31 octubre 2016 Daggers drawn as Mistry falls Great-great-great uncle Jamsetji* set up a trading firm in Mumbai 148 years ago. The company did rather well. Over the years it grew and turned the family name — Tata — into a global brand that made everything from cars to Tetley teabags.
26 octubre 2016 Viennese whirl Well, jet fuel demand is getting a boost from the upcoming Opec and Opec-non-Opec gatherings in Vienna. Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and oil minister Eulogio Del Pino have taken to the skies to lobby anyone who will listen on the need for production restraint, a
20 octubre 2016 The art of expecting the unexpected “The media and the public often mistakenly see Silicon Valley as the sole developer and purveyor of game-changing technologies. But as recent years have proven, the energy sector is a hi-tech pioneer, constantly inventing, testing and improving technologies and techniqu
20 octubre 2016 A ‘ripe’ time to visit Moscow? Venezuela´s presidential jet is fuelling up for President Nicolas Maduro´s next tour of Opec and non-Opec countries. The itinerary is still under wraps, but if the past is any guide, the jet will touch down in Moscow. That could happen right around the time national oil
19 octubre 2016 Shale vs Opec: Learning curves “We are climbing that learning curve. It is still early in the tight oil reservoirs. Our expertise today is about where we were several decades ago with conventional reservoirs,” says ConocoPhillips chief executive Ryan Lance, referring to unconventional, US tight oil e
12 octubre 2016 Quids in for BOPP manufacturers? The introduction of polymer bank notes in the UK a month ago has brought BOPP film into the minds and wallets of big spenders up and down the country, but this is one small facet of an industry that anonymously features heavily in most people’s day-to-day lives.
12 octubre 2016 Friendly ambush in Istanbul Russian energy minister Alexander Novak and Total chief executive Patrick Pouyanne were chatting and smiling before and after a high-profile session at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul last night.
07 octubre 2016 Gas gives nuclear a helping hand When nuclear power plants fail, what is left to pick up the slack?
06 octubre 2016 Opec and non-Opec in Istanbul: More a turkey than a delight You would not want to be the organiser of a prestigious oil industry conference right now. Your speaker list is finalised, your delegates booked in, press applications scrutinised, and then the energy minister of one Opec member or another drops the bombshell that an in
05 octubre 2016 It’s the economy, stupid For those still thunderstruck by Opec reaching an accord last week, allow the IMF to show you the workings. Its latest World Economic Outlook makes clear why economics trumped politics in Algiers.
29 septiembre 2016 Can Ilva’s new owner forge a brighter future for Taranto? The clock is ticking down on the sale of Europe’s largest steel production site — Italian steelmaker Ilva’s Taranto steelworks — with the facility’s administrators confirming last week that the new owner will be announced in the first half of 2017.
22 septiembre 2016 Is renewable energy threatening traditional energy sources? Rising renewables generation across Europe has made it increasingly difficult for conventional natural gas and coal-fired power plants to make a profit. Countries have responded to the problem in different ways, with some introducing capacity mechanisms to support conve
15 septiembre 2016 Don’t bet your shirt in the output sweepstake The Opec and IEA reports this week pretty much buried any remaining hopes of substantial market rebalancing this year.
13 septiembre 2016 Libya walks towards the light Of the many points of contention that will confront Opec ministers in Algiers, where they will gather informally at the end of this month in the latest push to, er, fix the oil market, is how to accommodate the group’s outliers.
