them. It argues that state control over the oil and gas sectors has...

This paper assesses the existence of a relationship between recent research on the Research, Development, and Innovation (RD&I or R&D) sector of Petrobras with the quantitative data available in the company's reports and the Brazilian regulatory agencies. For this, 44 articles were selected...

Global climate changes urge prompt energy transition for less carbon emissions, from traditional fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable clean energy. However, in reality, the world's energy majority cannot make U-turn immediately to renewables or clean energy due to the immature technology...

Although the relationship between the global oil and stock markets has been given extensive critical assessment in the literature, this study gives a re-examination of this nexus for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries with certain innovative contributions. We employ both the Symmetric ARDL...

The energy market integration in the Middle East is assessed by comparing the acting institutions in the Levant and Persian Gulf sub-regions. Pami Aalto's regional institution's theoretical framework and the case-oriented comparative research method are adopted for this purpose. Changes in the...

This study looks into ICT's asymmetrical impact on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) controlling energy use and financial development (FD) in GCC countries. It uses panel data covering 1995-2019, employs 2nd generation unit root and Westerlund cointegration tests, and applies panel-pooled...

Over the last 20 years, Russia has taken several initiatives in order to become an LNG producer of global relevance. Failing to achieve this status for long while being instead a natural gas producer and exporter, Moscow has undertaken an ambitious reform process of the domestic gas system....

This research investigates the nexus between natural gas consumption (NGC), economic growth (EG), urban population, unemployment, and services value-added in Bangladesh during 1990-2019. This study employs various quantitative methods, including autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), ARDL bounds...

The 2022 Russia-Ukrainian war has scrambled Europe's natural gas landscape and led the European Union (EU) to develop new policies and seek alternative gas sources to curtail Moscow's revenues and influence. This article, through fifteen (15) semi-directed interviews with natural gas industry...

The European Union's target to reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 calls for a sharp decrease in the consumption of natural gas. This study assesses impacts of greenhouse gas neutrality on the gas system, taking France and Germany as two case studies which illustrate a wide range of...