Feb 2010

The shale-gas revolution that started with the drillers is entering the boardrooms. Expect the North American natural gas scene to look very different in coming years, writes Derek Brower

Global oil supply has risen steadily in recent months

In a new book, journalist Peter Maass takes a voyage into the troubled regions of the world and finds oil corrupting almost everything it touches

With oil and gas companies' balance sheets in better shape and some prime assets back on the market, corporate activity is set to accelerate, writes James Gavin

Exports of Algerian LNG are falling and new projects are delayed; there is trouble at the top of Sonatrach; and IOCs have snubbed recent licensing rounds, writes Conal Walsh

Marathon Oil says the world LNG market will not support Equatorial Guinea's planned second train until 2016-17, but the government wants an earlier start-up – and has pressure to apply, Martin Quinlan writes

Enhanced oil-recovery techniques can boost production from ageing oilfields by up to 60%. Small wonder that US oil companies are turning to tertiary-recovery methods to slow, or reverse output declines

Iran has grand plans to export gas by pipeline to Europe, South Asia and Arab Gulf states, but local, regional and international politics will hinder development, writes Digby Lidstone

Concerns about the vulnerability of the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz ebb and flow depending on the international mood over Iran, writes Digby Lidstone

Are oil companies acting responsibly yet? Professor Jedrzej George Frynas from Middlesex University Business School writes

Governments still have opportunities to rescue 2009's disappointing UN climate-change meeting in Copenhagen, writes Ian Lewis

Forget the failure of the Copenhagen summit. The real threat to the war on climate change could be the gathering swell of scepticism of the whole endeavour, writes Derek Brower

The US government has authorised itself to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, with potentially costly consequences for the oil and power sectors

With valuable exploration acreage in the US and overseas, and oil and gas production on the rise, Anadarko is one of 2010's prime acquisition targets, writes NJ Watson

Drilling activity in the UK portion of the North Sea plummeted in 2009, with only 78 exploration and appraisal wells spudded – the lowest level in five years and a 35% drop compared with 2008

Total and ConocoPhillips are to quadruple capacity at their Surmont oil-sands project in Canada.

Egypt plans to invest $3bn in the Nile Delta and Mediterranean Sea

KAZAKHSTAN is negotiating with an international oil group, led by BG and Eni, to obtain a stake in the Karachaganak field as part of a strategy to gain greater control over its vast natural resources

The UK's ambitious offshore wind-power programme – the world's largest – has moved into a new phase with the selection of firms to build some 30 gigawatts (GW) of capacity by 2020. Now there just remains the small task of getting the job done

E.On expects gas-demand growth in Europe this year, but shale-gas development could fundamentally alter the continent's market, leaving Gazprom out in the cold

Developments in the US and Australian unconventional gas sectors have grabbed the headline in recent years, but new regions are about to step into the limelight

A new horizontal drilling tool has proved a cost effective way to maximise CBM output and increase recovery

Oil prices dip on negative US economic news, dollar strength. But where will they go next?

A UK tax break for natural gas developments west of Shetland could unlock a fifth or more of the country's reserves

Hugo Chavez has accepted that he needs to be pragmatic and bring in foreign oil companies' expertise and capital to develop Venezuela's Orinoco heavy-oil belt

The world could be in its biggest energy-transition phase since the start of the oil economy, the new focus: natural gas

Crude-oil futures markets are volatile, with intra-day ranges in price surging in recent days

The world could be in its biggest energy-transition phase since the start of the oil economy; the new focus? Natural gas