EDITORIAL TEAM: What are some of the key challenges currently facing global energy markets, particularly from a Middle Eastern perspective?
Rüya Bayegan: Geopolitical tensions, pandemics, and environmental disasters have exposed weaknesses in how we extract and trade conventional energy resources like oil and gas. While oil and gas are shunned resources in certain circles, oil and gas are still essential to powering the global economy and helping launch billions of people into higher standards of living. They are therefore highly valuable geopolitical bargaining tools and are often used to leverage a country’s negotiating position….
