For US Gulf Coast crude oil market, choppy waters before the flood
With this week's launch of a long-awaited new oil pipeline from the US Midwest to the Gulf Coast, traders are on high alert for a flood of crude they expect…
Oil drillers in Oklahoma hope to ‘SCOOP’ competitors
A handful of energy firms are rushing their rigs to several counties in southern Oklahoma, convinced they've found the next shale play to expand America's oil boom. While the number…
A worrisome build-up
Last week, the Vatican released an "apostolic exhortation" authored by His holiness Pope Francis, which faults unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny", and calls on political leaders everywhere to fight…
9/11: War of what?
On September 9, 2001, twelve years ago, a gruesome and heinous crime against humanity was committed in New York - wanton attack on twin towers of World Trade Center symbolising…
Economics and politics of energy imports
Pakistan is in the middle of a major socio-economic crisis because of the non-availability of electricity on a sustained and affordable basis. The crisis is basically caused by major gaps…
Conclusions and policy recommendations: Privatisation paradigm
Privatisation should not be pursued as an ideology, as in modern economic theory and policy there is no room for dogmatism. After the Great Recession of 2008, the neo-liberal school…
‘Selling’ idea of conservation to general public
'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry,' so goes an old saying. These days, the saying can be rephrased to read as, 'we never know…
Pipeline politics
The only existing gas pipeline in Pakistan is the Sui gas distribution network that has supplied Pakistani homes, factories and power plants for the past four decades. Pakistan is a…
