In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as w….

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their good….

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would ….

In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why ener….

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s..

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety..

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of thei….

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil..

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line..

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China woul….

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies..

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now..

The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there….

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi A….

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they cou….

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety..

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, toda….

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil..

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply oc….

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets….

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources..