Greece
Editorial: Greece's Bounced Cheque At The Bank Of Clemency
July 07 by Tim Haïdar"Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next."- Sir Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale, 1st Baronet (1903–1989) On Sunday, the results of the so-called "Greferendum...
Editorial: Achaemenids and the battleground
June 30 by Tim HaïdarIn Athens, as banks slammed their doors to the public and the default of the world’s 44th largest economy looms large, interested parties within the Eurozone are on tenterhooks.
Editorial: Grim Contango At The Pariahs' Club Ball
June 23 by Tim HaïdarIn the Cradle of Democracy, the Hellenic Republic has been granted another reprieve by its international creditors. On June 30th, the "Master Financial Assistance Facility Agreement" – Greece&...
Editorial: Pyrrhic Victory Of The Oil Price Pincer
June 16 by Tim HaïdarAs talks between the Hellenic Republic and its creditors in the Eurozone collapsed on Sunday after less than an hour of deliberation, the global markets took a collective nosedive. By June 30th, G...
Editorial: Titanic Events: Syriza, Saudi & Plunging Petrobras
January 26 by Tim HaïdarThe death of Saudi ruler King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and uncertainty over the future of the Eurozone have sent the oil markets into a further loses at the beginning of this week.As the 90-ye...
Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #5 - Militarisation of the Med
January 13 by Tim HaïdarThis year we will likely see a stand off in the Mediterranean centred on disputed natural gas reserves in the Aegean and Levant. Fractious relations between cash-strapped Greece and Turkey and L...
Editorial: Grecian bounty
May 28 by Tim Haïdar"By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember" Homer, The Odyssey
On This Day in Oil & Gas: May 17th - Antikythera Mechanism
May 17 by On This Day in Oil & GasMay 17th, 1902, Athens, Greece – Valerios Stais is sorting through hundreds of objects at the National Museum of Archaeology. The finds were recovered from a shipwreck discovered two years ago...