John Daly

Biography

Dr. John C.K. Daly is the chief analyst for Oilprice.com, Dr. Daly received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. While at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he is currently a non-resident scholar, in 199 he founded The Cyber-Caravan, which continues today under the title, The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. He subsequently served as Director of Programs at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC before joining UPI as International Correspondent.
 
Dr. Daly’s work has appeared in appeared in Jamestown's Spotlight on Terror, Eurasia Daily Monitor, China Brief and Terrorism Monitor, along with Jane's Defense Group's Intelligence Watch Report, Jane's Intelligence Review, Terrorism Watch Report, Jane's Terrorism & Security Monitor and Islamic Affairs Analyst, Caspian Crossroads, ISN and the Christian Science Monitor. During 2003=-2006 Dr. Daly was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair on terrorism.  Dr. Daly has been a commentator on current events for CNN, the Hudson Institute, the Middle East Institute, National Public Radio, Al-Arabiya, Press TV and Radio Free Asia, among others.
 
Dr. Daly is currently President and CEO of U.S.-Central Asia Biofuels Ltd.”

Latest articles from John

• War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil?

  Published 29 December 2011 | viewed 13,402 times

  The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its…

• Venezuela to Open up Massive Natural Gas Field with European Investment

  Published 29 December 2011 | viewed 3,959 times

  On 23 December Spain's biggest oil firm Repsol YPF, S.A. and Italy’s Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi S.p.A., better known by the acronym ENI, signed a $1.5…

• U.S. Fukushima Medical Study Estimates 14,000 Dead U.S. Infants from Fallout

  Published 28 December 2011 | viewed 10,981 times

  Almost nothing to see here, move along. Eight months after Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor Daichi Fuskuhima complex was rocked by an earthquake measuring…

• Solar Breakthrough: Cheap Quantum Dot Solar Paint

  Published 27 December 2011 | viewed 1,573 times

  Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot…

• Fukushima, What Crisis? Russia’s Rosatom’s Banner Year

  Published 26 December 2011 | viewed 2,110 times

  Russian state-run Rosatom, has had a successful year, despite worldwide concerns about nuclear energy following the 11 March nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Diachi nuclear…

• The Falklands - Is There Oil?

  Published 24 December 2011 | viewed 5,726 times

  On 13 December British-based oil and gas exploration company Rockhopper Exploration Plc announced that a new well proved its Sea Lion field 80 miles off…

• Seeking to Circumvent Possible U.S. Trade Sanctions, China Buys Hawaiian Solar Company

  Published 24 December 2011 | viewed 4,422 times

  Chinese investment in the U.S. economy up to now has been primarily in the form of U.S. Treasury bills. But, reading the U.S. press and conservative…

• Pakistani Energy Sector About to Collapse?

  Published 23 December 2011 | viewed 3,086 times

  At what point does a nation’s energy infrastructure become unsustainable? According to Pakistani Intezar Mehdi, corporate lawyer and energy expert, the nation is on the…

• Another Asian Fukushima Imminent?

  Published 23 December 2011 | viewed 7,526 times

  Taiwan imports 99 percent of its energy, which is vital to its rapidly industrializing economy. The island nation’s electricity demand was recently growing at almost…

• In Warning to Polluters, Brazil to Impose Record Fine on Chevron and Transocean

  Published 21 December 2011 | viewed 3,058 times

  On 8 November oil began leaking from well 9-FR-50DP-RJS in 3,930 feet of water in Brazil’s Campo de Frade offshore field, 230 miles northeast of…

• Former Indian President Urges Military Control of Nation’s Dams, Rivers

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 2,246 times

  Imagine former U.S. President Bill Clinton suggesting that Washington nationalize the nation’s rivers, including the Mississippi. Or former French President Jacques Chirac suggesting that France…

• Kim Jong Il Dead - What About Energy?

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 2,694 times

  Well, its official – North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il has died and gone to meet his ancestors. Although you wouldn’t know it from…

• South Korean Nuclear Power Glitches Unsettle Government

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 2,093 times

  South Korea currently has 21 nuclear power plants (NPPs). According to government statistics, atomic power produces about 40 percent of the country’s total electricity supply,…

• Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?

  Published 19 December 2011 | viewed 8,225 times

  The last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking”) industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone…

• Brazil Bets Big on Wind Power

  Published 16 December 2011 | viewed 3,303 times

  Looking towards the future, one of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) is seriously investing in wind power. According to the Brazilian Association of Wind…

• Like Lazarus, Republicans Attempt to Revive Moribund Keystone XL Pipeline

  Published 15 December 2011 | viewed 1,811 times

  There’s cynicism, and then there’s Congress. In the latest example of dysfunctional Congressional gridlock, the Democratic-led Senate is certain to reject a House of Representatives-passed…

• Startling the Global Community, Canada Withdraws from the Kyoto Convention

  Published 15 December 2011 | viewed 5,802 times

  Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto…

• China's Oil Diplomacy a First

  Published 14 December 2011 | viewed 2,328 times

  China’s diplomatic efforts have traditionally been modes in the extreme, supporting unilateral engagement to solve thorny issues. No more. In a first, Beijing is inserting itself into…

• Iran, Besieged by Gasoline Sanctions, Develops GTL to Extract Gasoline from Natural Gas

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 6,645 times

  Over the past few weeks Iran, already beleaguered by a raft of existing U.N. and national sanctions, has seen the U.S. and the European Community…

• France's Nuclear Giant's Areva Stock Meltdown

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 2,737 times

  Call it a post-Fukushima hangover. On 12 December French nuclear energy giant Areva SA, the world’s biggest supplier of nuclear fuel and services, asked that trading…