Robin Mills is CEO of Qamar Energy and a non-resident Fellow of the Centre on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Author of two books on the strategic future of energy, he has broad and deep commercial, economic and technical experience in the energy and upstream oil and gas business. Robin is an expert in energy strategy and risk analysis with strong knowledge about the Middle East, Russia and the North Sea.
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?
As an intense, above-average hurricane season approaches this year, Robin M. Mills analyses the possible scenarios and the potential impact on the oil and gas infrastructure along the US Gulf coast, and on the international energy industry, in his exclusive monthly column
In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Robin Mills weighs in on the doubts and prospects for electric vehicles (EVs) to surpass petrol and diesel cars in the near future, and demonstrates why the destination is clear - even if, like a bad Google Maps direction, the journey takes longer than advertised.
Low-carbon energy is winning the race in some sectors on its own merits – in solar and wind power, electric cars and increasingly batteries and heat pumps. There is plenty of work to be done in areas such as heavy industry, shipping and air travel. But here too, good solutions are starting to emerge. Governments should make inefficient and carbon-intensive consumer goods as unfashionable as smoking.
In the latest episode of Energy Connects Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Julian Walker hosts Robin Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy, to talk about the energy transition and why 2023 will be such an important year with the UAE hosting COP28 later in the year
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