When will oil revenues run dry, and what will replace them when they do? Those are the existential questions facing economic policymakers of the oil exporting countries of the Arabian Gulf.

This time last year, if you believed the Western media, the outlook for Dubai was dire.

One hundred years ago this week, a peace agreement was signed in London between British and Irish politicians that aimed to put an end to centuries of intermittent, but intense, conflict between the two countries.

Is the cure to omicron, the new COVID-19 variant currently spooking the world, going to be worse than the disease?

American energy policy under the Biden administration is a mess and Tuesday’s decision to draw down 50 million barrels of oil from US strategic reserves is just the latest symptom.

On any unbiased assessment, the first week of COP26 was a pretty good start to the gathering charged with saving the world.

While the arch-environmentalists call for the abolition of all fossil fuels at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in Glasgow, over in Vienna the sharp end of the oil industry is getting down to business.

As world leaders gather in Glasgow for a crucial summit on climate change, Saudi Arabia’s position on the big issues of global warming has become refined and distilled down into a few key messages.