During his recent State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama continued to articulate his desire to increase spending on a whole host of priorities. However, when it comes to one of our nation’s most critical needs, maintaining our nuclear deterrent, the President seems to want to look for savings wherever he can.

• March 9, 2013

Bottom Line: Bulgaria’s scrapping of a Russian pipeline deal to carry Russian and Caspian oil to Greece is a response to the government’s collapse in February over energy prices that demonstrate how energy giant Russia can bring down a government.

• March 9, 2013

India has proposed building a pipeline to carry direct supplies of hydrocarbons from Kazakhstan's oil and gas rich Caspian region. The proposal is part of New Delhi's wider attempt to deepen co-operation with Astana to help secure the energy it needs to meet India's steadily growing demand.

• March 8, 2013

With oil production at a twenty year high and predictions of a manufacturing renaissance for the U.S. economy, one of the world's largest investment banks has detailed how the "shale revolution" will negatively affect emerging markets such as China.

• March 7, 2013

Ukraine, which is trying to reduce its dependence on Russian gas supplies, may receive gas from Europe via Slovakia, the European Commissioner for Energy was quoted as saying.

• March 5, 2013

While the western media remains largely fixated on the existential Iran nuclear threat and the gory slow-motion Syrian civil war, other momentous events are occurring in the world’s most volatile region, with potentially enormous consequences for the west’s addiction to Middle Eastern oil. One of the most brutal Middle East insurgencies, largely overlooked by the Western media, involved Turkey and the Marxist Kurdish separatist Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK).

• March 5, 2013

The US media has warned that the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline might lead to sanctions against Islamabad, although the State Department says sanctions will only become effective if Pakistan finalises the deal.

• March 4, 2013

Russia may agree to make a concession to Ukraine regarding clearance of movements of the Black Sea Fleet units outside their bases, although no final agreement has yet been achieved on this matter, the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine weekly has reported citing sources familiar with the process of negotiations.

• March 2, 2013