Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,28 Jan 2015,18 mins

Falling Oil Price: What it Means for Islamic State

Business Daily

Available for over a year

A dramatic fall in world oil prices has prompted big job cuts and project cancellations across the industry, and could force Islamic State to look for different income sources. Tom Keatinge, director of financial crime & security studies at the Royal United Services Institute tells us how the militant jihadist group Islamic State, and the fight against it, have been affected by lower oil prices. The BBC's Briohny Williams reports on subsea umbilicals manufacturer Technip and how it is coping, given its link to the oil industry. And Simon Flowers, head of corporate analysis at consultants Wood Mackenzie, explains why the oil industry's response to this particular fluctuation in the oil price has been so dramatic, with large job losses across the industry and the cancellation of a number of high profile petrochemical projects.

Programme Website
More episodes