GLG News by Energy / Utilities Experts: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Affairs (Canada)

This commentary, first distributed on September 11, analyzes the fall of the Moscow RTS and MICEX main equity indices that began from their all-time highs four months ago. It retains its relevance irrespective of oscillations over the past ten days, which in fact conform to the analysis, pointing to...

Economic, political and bureaucratic obstacles to rational and reliable decision-making within Iran are ignored, even as U.S. pressure is invoked to explain to exit of Western energy companies from Iran. I enumerate five reasons why energy investment in Iran would be ill-advised under present conditions...

Gazprom is slowly losing its bid to keep Turkmenistan exclusively in the Russian orbit. Interconnection between Turkmenistan's and Azerbaijan's rigs in the Caspian Sea will lead to settlement of a bilateral territorial dispute, finally permitting agreement to construct a trans-Caspian gas pipeline circumventing...

North Korean iron ore helps the Chinese steel industry at a time when China is producing record amounts of steel to build office towers, Olympic stadiums and subways.