Jan 2018

There's plenty for companies to mull over in the latest European directive aimed at cleaning up the financial sector

While Australia enjoys an LNG export boom, it's also looking at imports as one way of meeting domestic demand

The Australian government has opted for reliability over renewables in the power sector

The pattern of consolidation and restructuring among oil companies during the past year looks set to continue

A lack of clarity about the origins and aims of the country's demonstrations make predictions for their outcome difficult. But, for now, the energy industry is unscathed

The petrochemicals sector seeks to overcome financing and previous mismanagement problems to prepare for its expansion

Sri Lanka has presented some unlikely roadblocks to China's Silk Road project

The East Asian country is hungry for LNG and is on course to become one of the world's top importers

Oil production, trade, renewables and technology top our list of major questions facing America's energy industry heading into the new year

The revival of Keystone XL and Canada's tricky pipeline politics doomed Energy East

Investors want to see oil companies striving for value rather than volume in the year ahead

With an eye on shareholders' returns, oil companies are reining in costs and increasing internally generated cash flows

The prospect of further violence in the Niger Delta risks undermining the country's efforts to woo investors back to the hydrocarbons sector with improved legislation

Don't bet against the president's imminent Iran decision lifting oil prices. But don't expect the rally to last either

The AFC is committed to providing financial support for energy infrastructure development across the continent in a difficult investment climate

The administration has proposed a sweeping opening of America's waters to oil drilling. But politics and industry realities will rein in the ambitions

Continuing investigations by UK authorities into the temporary closure of a key North Sea pipeline network could signal further safety worries

Producers are making the North Dakota tight oil play an attractive place to drill again, but it will struggle to compete with the Permian

With natural gas from the super-giant Zohr field now flowing ashore, plans are in place to make distribution of the fuel more efficient and to expand wind power

It's a tough environment for exploration, but some countries are making headway

Burdened by political and economic crises at home, the autonomous region faces difficult talks with a newly confident federal government in Baghdad

The future of the KRI's oil sector is uncertain, with the federal government determined to bring all the country's production and exports back under its wing

Fossil fuel merchants including oil companies are living on borrowed time, argues a new book

Major oil and gas discoveries make the country set to move from speculative play to producer

Can an overhaul of concessions lure companies to the country's frontier acreage?

Energy Web Atlas leads the market with expanded LNG and pipeline data and improved import and annotation functions

Despite the perennial shadow of political turbulence, upstream gas and LNG import projects are progressing

2018 looks set to be another big year in renewables deal-making for the oil majors

The Maduro government wants a new deal on its debt. Things are going to get messy

Palestinians' hopes that a gas discovery made offshore 18 years ago can be developed are unlikely to be realised soon

With the country's contentious elections out of the way, Tullow hopes that development of its oil reserves will now progress

Shell and Petrobras were the big winners in Brazil's latest upstream bid round, along with backers of Brazil's oil reforms

NNPC has expansion plans for its lucrative upstream, and hopes to stem losses in the downstream, as the company awaits major restructuring

While keeping oil at the core of its operations, Saudi Aramco is looking to a greener future and preparing to import gas for the first time

ExxonMobil and its partner are racing ahead with their major Liza discovery in Guyana, at Latin America's exploration frontier. Others are struggling to replicate the success

Fixating on the timing of a peak in oil demand is misplaced. Rather, the peak's significance is in shifting the paradigm, from perceived scarcity to perceived abundance. And it poses a problem for low-cost producers

Shell is happy to give the Penguins project a helping hand

Opec cut, shale grew, stocks fell, demand soared, prices rose and balance—the oil market's magic word—drew near

A new president brought change on the regulatory front while tight oil rose again

Nuclear sabre-rattling shook Asia's security foundations, but 2017 heralded breakthroughs for EVs and LNG

Subdued oil prices and intractable wars cast a shadow over the year

The kingdom will experience austerity and social reform, and clamp down on corruption and dissent

Energy demand is expected to pick up in the year ahead after faltering in 2017. EV sales will rise

Russian producers grudgingly adhered to the cuts and a stronger oil price helped perk up the economy

Trump ditched Paris, Paris got Macron, Isis lost Mosul

M&A in the region picked up in 2017, but European output was still expected to wane

Senegal's and Mozambique's projects gained momentum, Nigeria's production started to rise again

Politics again dragged down Venezuela's oil industry, but helped lift up Mexico and Argentina

Australia and the US brought significant new supply on line. But who would buy it all?

With its Khazzan field boosting Oman's liquefied natural gas output, BP has moved into marketing the fuel

White House hostility harmed, but didn't destroy, the international fight against climate change

Wind and solar continued their march in 2017, while battery technology and electric vehicles came of age

Transactions defied low oil prices, as investors bet on long-term economics

The fate of the relationship with Russia will be critical as balances tighten and competitor output builds

Almost two decades after a Petroleum Industry Bill was first mooted and after numerous revisions, the country is poised to finally enact key elements of it

EVs, fuel-economy standards and perceptions of supply abundance are not about to end oil-market volatility

Forget a peak—falling production from existing fields should be the market’s immediate focus

The industry will spend tens of billions of dollars closing down old offshore fields

Collapsing shipments point to deep pain in the country's oil industry

Unless oil prices surge, drilling activity will remain subdued next year. Any increase will breed cost inflation

The global gas trade is casting off its past and becoming more like other internationally traded commodities

Ships must pollute less. Their owners can't ignore the impending regulatory changes

What do the EIA's weekly production figures tell the market—and what don't they?

Deal making recovered in 2017 and will continue to pick up in 2018 as investors look for new growth opportunities

Oil executives will have to invest in their digital futures in 2018 to keep up

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