The Fragmenting Barrel – Part II: Thomas Petrie, energy geopolitics, and the emerging hydrocarbon realignment
June 18, 2026
(Oil & Gas360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – If Matt Simmons helped explain the growing engineering complexity beneath the world’s oil reservoirs, Thomas A. Petrie spent decades explaining something equally important above ground: oil is never just a commodity. It is capital, power, diplomacy, security, industrialization, and national survival operating simultaneously. In Following Oil, Petrie chronicled how energy systems reorganize
