Even if oil prices have recovered from their plunge in 2014, this article argues that the oil industry is unlikely to return to the status quo ex ante. Two profound shifts in technology and markets are dramatically changing the longer-term outlook for the oil industry. In the short term,...

This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the ‘Geographies of Energy Transition: security, climate, governance' hosted...

The next decade will be crucial for Asian gas markets and determine whether natural gas will become a major fuel in the key energy markets of China, India, Japan and Korea, or will remain a "promising" but peripheral energy source. Natural Gas in Asia is a new edition of a 2002 study on the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Series Preface -- Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: transformation and development -- 2 Economic restructuring and employment change -- 3 Foreign...