Mexico's recent Energy Reform sent a shock to upend its seventy-five-year-old petroleum monopoly, hoping to cure the ailing industry with injections of foreign investment. Mexico sought to undo a history of state control overnight, but present challenges show that history cannot be undone so...

Iraq’s ability to reach its energy potential should be of broad regional and international concern. Iraq could be poised for a dramatic transformation, one in which it finally escapes the political and technical constraints that have kept it producing less than 4 percent of the world’s oil,...

Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, the organization widely held responsible for September 11,2001 attacks on World Trade Center, said in a 1998 interview that he believed that Oil Prices, then trading at around $11 a barrel should ideally trade at around $144 a barrel. Oil touched around...

This paper uses regression and multivariate analysis to examine oil stock market and large oil company stock price data in 30 and 60 day windows either side of OPEC production allocation meetings. The study continues on to investigate cointegration and exogeneity over the full period in the...