Oil is one of the world’s most durable global commodities. With few ready commercial substitutes, its extraordinary staying power is demonstrated by its enduring energy sector dominance, even as market prices fluctuate dramatically and geopolitical disruptions strike.

Experts from the Carnegie Endowment, Stanford University, and University of Calgary participated in a Reddit AMA on December 5.

Focusing mainly on petroleum products has handicapped efforts to help the oil industry make choices consonant with a low-carbon world.

Experts from Carnegie and the University of Calgary will discuss the results of the COP21 Climate Change Talks.

The International Energy Agency forecasts that oil will remain the world’s largest energy source for the next several decades, even as action on climate change ramps up. What roles will regulation, innovation, and competition play in the oil sector in the years ahead?

The Oil-Climate Index research team participated in an online Q&A to discuss the Oil-Climate Index, a first-of-its-kind tool that analyzes the overall climate impacts of different oils from extraction to refining to combustion.

Oil is changing. Conventional oil resources are dwindling as tight oil, oil sands, heavy oils, and others emerge.

Oil is changing. The oils themselves, how they are extracted and processed, and the products into which they are made are shifting in substantial ways.