Simon Pirani: October 2015

Sunday 18 October 2015

Natural gas: the Russia-Ukraine question

Reverse flow deliveries of gas to Ukraine have not ended Russian imports, but they have created price competition, I argued in this presentation on 14 October at the first Ukraine Gas Forum.

Sunday 4 October 2015

The global drivers of fossil fuel consumption. Is the IPCC looking at them the right way?

I gave this presentation at a seminar on "How fossil fuel consumption shapes the lives communities lead" on Thursday 1 October at UCL. Download here. (This is part of my research on the global history of fossil fuel consumption.)

Ukraine: the end of post-Soviet gas pricing

My article in Oxford Energy Forum, no. 101, downloadable here.

Welcome

I am a researcher, writer and lecturer, and author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto Press, 2018). My main area of research is the energy transition, with a focus on technological, social and economic systems. Twitter: @SimonPirani1. I write a blog at peoplenature.org.

My earlier work as a historian and energy researcher was focused on Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. My book The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite (Routledge, 2008) was a study of working-class political history. Another book, Change in Putin’s Russia: Power, Money and People (Pluto Press, 2010) was based on my work as a journalist.

I am Honorary Professor in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Durham. From 2007 to 2021 I was Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, working on the Natural Gas Research Programme.

Simon Pirani