World Energy Leadership Summit


Natural gas could reach the status of a globally priced and traded commodity within five years if sufficient shipping capacity is developed.

The use of natural gas in transport has the potential to change the role of energy infrastructure, politics and investing, but without the right mix of government policies and business commitment fuel consumption patterns will lag broader shifts that include a shift in consumption power to emerging economies. Keep reading →

Traditional Korean lamps in the city of Daegu, Korea’s third largest.

In a business world obsessed with quarterly returns, the energy sector continues to think about the long term in years and decades, not weeks and months. Keep reading →

In late April dozens of the world’s top energy leaders gathered by the side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul to continue a tradition of discussion that has been going on since the end of the First World War required coordinated approaches to rebuilding a damaged Europe. Keep reading →

Despite the high volume of attention paid to elections, national policies may matter less than raw economics and common goals applied in nationally customized ways as the energy sector becomes increasingly networked across the world. Keep reading →


The upcoming World Energy Leadership Summit in Istanbul will be a good forum to “test the waters” on how global markets view competition in the energy sector, according to CME Group Chief Economist Blu Putnam.

Turkey is a good crossroads to discuss the future of cheaper, cleaner and more efficient energy development in the developing world even as growth challenges and policy limit the expansion of energy infrastructure in many developed countries, Putnam said in a recent interview with Breaking Energy. Keep reading →

The St Sophia church in Istanbul, Turkey, now a museum.

In a global economy dealing with moribund growth, particularly in Europe, Turkey’s robust economy and its distinctive efforts to deregulate its energy business while encouraging cutting edge investment have attracted attention from governments and industry around the world. Keep reading →