While the weekend assaults should have only a limited effect on global markets, their aftermath highlights the vulnerabilities of the kingdom's oil giant, tarnishing its planned IPO and perhaps threatening the OPEC+ alliance.
As indications emerge of an Iranian hand behind the assault, the White House will have to balance its response against the chances of igniting a regional conflagration.
If the two countries cannot reach an agreement before the current agreement expires Dec. 31, Russian gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine could well experience interruptions.
Russia has been popping up around Africa in recent years. In its most recent foray, it's sent military forces to Mozambique -- a land of energy promise and militant peril.
The world's northernmost frontier has taken on a renewed significance for the countries that have the most to lose, and gain, from the Arctic's melting ice and shifting political order.
By Rodger Baker
An ongoing and still relatively unknown jihadist group has taken siege of northern Mozambique in recent years, threatening the country's new and potentially lucrative oil and gas sector.
President Joko Widodo has a vision to overhaul his sprawling country's energy sector, but doing so is easier said than done.
Frustrated by the lack of progress toward a coup or a negotiation yielding elections, the U.S. administration ramps up economic pressure in hopes of breaking the stalemate in Caracas.
The Arctic's shifting climate has the potential to unlock a host of untapped energy and mineral reserves for Moscow -- and with it, new revenue streams and security risks borne of China's encroaching presence in the region.
By Rodger Baker
If signed and adhered to, the deal may free the Mozambican government up to pursue stability and prosperity by stamping out an Islamist insurgency in its energy-rich north.
