08 10月 2015 That old devil called geopolitics If there is one takeaway from this week’s Oil and Money conference in London, it is that the industry’s big hitters are as wary as ever of the next 18 months.
05 10月 2015 “CO2 bubble” goes mainstream The stark warning from Bank of England governor Mark Carney of the serious risks posed by climate change to global financial stability marks the first time that such a high-profile figure in the financial community has lent credence to the concept of a carbon bubble.
02 10月 2015 Reading between the lines The headlines were stolen by a letter to the US Congress from 10 heads of global food and drinks companies demanding governments promote a strong deal to combat climate change.
01 10月 2015 Crude —It’s all gone quiet over there After the wild ructions of late August when, under cover of a public holiday in London, Brent shifted up and then down in ranges of 10pc a day for two days, September brought a relatively becalmed crude price.
29 9月 2015 US shale M&A set to take off It has taken almost a year of low crude oil prices. But the stage finally looks set for a step up in US shale M&As, with smaller deals expected to dominate rather than full corporate acquisitions.
28 9月 2015 Frozen out — Shell’s arctic adventure comes to an end Shell’s polar adventure is finally over. The company has failed to find sufficient quantities of commercial oil in the Arctic this summer and will consequently knock the whole venture on the head.
24 9月 2015 Behind Colombia´s Havana handshake Colombia is used to patching up its oil pipelines. Anti-government rebels routinely bombed pipelines and other oil facilities as part of a violent armed conflict of more than a half of century. It was bad, but it was largely predictable.
24 9月 2015 Are US indies giving up on 2016? In the staring contest that’s lasted for more than a year between Opec and US oil producers, the indies may have blinked.
23 9月 2015 Total trickle down Total has become the latest exponent of the ‘lower-for-longer’ mantra, today laying bare the effect of the new oil price environment on its present and future activities.
16 9月 2015 Crude supply — what if no-one blinks? There is a great, unspoken “what if” in the stand-off between Opec’s strategists and the rest of the world’s oil producers — what if no-one blinks?
14 9月 2015 Opec chases its own tail On the face of it, the September market reports from the IEA and from Opec itself offer encouragement to the oil exporters group.
11 9月 2015 The worst in 30 The chorus of voices saying the current oil market downturn is coming close to that seen in 1986-87 — when prices collapsed to under $20/bl — is getting louder.
10 9月 2015 Paris holds the key to China-EU ETS link-up A survey of participants in China’s carbon markets flagged that prices in a national emissions trading scheme (ETS) to be launched in 2017 are expected to steadily rise from about 40 yuan/t CO2 equivalent (€5.63/t CO2e; $6.27/t CO2e) emitted at the start, to about Yn70/
09 9月 2015 Bitumen price prize for UK highwaymen Drivers have not been the only European oil consumers enjoying this year’s slump in prices — those building the roads are also reaping the benefits of a drop in raw material costs.
08 9月 2015 China's LNG surplus heads west The LNG glut is coming. Everyone's been saying that for years. But how is it actually going to pan out? We already have indications.
