Mar 2015

Environmental concerns have hindered collecting data on UK shale-gas resources

Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi spoke in Berlin on 4 March, giving his view of the market and explaining the kingdom’s oil policy

After a two-year hiatus, oil drilling is set to return to the Falkland Islands as the region's explorers prepare for a high-stakes campaign

Despite the prices being low, the PNG LNG industry has experts talking

The oil price fall points a spotlight on the UK’s out-of-control operating costs

As companies cut costs, output growth of shale has also fallen

The development will increase the country's gas production by a quarter

THE low oil price is starting to take its toll on US shale production. As companies have pulled rigs out of the oil patch and decide not to start producing from new wells, shale output growth has ground to a halt

The drop in oil price and increasing costs have led the US company to minimise spending by 12%, but not in Russia

The refinery, which was previously shut down, has been sold to the Singapore company

The country's Lake Albert oilfields could start producing within the next three years

The measures should result in higher production and lower tax for the industry

The prices have fallen to levels seen in early 2012 thanks to continuing supplies of shale

The line will link Azerbaijani gas to Europe, but Balkan want some for their own energy resources

The Asian nation relies on petroleum exports for its economy but could see its wells dry within a few years

Falling natural gas prices and a plunging rig count are doing little to slow the US shale-gas juggernaut

"There was screaming and shouting - It was chaos" - a soldier from the country's Petroleum Facilities Guard speaks out about the gunmen's murderous raid on the Ghani oilfield

Pessimism has arrived as oil companies continue to make cuts

Crude prices have been dented as stocks remain high in North America

Global demand has been increasing steadily, with gains expected by the IEA

It's the first time in 40 years that carbon dioxide emissions have not risen

While conventional oil sees cuts, Alberta's output will keep rising - for now

Rig counts, demand, contango, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iran and ever-rising supplies from North America: they all point to further fluctuations in crude prices

Lower oil prices are re-shaping oil and gas operations in the North Sea — with UK waters seeing the most drastic changes

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices have fallen partly due to the oil price crash

Alberta's unconventional output will keep rising - for now. Derek Brower reports

Justin Jacobs reviews a documentary which - before it was pulled by the government - exposes the depth and severity of China's pollution problems

The obsession among oil analysts with the weekly rotary rig count in the US and what it might mean for marginal supply from North America has let a bigger, longer-term obstacle to price recovery emerge almost unseen.

Oil companies seeking to cut costs by reducing numbers of engineers and other technical personnel risk becoming uncompetitive within a decade. Indeed, now is the time to invest in human resources, write Jean-Marie Rousset and Pierre Bismuth from SBC

Hugh Ebbutt, Richard Forrest, Vance Scott and Jim Pearce, of A T Kearney, highlight the opportunity offered by lower prices to reset portfolios and get costs down - and to come out leaner and stronger

All firms are looking for financing, but some will face more difficult times than others

Jason Fox and Olivia Caddy, from Bracewell & Giuliani, consider the debt markets for E&P companies and the changes to the financial landscape since the last oil price rout

As the US is poised to become a major gas exporter, operators are seeing a broader range of finance options, writes Inosi Nyatta

With low oil prices, companies are seeking financing to help stay afloat

Oil and gas companies have grown more comfortable with Sharia structures, which now figure prominently in some sizeable Middle Eastern financings

President Xi Jinping has revealed a new mixed ownership model for the state sector

Petronas have raised $5bn, challenging fears that lower prices would threaten the Asian oil markets

Adam Dann and Tim Sumner of international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (BLP) look at the financing options available to Africa-focused companies

Western sanctions have contributed to the fall in confidence in Russian oil

These are tough times for all but the biggest US unconventional energy producers. For small firms, suddenly deprived of income following the fall in oil prices, expansion plans are evaporating and financing to tide them over the slump has been hard to find, forcing some to seek buyers