With no recovery in sight for oil prices, will the “fragile five” governments of Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Algeria succumb to their fiscal pressures?

Global oil markets are stuck in bear territory, and it doesn’t look like that will be changing any time soon as a handful of global events conspire to keep prices down.

This week we examine a potential cleavage developing within OPEC ahead of the cartel’s June 5th meeting.

Nigeria is in the grips of a massive fuel shortage that has ground its national economy to a halt.

In this series, Geopoliticalmonitor.com analyzes political fallout from the global plunge in oil prices. Part one focuses on Venezuela and Cuba.

With every crashing through of a symbolic threshold - $90, $80, $70, and now $60 – many are wondering: How low can the price of oil possibly go?

Global oil prices plummeted recently with OPEC’s declaration of a price war against shale producers. But just how much budgetary pain can oil-dependent countries like Russia, Iraq, and Iran take?

There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes at today’s OPEC meeting than one might think.

There's a case to be made for a sustainable recovery for Libya's war-damaged energy industry.

On Friday, Hamas suspended its six-month truce with Israel, announcing that the ceasefire would not be extended.