Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies and director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, as well as associate director of the Rice Energy Program. Her research focuses on oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics.

Striking Oil Ain’t What It Used to Be

On January 7, the oil and gas companies Apache Corporation and Total SA announced a major oil find off the coast of Suriname…