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Robin Mills

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Robin M. Mills is chief executive of Qamar Energy, and author of The Myth of the Oil Crisis
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The Hajar Mountains in Ras al Khaimah. Silvia Razgova / The National
Business InsightsWhy it's time to dig through the rocks hiding hydrogen

The UAE, with its long petroleum experience, is well-suited to explore and develop another subsurface energy source

EnergyNovember 17, 2025
Adipec 2025 welcomed 220,000 visitors to Abu Dhabi last week. Photo: Adipec
Business InsightsPower equals knowledge: Energy leaders write a new equation at Adipec

Abu Dhabi’s global energy showcase this year saw the industry wanting to explore the AI boom - its reality, its uses and its energy appetite

EnergyNovember 10, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Flames blaze from a chimney at Western Europe's largest liquefied natural gas plant Hammerfest LNG in Hammerfest, Norway, March 14, 2024. REUTERS / Lisi Niesner / File Photo
Business Insights Europe's gas future lies east and south, not across the Atlantic

Overdependence on Washington looks unwise with today’s turbulent trade despite the swelling wave of American LNG

EnergyNovember 03, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reuters
Business InsightsWhy the latest Russia oil sanctions could hurt its war economy

Earlier bans diverted oil from Europe to India and China, allowing them to extract discounts, but without damaging Moscow’s overall sales

EnergyOctober 27, 2025
Oil and gas tanks at a port in Zhuhai, China. Reuters
Business InsightsChina is soaking up oil imports, and the US and Russia are reasons why

Beijing is concerned about threats from tighter US trade restrictions and sanctions on Moscow and Tehran

EnergyOctober 20, 2025
Solar panels on the roof of a company in Nairobi, Kenya. Access to electricity remains a major challenge in Africa. AP
Africa could have some of the cheapest electricity in the world

Things are changing as the continent boosts imports of solar panels

EnergyOctober 13, 2025
Members of the Russian emergencies ministry work to extinguish fire at an oil storage tank after an alleged drone attack in the town of Azov in the southern region of Rostov, Russia, on June 18, 2024. Reuters
Business InsightsUkraine's drones are striking weak spots in Russia's war economy

Tech warfare is taking the fight deep into Russia’s oil heartland and testing Moscow's limits

EnergyOctober 06, 2025
Workers in Tawke oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan. Reuters
Business InsightsIraq-Kurdish oil deal will give country big boost but is only the first step

The Iraqi Kurdistan region is meant to deliver at least 230,000 bpd to Somo for export

EnergySeptember 29, 2025
A seasonal slowdown in demand because of refinery maintenance in Asia is expected to lead to further price declines. AP
Business Insights Why oil and gas producers cannot slow down on the great energy treadmill

Reserves are depleting faster than ever and forcing producers into relentless reinvestment with geopolitical consequences

BusinessSeptember 22, 2025
The next moves by Opec+ will show what approach it has in mind. Reuters
Business InsightsOpec+ could carry out a reset, a rebound or a revolution

This month, the oil producers group agreed to start easing the next 1.65 million bpd tranche of voluntary cuts

EnergySeptember 15, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak during a meeting at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China. Reuters
A meeting of Putin, Xi and Modi shows how global power is shifting eastward

China and Russia agreed to progress the Power of Siberia II pipeline last week that could decisively reorient Russia’s gas exports from west to east

EnergySeptember 08, 2025
The Libyan state National Oil Corporation in Tripoli. Reuters
Business InsightsLibya opens its oil fields and the world is taking notice

Fifteen years of disruption give way to the country’s boldest bid for energy investment since the fall of Gaddafi

EnergySeptember 01, 2025
Aviation contributes about 2.5 per cent of global emissions. Getty Images
Business InsightsWhy aviation's lofty net-zero ambitions are struggling to take flight

Whether SAF, synthetics or hydrogen, airlines and fuel suppliers are passing the buck to each other

EnergyAugust 25, 2025
Saudi Arabia has 10.2 gigawatts of operational renewable energy, mostly solar photovoltaic. Reuters
Business InsightsIs Saudi Arabia closer to fully depending on renewables for power?

Kingdom's power shift likely to transform its domestic energy system

BusinessAugust 18, 2025
A worker turns a valve at UdmurtNeft's Gremikhinskoye oil field east of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains. Reuters
Business InsightsWhy US tariff sledgehammer approach with India might have opposite effect

Trump’s latest executive order adds a 25% tariff on India’s goods, because of its purchase of Russian oil, on top of the similar levy

EnergyAugust 11, 2025
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