Robin Mills graduated from Cambridge University and has worked for more than a decade in petroleum geology and economics for Shell and the Dubai government. He is the author of The Myth of the Oil Crisis (2008), and writes and comments regularly on energy issues in the media.
US President Donald Trump’s Gulf state visits proved, as expected, to be more about business deals than politics. AI, crypto, microchips, finance, aerospace, healthcare, real estate, were all on the agenda. But it’s energy that was one of the most attractive destinations for investment – both into the Gulf, and the US.
The oil market really doesn’t like tariffs. As US President Donald Trump unveiled his levies last week, Brent crude plunged almost $2 per barrel over the course of an hour. Robin MIlls analyses the challenges and opportunities arising out of new trade policies, tariffs and shifts in the global market on the energy sector.
In his exclusive column for Energy Connects, Robin M. Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy, analyses how ADNOC, in partnership with OMV, has consolidated its petrochemicals business by merging Borealis and Borouge and acquiring Nova Chemicals for $9.4 billion, creating a $60 billion global polyolefins giant amid shifting Gulf and European industry dynamics.
In the latest episode of the Energy Connects podcast, Chiranjib Sengupta sat down with Robin Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy and columnist for Energy Connects, to discuss the new US energy agenda and how it could reshape and impact the global energy community.
In Dezhou, China, is an odd memorial to an American President. On display is a solar panel, one of three surviving from those famously installed on the White House roof by President Jimmy Carter. President Carter’s death on 29 December, aged 100, is a reminder of the energy path the US could have travelled, and that China did.
The oil and gas output in Syria could revive to an extent, with better security and waivers to international sanctions. In the longer term, more resources could be found in deeper drilling in the north-east, and in offshore exploration, continuing successful geological trends from Cyprus and Israel, writes Robin Mills.
A simple number that apparently explains everything is always welcome to economists, politicians and commentators. The break-even oil price has taken on that status, illuminating countries’ budgets, OPEC policy and economic diversification efforts. But real life is more complicated, writes Robin Mills.
In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Robin Mills emphasises that Africa's vast renewable energy potential remains largely untapped due to high capital costs, political risks, and unstable policies, despite its critical need for electricity access and development.
In his latest monthly column for Energy Connects, Robin Mills dives deep into President Biden's potential legacy as a transformative energy President, which hinges on the long-term impact of his clean energy initiatives.
The sites of the latest three UN climate talks – COP27, COP28 and COP29 – outline a triangle about 2,000 kilometres long on each side, that contains almost half the world’s oil and gas reserves. Sharm El Sheikh in 2022, Dubai in 2023, and Baku in Azerbaijan, coming up this November, have nevertheless delivered or aim to deliver serious and real progress on climate, not the fossil fuel stitch-up many campaigners feared. As climate talks on the Caspian concludes this trio, what can we look forward to?
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