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Stefan Andreasson

@bstefan.bsky.social
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Reader in Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Political economy of energy and natural resources. Writing a book on The Resilience of Big Oil. Bookworm, amateur sports photographer. Anglophile. sites.google.com/view/bstefan

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 2h
Let it flow! #Hormuz Middle Eastern oil exports rise to highest level since Iran war began www.ft.com/content/26c5...
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Middle Eastern oil exports rise to highest level since Iran war began
Shuttle services through Strait of Hormuz have brought shipments to more than 80% of prewar daily average
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when (especially US) universities become obsessed with socially engineering ideologically acceptable student bodies. abcnews.com/US/students-...
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Students outraged after Stanford University uses AI to alter race, appearances in promotional photo
Stanford University is facing criticism after using artificial intelligence to alter a photo of three students in an advertisement.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My colleagues Fawwaz Alabdulhadi, @jacktaggart.bsky.social I have a new article published (open access) in @ripejournal.bsky.social, "The petrochemical pivot: geostrategic globalization and the future of oil and gas". I hope you will find it informative. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The petrochemical pivot: geostrategic globalization and the future of oil and gas
While demand for oil as an energy source is projected to decline, petrochemical demand is expected to grow significantly. Toward securing future profitability, oil and gas (O&G) firms are pivoting ...
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What next, an American NOC? "President Trump’s #Venezuela deal caps months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven #oil reserves" www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches
The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race." -- US Chief Justice John Roberts, 2007. I'm wondering whether this is now considered a "far right" viewpoint.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"For as long as I can remember, I’ve wished innovation could happen faster. With #AI, my feelings are more complicated." -- Bill Gates www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai...
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Will Vaca Muerta become the new Permian? "Harold Hamm launches multibillion-dollar plan to drill Argentine shale" www.ft.com/content/2e59...
ft.com
Harold Hamm launches multibillion-dollar plan to drill Argentine shale
Trump ally partners with trader Mercuria in latest move targeting South American nation’s oil
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's back to a core focus on #oil and gas for #Shell, but it is the #chemicals assets as well as the #renewables assets that are underperforming. "Shell draws Exxon interest in $8bn US chemical assets sale" www.ft.com/content/d6f1...
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Shell draws Exxon interest in $8bn US chemical assets sale
US supermajor and LyondellBasell among suitors as UK group looks to shed underperforming plants and refocus on oil and gas
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I often come across international outfits coaching students for places at the world's most competitive universities and find that they use what seems to me very dubious metrics and comparisons. 1/
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Arday debacle is as good an illustration of the "soft bigotry of low expectations" as we'll ever get.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Summertime
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Elmo in Fire
ALT: Elmo in Fire
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The 2025 US - EU $750 billion #energy deal would be a tall order to fulfill, both for American producers and European purchasers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So the #WorldCup has come and gone, and Ranch dressing is still awful.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#Nigeria joins the @IEA as an Association country. North / South divide in global #energy is increasingly blurring. www.iea.org/news/nigeria...
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Nigeria joins the IEA in a major step for global energy governance - News - IEA
Nigeria joins the IEA in a major step for global energy governance - News from the International Energy Agency
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The dream life: completely surrounded by, and immersed in, books. #literature www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
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Too Many Books?
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On critical theory and the Frankfurt School as bourgeois “high-end primal-scream therapy”. Jürgen #Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age
The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Dangote can do more for #development in #Africa than generations of NGOs and aid. #Nigeria #refining "How a $20bn bet paid off for Africa’s richest man" www.ft.com/content/afed...
ft.com
How a $20bn bet paid off for Africa’s richest man
Critics dub Aliko Dangote a crony capitalist. He says he is pioneering Asian-style economic development
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
250 years of US #energy consumption. From the EIA. Coal is no longer King.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wishing all our family and friends in the USA a happy 4th of July!
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Summer by the sea☀️ Our beautiful North Down coast at Donaghadee.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Essential reading by JP Morgan's Michael Cembalest on the #energytransition am.jpmorgan.com/gb/en/asset-...
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Fighting Words: The Energy Transition in 2026
This year we tackle the fiercest energy debates— from data centers and power prices to the “primary energy” fallacy and more.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Back to reading Ivan Vladislavić again. It really makes me miss #Johannesburg. #literature
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I've seen the US - #Iran "deal" referred to in #Israel as "peace for our time"... Appropriate enough?
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#SpaceX joins world's 10 largest companies by market cap. 8 of 10 are US companies. #investing $SPCX
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
$SPCX #SpaceX
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
With Ben, Jerry, Larry, Adam and Spike, the #Knicks are surely sporting the strongest bench in NBA history! 🏀
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Perhaps, assuming mutually reinforcing #defence, clean #energy and #AI spending. But while there's certainly profitability in defence, #renewables have poor track record and AI is unproven. #investing "Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle?" www.ft.com/content/d91c...
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Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle?
