Julia Gillard is in Vladivostok for the APEC meeting. It’s interesting that Australia exports twice as much to China (around US$74 billion in 2011) than Russia does (around US$34 billion in 2011). Australia also exports more to Japan and South Korea. This is notwithstanding Russia’s closer proximity to all of these countries. I think this […]

What is the appropriate noun and verb for a fracture stimulation? Frac or frack? Frack looks ugly (I’m sure American) but Google lists millions of entries for frack but only thousands for frac so I guess we had better fall into line too.

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Daniel Yergin is well-known as a global energy guru, founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and author of The Prize, the Pulitzer Prize winning history of the oil industry. He has now produced an even more ambitious book, The Quest. Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. This latest work covers not […]

Looking forward to the World Gas Conference 4-8 June in Kuala Lumpur where I’ll be chairing the session: Asia Gas Market No. 1? http://www.wgc2012.com/conference/conference-programme/technical-programme-day-by-day.html