20 April 2018 Taking back control "We should not jump the gun, we should not be complacent… we still have work ahead of us," Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said in response to the idea that the Opec producer pact is "mission accomplished."
18 April 2018 Ecuador’s tempest on the border The same territory where the tiny Opec country produces, transports and refines most of its oil is suffering from violence fueled by a bottomless appetite for drugs elsewhere around the world.
16 April 2018 Opec, non-Opec — time to grasp the nettle Opec and non-Opec crude producers may be on track to meet target levels in May, but the production cuts extension runs to the end of December, so what to do?
11 April 2018 Northwest Europe meets record gas demand Europe faced high heating demand in the face of bitter cold in late February-early March, and Europe's declining gas production could mean more prompt price spikes even if it is not as cold.
21 March 2018 Varo’s IPO provides no pointers Does a European downstream IPO, as rare an event as it may be, signal a brand new day for the sector?
02 March 2018 Valemaxes could spell Capesize market’s doom Vale's new strategy to use Valemax very large ore carriers (VLOCs) will likely make the company more competitive in key markets, but it will also have substantial effects on the Capesize spot market.
28 February 2018 Cold chaos highlights gas supply tightness There are longer-term factors to take away from the rapid rise in European natural gas prices during a recent cold snap.
22 February 2018 Beast from the east shows storage value Europe's natural gas market is showing many parallels with the 2012-13 winter, and there are questions of where northwest Europe's flexibility would come from in a cold winter similar to that of a few years ago.
21 February 2018 Boom time for scenarios The scenarios business is a growth industry. These documents are essentially for internal planning and outline how a company is thinking about the future, yet they can still make front-page news.
13 February 2018 Hard exit, soft exit The Opec, non-Opec partnership must decide how and when to cut the knot, and since the early days of the agreement the desirability of future co-operation has been mentioned time and again.
07 February 2018 Waiting for Sverdrup While the wait for the Johan Sverdrup field is almost over, the need for another big find is pressing as Norway's crude oil production is on an inexorable downward slope.
30 January 2018 The ghost of Chinguetti Mauritania was once the great new hope for crude production after the Chinguetti prospect was confirmed as holding hundreds of millions of barrels. But there are no guarantees in E&P.
29 January 2018 Rethinking plastic The plastics industry is wary that some discourse around curbing plastic waste oversimplifies an issue. How should entities reduce use or increase recycling while meeting consumer expectations?
19 January 2018 Caracas outruns the barrel counters Every month, there are fewer Venezuelan barrels to count, and in the midst of an economic catastrophe state-owned PdV has no money to arrest natural declines of at least 20pc a year.
04 January 2018 Zombie LNG There are three tests that need to be passed before the global LNG market can accurately be described as "oversupplied," and the market has not yet met any of these criteria.
