Irresistible force is meeting immovable object in South Korea. Rising crude prices -- or at least, rising until recently -- is running up against the country's regulation of gasoline prices and its desire to keep them as low as possible. Mriganka Jaipuriyar discusses the dilemma in this week's Oilgram News column, PetroDollars.
It's been a long time coming, but oil has flowed out of an Irish well. Platts' Ireland correspondent Kieran Moran has the story in this week's Oilgram News column, At the Wellhead.
With US production being touted by President Obama as an achievement in his quest for re-election, Gary Gentile tackles the issue of output from federal offshore waters. You'd think that counting it all up would be easy. It isn't, as he discusses in this week's Regulation & The Environment column from Platts Oilgram News.
What seemed like an intractable war over Canadian oil sands between the home country and the EU now seems to be a candidate for some sort of peace treaty. Platts' Canada correspondent Gary Park writes about it in this week's PetroDollars column from Platts Oilgram News.
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