Adversity and reform: Ukraine's gas market prospects

This Oxford Energy Insight looks at the rapid changes in the Ukrainian gas market over the last three years, and how it is likely to develop from here.

The long, troubled Russia-Ukraine gas marriage is over

"Whatever happens next, the long, troubled Russia-Ukraine gas marriage is over, and the lawyers are arguing about who gets what". See my article in the latest Oxford Energy forum here (scroll down to page 15).

Pavel Sheremet, Belarussian journalist

My tribute to my friend Pavel Sheremet, published on the Pensive Quill site.

Fossil fuel consumption outside the rich countries: research questions

A presentation on the history of fossil fuel consumption outside the rich countries, given at the World Ecology Network conference, 15-16 July 2016, Durham University, UK.

Azerbaijan's gas supply squeeze and the consequences for the "southern corridor"

My paper on Azerbaijan, published this week by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, downloadable here.

Looking back at 1917 from the post-Soviet period

This short paper, published on the LeftEast site, looks at how views of the Russian revolution have changed in the British labour and socialist movements. It was presented at a conference on “Twenty Five Years After the USSR” at the German Historical Institute, Moscow, on 10 June. It was also published here on the OpenLeft site in Russian.

Russia's gas transit across Ukraine after 2019

This Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Working Paper, written jointly with my colleague Katja Yafimava, looks at how Russian gas will be transported to Europe after the current transit contract with Naftogaz Ukrainy expires on 31 December 2019. It can be downloaded from the OIES web site here.

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.

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.

"Cut up Khrushchev for sausages!" A history lesson for the New York Times

My article about the workers' uprising in 1962 in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, on the LeftEast web site here, responds to the ludicrous claim by a New York Times editorial staffer that it was a "Cossack" revolt.

Global fossil fuel consumption, 1950 to the present: seven histories in one

I have just attended the World Society: Planetary Natures conference at Binghamton university in the USA. The theme was the "converging crises" of climate, energy and finance. The notes of my presentation, "Global fossil fuel consumption, 1950 to the present: seven histories in one", are downloadable here. There was a wide range of speakers, including journalists and social movement activists as well as university-based researchers. Among the latter were anthropologists, ethnographers and historians, and others too. Binghamton has always been something of a centre for "world system" historians, and some (although not all) of the attendees work in that tradition. It was a very welcome opportunity to meet and exchange views with other scholars. Conference web pages here.