Author name: Lynne Kiesling

OPEC and Venezuela

An interesting story on the political dynamics of OPEC from today’s (sorry, no specific link, I am reading the print version). At the upcoming meeting in Vienna, OPEC is expected to choose Alvaro Silva, Venezuela’s current energy minister, as secretary general. The current secretary general, Ali Rodriguez, is Venezuelan, and Silva will serve out the …

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How Cool Is This?

Following up on an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required), I’ve been reading up on Irbis Enterprises. Irbis, which means “snow leopard” in Mongolian, is an organization attempting to align the incentives of nomadic herders in Mongolia with not killing snow leopards to sell their coats. As the WSJ article says, Irbis … …

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Oil Market Analyses

Two interesting stories today illustrate some very important points about how world oil markets are evolving. This Bloomberg News story describes how Russia and Norway are changing the dynamics of OPEC’s ability to restrict output to raise prices: Russia and Norway plan to end six months of output cuts and cooperation with the Organization of …

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Gao on Ferc Oversight

UPDATE: As you can see from the time stamp on this post, I was working way too late last night to remember that GAO is General Accounting Office, not Government Accounting Office. Apologies for the slip, which has been corrected below. Well … back from celebrating my birthday and my sister-in-law’s graduation with my in-law …

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