It’s another blog post and another sombre outcome as news breaks that the Russia-Belarus oil talks have taken place to no avail. The countries have spent the last couple of days in discussion over disagreements about the price of export duty which Belarus ought to pay to Russia for oil. Just yesterday...

2010 had barely begun when on Saturday January 2, reports surfaced of an oil leak in a pipeline operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The leak reportedly began on the previous Wednesday, December 30, as a result of a construction accident. Initial reports claimed that it had polluted...