AI, clean energy and defence spending are reinforcing each other, amplifying potential spend
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Excellent overview by Jason Bordoff. #oilandgas #energy #Hormuz "The Iran War is sorting the global oil economy into winners and losers. But not even the biggest-producing countries are immune. Here, a closer look at the long-term impact across the planet." www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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The Winners and Losers of Oil’s New World Order
Energy expert Jason Bordoff explains the uneven consequences of the war in Iran and the longer term outlook for nations from the U.S. to Russia.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Compared to European and Japanese consumers, "U.S. natural gas consumers have saved $3.1-$4.3 trillion between 2007 and 2025" thanks to the US "#shale revolution"! #energy #fracking Lucas Davis at Berkeley's Haas School: haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Let's go #Knicks (David Remnick on 1970) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Knicks: The Only Game in Town
The Knicks have made the N.B.A. Finals again and, as another home team instructs the city, “Ya gotta believe.”
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A truly remarkable novel, and possibly one of the most perfectly crafted books I’ve read; not a world misplaced. (And, coincidentally, I noted that the author’s life span is contemporaneous with that of my maternal Grandfather, 1908 - 2000). #literature #Illinois
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"[B]ecause of the intellectual wasteland of the Corbyn years, [the #Labour Party] had no properly thought-through analysis of how the world was changing and what that meant for policy" -- Tony Blair institute.global/insights/pol...
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The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country
In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Very impressed with how @praddenkeefe.bsky.social narrates a non-fiction story. Will have to listen to Empire of Pain next. #London
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hatred of Israel and the Degradation of the West www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...
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Opinion | Hatred of Israel and the Degradation of the West
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution…” George Orwell, 1941
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Once you know what you’re looking for, it’s like finding balls on a dog. This is the hottest play in the world right now because it’s going to catch and surpass Guyana on reserves”.. Oil majors return to #Alaska as state becomes ‘world’s hottest play’ #oilandgas www.ft.com/content/269c...
ft.com
Oil majors return to Alaska as state becomes ‘world’s hottest play’
Exxon and Shell among those resuming Arctic exploration in Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ era
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The US market remains a remarkable juggernaut: "US stocks account for 65 per cent of total global stock market capitalisation — up from 40 per cent in 2010." #investing Why markets are surging in spite of war www.ft.com/content/286f...
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Why markets are surging in spite of war
Even amid a supply shock, tech stocks continue to drive indices higher. Is the optimism justified?
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
So maybe #Venezuela is investable after all… #oilandgas These Oil Giants Had Written Off Venezuela. Now They Are Taking a Second Look. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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These Oil Giants Had Written Off Venezuela. Now They Are Taking a Second Look.
Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips recently sent technical teams to assess their prospects in the Latin American country.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My career is closer to retirement than starting point, but if you’re starting out and reading one thing today… “Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass” #AI www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For those who miss the good old days when #oil prices were nice and stable, here’s the inflation-adjusted price of WTI crude over the last half-century.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The U.A.E.’s OPEC Bombshell Signals a New Middle East Order www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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The U.A.E.’s OPEC Bombshell Signals a New Middle East Order
After bearing the brunt of Iran’s counterattack, the financial powerhouse is strengthening ties with Israel and challenging Saudi Arabia.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There's now a relentless wave of vicious attacks on Jews, Jewish places of worship and businesses in the UK. Week after week, day after day. This descent resembles Kristallnacht-level hatred, and it keeps getting excused by #antisemitism masquerading as "anti-Zionism". www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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Two Jewish men stabbed in north London, with counter-terror police leading investigation
Police say two men in their 70s and 30s were attacked. The suspect, aged 45, also attempted to stab police officers, the Met says.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.ft.com/content/8c35... UAE to leave #Opec in blow to oil cartel
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UAE to leave Opec in blow to oil cartel
Move underlines long-running frustrations with group over production quotas
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Brave New World of #AI is created in two countries. Startling.
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What have the Americans ever done for us?! #America250 WSJ readers weigh in on America’s great inventions. Don’t forget the dishwasher! www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
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The Most Impactful U.S. Inventions
We asked readers which U.S. technologies, including the cotton gin, the microchip and even the dishwasher, have mattered most.
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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is a great corrective! "The petrodollar story gets cause & effect exactly backwards. Oil producers priced barrels & profits in $ in the 1970s bc an infrastructure of global $ banking, what we now call the eurodollar system, was already in place - not in NYC, but in London"
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There’s no such thing as the petrodollar
War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil
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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Thanks to the shale revolution the US will remain the most resilient of major actors in the unfolding #energy crisis. #oilandgas #StraitofHormuz ig.ft.com/global-energ...
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America’s bid for energy supremacy is being forged in war
The US stands to benefit as war in Iran reshapes oil and gas flows, but Europe and Asia are wary of becoming too reliant on American supply
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT I've been working on a new book! It's nearly finished & I'm v excited for you to read. TRADE WORLD A deep dive into the mysterious, magical networks of trade that make the modern world go round. Chock full of fascinating nuggets & mind-bending facts. Sept 2026👇 lnk.to/tradeworldbook
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Trade World
Go to Trade World.
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