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World Energy Outlook 2009

A false picture of world's oil reserves?

There are charges that the International Energy Agency's figures are false, and the world is much closer to running short of oil than the IEA lets on. European correspondent Stephen Beard talks with Bill Radke about those claims. (11/10/2009)

People wave the flags of Pakistan and India

Gas line to India may be a pipe dream

There's not enough power to go around in South Asia, so India is hoping to get natural gas shipped in from Iran. But there's one big obstacle. Raymond Thibodeaux reports. (11/03/2009)

A BP petrol statio

Oil giant BP faces more safety issues

British Petroleum is expected to be hit today with the biggest fine in the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Stephen Beard reports. (10/30/2009)

Sign from a Shell gas station

Oil giant Shell seeks to trim costs

Shell is reporting a 62% drop in third-quarter profits, and the future might not look much better for the oil giant. Stephen Beard reports. (10/29/2009)

Juli Niemann

A look at home and oil prices

Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith, Moore and Company, talks with Bill Radke about the rise in U.S. home prices, and why the price of oil isn't even cheaper with demand down. (10/27/2009)

Oil tanker at refinery in Belle Chasse, La.

Why is the price of oil rising?

Oil crossed $80 a barrel overnight, the first time that has happened in a year. Stephen Beard reports on the outlook for oil. (10/20/2009)

An oil pumping unit in an Illinois farm field

An oil supply crunch may be looming

Simon Taylor, founding director at Global Witness, talks with Stacey Vanek-Smith about his organization's report, which says oil supplies are drying up fast. (10/20/2009)

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Energy crisis is postponed?

Writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard talks with Bill Radke about an article he wrote on the new advances in the extraction of natural gas. (10/12/2009)

A worker inspects an oil drilling platform

China, U.S. battle over African oil field

A Chinese state oil company may go toe-to-toe against Exxon Mobil and make an oil bid in West Africa. Scott Tong reports. (10/12/2009)

Employee at the Tawke oil field in Iraq

An oil-trading world without the dollar?

A U.K. newspaper report says Persian Gulf countries want to stop selling oil for dollars. What's the chance of that happening? Jeremy Hobson reports. (10/06/2009)

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