About this book

ILS Energy, a global research, consulting and publishing company, is carrying out research activities, studying and analyzing worldwide energy questions, including but not limited to the oil, gas, nuclear power and renewable energy industries. This book is a compilation of major news and events from the Energy World of the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. ILS’ teams have been writing the present book, in cooperation with their external academic and research partners.

Therefore, this book has become an important summary of facts and findings, addressing to energy professionals, economists, scholars and the political world. Several energy sectors, such as oil and gas, nuclear power and renewable energies are continuously analyzed for many years in the Global Energy series, inclusive new energy markets as well as new energy business opportunities; considering new discoveries, new diplomatic alliances and many other geopolitical factors, the energy world is always evolving.

The Global Financial Crisis, the Migration Crisis, as well as the international Political Crisis englobing the major energy powers (USA, Russia) are unfolding. This book’s authors understand and analyze the new focus of the Energy World, a shifting focus which is the result of a conflictual transition. The global power shift from the former superpower USA to “Eurasia” (Russia, China and other Asian powers) is a reality also in the Energy World. Energy consumption is growing steadily and political and economic strategies, production and distribution systems as well as cooperation mechanisms are evolving, all under a shifting universal power structure.

ILS’ teams and their partners, for this book, have applied top-down analytics, from a geopolitical perspective, to specific governmental actors, and to the private corporates’ businesses, always considering related fields, such as technology, climate change, financial markets, world diplomacy, geography e.a.