Brent Crude Oil: Genesis and Development of the World's Most Important Oil Benchmark (Palgrave, 2023). …Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: International oil markets and the need for accelerated decarbonisation -- Chapter … 3: How much oil shall we need anyway? -- Chapter 4: Will the need for energy security derail the energy transition …

This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the … literature is that fundamental factors are the main explanation for the 2007/2008 oil price hike, but that in 1990 …/1991, speculative demand shocks also played a role. Third, it is shown that temporary oil price hikes influence economic decisions that …

’s quest for petroleum has been helping Brazil become an oil power. Written by a career diplomat whose insights into Chinese …Chapter 1. The evolution of the chinese oil sector: from self-sufficiency to increasing external dependence -- chapter … 2. The expansion of the brazilian oil sector: from external dependence to oil self-sufficiency -- chapter 3. Breaking …