@bstefan
Reader in Comparative Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. Interested in oil, American and African politics; writing a book on The Resilience of Big Oil. Bookworm, amateur sports photographer. MCB rugby fan. ✠ https://sites.google.com/view/bstefan
They "find no effects of shareholder pressure on deep reforms to climate strategies". #oilandgas #climate Limited impacts of shareholder pressure on climate strategy of fossil firms | Business and Politics | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47tAv2x
When commenting on domestic US economic effects of #Iran war and potential impact on #midterms2026 please recall that electorates' views on economy in spring are weakly correlated with voting choice, whereas those views in autumn are strongly correlated with voter choice. #elections
“This is not Winston #Churchill that we’re dealing with.” — #Trump on #Starmer #specialrelationship
US #LNG will play an even more important role in global #energy markets in the months and years ahead. #shale #fracking
Manchester, 28th February 2026. #Iran #Israel #USA
Still alive.
"[W]e do live in systems that reward conformity, discourage awkward questions and quietly reshape categories so that certain answers no longer appear..." Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, President of City St George's, University of London, on ideological conformity in academia.
Great piece by Charles Duhigg on how #Democrats are good at mobilizing but get caught up in ideological litmus tests, whereas #Republicans organize and convert organization into votes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Today is the annual #Holocaust Memorial Day. Never Again.
Starting to teach my spring course on Global Political Economy of #Energy tomorrow and with unfailing sense of timing the current issue of @newyorker.com arrived in the post. #oil #Trump
The US has 8 US$1 trillion+ companies (one is US$3 trilllion+). Europe have none. While the US companies are all high-tech, Europe's most valuable company is French luxury brand LVMH (US$350 billion). Two entirely divergent economies. #TradeWar
Sign of the times. #arms #defence #investing
I always read some books from the FT's Business Book of the Year list. The 2025 winner, Stephen Witt's biography of Jensen Huang and #Nvidia is one of the best books in years. (The 2012 winner, Steve Coll's book on #Exxon drew me into energy research full-time.) #AI www.penguin.co.uk/books/462527...
”HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” #Trump #Iran
I guess the #Aggies will make do with what Whitehead referred to as the "footnotes"... #Plato #philosophy
Thornberry warns of "international anarchy". I guess she never studied International Relations and Waltz. #Venezuela
My favourite spot on the last day of the year. Deus Nobiscum ✠
Santa delivered! Very excited about tickets to take my boys to the 2026 #UnionJackClassic at Wembley: #ASU v #KU. My real college football allegiance may be with the purple and gold, but I attended one and received a PhD from the other of these two 😀
#Energy are the ties that bind together. " #Israel Approves $37 Billion Deal to Deliver Gas to #Egypt" #Leviathan #Chevron #oilandgas www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
Continental Resources' Harold Hamm is just the kind of oilman who makes the study of #oilandgas so fascinating. #Oklahoma www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
Not quite the "Drill, baby, drill" boom for US #oil as you might have expected during a second #Trump administration. #oilandgas www.rystadenergy.com/insights/rev...
An astute review by Gideon Lewis-Kraus of Sven Beckert’s #Capitalism ‘What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?’ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
After years of “activists” screaming their anti-Israeli and thinly veiled anti-Jewish hate in universities, on the streets, outside synagogues and Jewish shops, officials are shocked by the mass shooting on #BondiBeach during #Hanukkah celebrations. Precisely what “globalising the intifada” entails
The seeds of truths in #Trump ‘s #NationalSecurityStrategy2025 about our serious structural problems in #Europe should be a greater concern to us than the hyperbole with which it is delivered and irrespective of the intent behind the message. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
New paper with Joachim Peter Tilsted & Oliver Bugge Hunt in Energy Research & Social Science ‘Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability & change in transitions’
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Grok produced an interesting list of the Top 10 most important cities in #oilandgas: Houston, London, Singapore, Dubai, Geneva, Riyadh, Beijing, Moscow, Calgary, Stavanger. Geneva is perhaps surpsiring as it's easy to forget its major role in oil trading (Vitol, Trafigura, etc.).
I wish I knew such such certainty how to predict market peaks and troughs. I wouldn’t need my day job. “Past performance is not an indicator of future returns.” That said, heady times for sure.
“We estimate the ‘supply’ gap by 2035 – the volume of new liquids the upstream industry needs to bring onstream – is just over 20 million b/d... Achieving that will require sustained development investment of at least US$520 billion a year.” #oilandgas www.woodmac.com/blogs/the-ed...
The political desire to willingly forego #oilandgas investments and tax receipts while that choice does nothing to alter global demand or supply is a strange one... " #NorthSea oil and gas groups given go-ahead for new drilling" www.ft.com/content/ce02...