Extractive Industries

Basrah, Iraq: June 2011 I learn on Friday that our small World Bank energy team has received permission and security clearance to visit a production site within Iraq’s giant Rumaila Oil field…

It is still too early to estimate with much precision the quantitative impacts of the devastating events in Japan on the global energy sector, as well as the effects on energy and economic…

Patrick Bond’s lengthy comment on my response to his blog post merits a separate blog post. Patrick: Thanks for your response.  It appears as if there are at least four areas where we end up…