28 febrero 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 febrero 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 febrero 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 febrero 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 febrero 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 enero 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 enero 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 enero 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.
13 diciembre 2017 Clarity and crisis The spike in UK gas prices yesterday demonstrated that the NBP remains a well-functioning hub, while Italy’s PSV struggled to deal with a halt to Tag pipeline flows following an explosion at Austria’s Baumgarten compressor station.
08 diciembre 2017 Ukraine’s dead souls Ukraine’s colourful politics drew the attention of the European media again this week.
30 noviembre 2017 Northwest Europe holds stocks back European near-curve prices rallied in November despite early indications that there will be more gas left in storage at the end of the winter than in most recent years.
28 noviembre 2017 Opec losing the Latin beat Don’t be surprised to find an idle Spanish language interpreter or two along Vienna’s Helferstorferstrasse this week, as Latin America’s sole Opec members are preoccupied with their rocky home fronts.
20 noviembre 2017 A wasted opportunity Limited flexibility in the auction schedule for buying pipeline capacity has resulted in an opportunity to profit from the NBP’s premium this winter being lost.
20 noviembre 2017 Oil to petchems — flavour of the month You’re an oil refinery manager, somewhere in Europe. You can sell diesel for $570/t, or ethylene for $1,120/t.
17 noviembre 2017 Can EU car sales motor on while the UK skids to a halt? The auto industry’s importance to the polypropylene (PP) market is growing all the time in Europe.
