Daniel Graeber is a writer and political analyst based in Michigan. His work on matters related to the geopolitical aspects of the global energy sector, as well as Iraq and broader Middle East developments, has been featured extensively with United Press International (UPI) as well as foreign media outlets. His academic contributions include an assessment of the U.S. doctrine of containment. He also teaches media literacy courses at Grand Valley State University.
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Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said last week it was time to add more diversity to an energy sector that relies almost exclusively on…
Motor group AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline for Wednesday was $3.50, down more than 30 cents from the…
The Chinese government announced it would invest more than $13 billion on oil and gas exploration this year. The World Bank said last weekend the…
Few members of OPEC posted gains in the series of market reports published last week. The International Energy Agency said OPEC crude oil production for…
There may be as much as 48 billion barrels of oil and 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Caspian region. There's probably…
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said energy security isn't necessarily a call to arms for the alliance in a globalized world. Crude oil markets reacted…
Back in January, the Federal Regulatory Commission decided a good place for a new pilot project for tidal energy was, in all places, the East…
Sabotage and theft from oil producing regions in Nigeria has left a black mark on the nation's economy. Oil production is down more than 7…
Critics of hydraulic fracturing say economic and energy security shouldn't come at the expense of the environment. The controversial practice, dubbed fracking, has become the…
The International Energy Agency said last week it was staying on the sidelines despite the recent spike in crude oil prices. Brent prices are up…
U.S. regulators said last year was the safest on record for the rail industry. In terms of volume, the Association of American Railroads said the…
The Iranian government announced this week it secured a long-term natural gas agreement with its maritime neighbors in Oman. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed to…
Energy-rich Norway said it was moving ahead with plans to install more than 1,000 megawatts of wind farms onshore. Norway, Europe's largest oil producer and…
U.S.-based energy explorer Apache Corp. is one of the last holdouts in Egypt, which accounts for about 20 percent of its global oil and natural…
The population in the eastern Mediterranean region is expected to increase by as much as 35 percent in the next 20 years. Natural gas deposits…
More than 5 million people live in the northern semiautonomous Kurdish provinces isolated from much of the violence plaguing Iraq. The area was shielded from…
British energy company Cuadrilla Resources issued an apology last week to the residents of Balcombe, a village in West Sussex near the British coast. Campaigners…
A natural gas company operating in Yemen said there was nothing to media reports stating al-Qaida militants killed four soldiers in a weekend attack. The…
China is expected to be the leading contributor to an expected increase in the consumption of oil. A former economist at the World Bank said…
Libyan oil production is at its lowest level since the onset of civil war in 2011. In Iraq, oil production is down below the 3…