Oct 2007

To meet its ambitious emissions targets, the UK's government and its companies need innovation and guidance. The Carbon Trust says it offers both. Derek Brower reports

Proposed increases in taxation on oil and gas projects in Alberta would damage the industry's long-term growth prospects, say energy companies. Tom Nicholls reports

The International Energy Agency took a much higher profile in world energy affairs under Claude Mandil. With a new executive director, Nobuo Tanaka, at the helm, what will be the agency's priorities? Interview by Alex Forbes

Even for an experienced deep-water producer, choosing a difficult and risky condensate field as your first operated development in Nigeria's deep offshore is brave. In December 2008, when first condensate is due to flow from the four-year Akpo development, Total will see if its confidence was justified, Martin Quinlan writes

Petrobras will miss production targets because of cost inflation and tightness in the services sector. Robert Cauclanis reports

Successful lease sales reflect continued robust interest in the Gulf of Mexico's deep waters, writes Anne Feltus

To fulfil its ambitions to create a single, united energy market supplied by a diversity of gas exporters, the EU needs infrastructure in place. Derek Brower looks at what is being built and where

After 16 years of isolation, Turkmenistan is opening its doors to Western investors. But its best prospects for expansion are linked with Russia and China, writes NJ Watson

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is developing fast. But what it is becoming depends on which member you ask, writes NJ Watson

As the war for talented employees intensifies, oil companies would be well advised to look east, writes Tom Nicholls

The UK must show leadership in the fight against global warming and could reap a valuable economic dividend by doing so, says Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth. Interview by Tom Nicholls

The last two years have been rough for BP, its employees and its shareholders, writes Derek Brower. Can its new leader, Tony Hayward, turn the company around?

The US is playing up the good-news angle about its security strategy for Iraq, but insiders say inadequate legislation is simply stoking up problems for the future. James Gavin reports

Forecasts for the growth of LNG – ranging from a bullish 7% a year to a stratospheric 10% – look increasingly unrealistic in a supply-constrained world, writes Alex Forbes

One of Norway's most spectacular offshore developments, the Hammerfest LNG facility and the Snøhvit gasfield, in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea, started producing in September. Despite a large budget over-run, Statoil – which became StatoilHydro on 1 October – says the project is profitable, Martin Quinlan writes

Investment in new and existing energy infrastructure, re-balancing the relationship with its suppliers and controlling demand are all necessary if the EU is to achieve its goals of reducing carbon emissions, enhancing energy security and promoting market liberalisation, writes Derek Brower

Participants in the expensive LNG projects scheduled for Western Australia are more optimistic about their prospects since the signing of some supply agreements. But some stiff obstacles remain, writes Ian Lewis

Calls from the UN for Australia and the US to play a full role in efforts to develop a new global climate agreement may be working, writes Ian Lewis

Is it safe to supply Russia with uranium? Australia must decide, writes Tom Nicholls

Even oil companies agree that flaring natural gas during oil production is wasteful, harms the environment and blights the lives of communities. So what is being done to stop it? Alex Forbes reports

OMV wants to create a new Austro-Hungarian energy empire. Derek Brower met the company's executives in Vienna last month to find out why