The following websites have been instrumental in helping me to understand the global economy and its relationship to oil and gas.  I have provided you with a combination of specific articles and generic website such as The Oil Council and The Centre for Global Energy Studies.  I hope you find them as useful as I have; both in the past and to this day.
 

African focused information
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Worldwide information from the Oil Council – a global network organisation
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Oil Drum - discussion site
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Oil & Gas Journal - subscription only site 
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Centre for Global Energy Studies
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Upstream – subscription only
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Commodities Report - Wsj.com
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Lips Institute
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Commodity Market News - Bloomberg
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Michael Steinhardt - how he foresaw the crash of 2008
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Armstrong Economics
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ZeroHedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Dow Theory Letters
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Markets at a Glance - Sprott Asset Management
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15 Brilliant Insights From Hedge Fund Superstar Kyle Bass
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GloomBoomDoom.com
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Global Forecasting Service - Individual commodity price forecasts
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Commodity Price Cycles: The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom; by Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sos; IMF Working Paper 11/283; December 1, 2011
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