Scraping the Barrel… 31 July 2012
In today’s roundup we look at whether ‘independent academic reports’ backing fracking in the US are actually produced by Big Oil in disguise; the debate around a groundbreaking report which puts Peak...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 1 August 2012
As today’s barrel scrapings reveal: there’s more to the Indian power outages than the government would have you believe, oil companies carve out a new country in Iraq, and natural gas gluts the energy...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 3 August 2012
Today’s barrel scrapings include: how it’s okay to be a successful private investor in China as long as you’re not too successful, that some Canadians are looking enviously towards Norway for lessons...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 6 August 2012
Today’s barrel scrapings include: Nigeria continues its struggle with illegal refineries costing them over $1 billion a month, letters published by the KRG gives us a sneak peek into how they are...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 7 August 2012
As today’s barrel scrapings reveal: Joseph Stiglitz ponders how to make a blessing out of a resource curse, a Twitter vigilante gets a nervous oil market to jump, and the two Sudans make (tentative)...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 8 August 2012
Today’s barrel scrapes include: the Colombian government’s attempts to clean up the mining industry despite opposition from, well, everybody; how Kurdish statehood should not be taken as a given...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… 9 August 2012
Today’s barrel scrapes include: a duplicitous tale of one man against the establishment in post-oligarch Russia; oil majors deepen the Arab/Kurd fault lines in Iraq; and Robin Mills shines a light on...
View ArticleScraping the Barrel… is on holiday!
To our daily news review followers… Scraping the Barrel is on a short summer hiatus. We’ll be tweeting interesting stories from @Open_Oil as usual, and will have some new content for you upon our...
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