Storing up trouble

Total’s long-expected announcement that it will stop crude processing at its 160,000 b/d La Mede refinery means the company is on track to hit its target of reducing its European refining and chemicals capacity by 20pc in 2012-17.

15 4月 2015

Bellwether or sack of potatoes?

The earnings season looms. BP and Total report on 28 April with the other big players following in short order.

15 4月 2015

Summertime blues for Europe’s refiners

European summer weather may just be beginning, but an Indian summer looks to be coming to a close for the continent’s refining sector.

14 4月 2015

The blame game

At the most recent Opec meeting, in Vienna last November, it looked for a moment as if there might be some detente with some of the bigger members of that loose organisation known as non-Opec.

10 4月 2015

Money talks

How do you survive when the value of your main product is worth half as much as it was six months ago?

10 4月 2015

Irrational exuberance

As a junior oil reporter many years ago, I was warned by my editor about “silly season” stories and other hardy perennials. A favourite was “Oil found in Dublin Bay”. It looks like “Southeast England is the next Texas” will become the UK general media’s new one, “Earthq

08 4月 2015

The magnificent seven

Shell’s $70bn takeover of BG will create the world’s largest LNG trader. But what are the impacts for the market? Here are seven ways Shell’s takeover of BG will impact LNG.

08 4月 2015

Unanswered questions

Shell’s reserve replacement ratio fell to 26pc in 2014, its lowest since 2007. How the company would address that little problem was one question that was answered today — a 25pc boost to proven reserves from buying BG, the consummation of a courtship that has been goss

07 4月 2015

Devil is in the detail

The extended negotiations in Lausanne that led to last week’s historic breakthrough on Iran’s nuclear activities meant the oil market was able to take a breath before reacting. News of the agreement came after many in Europe and the US had already departed for the long

06 4月 2015

Eyes turn to a rebound

After being caught between high service costs and plunging crude prices for more than 9 months, some US shale producers are starting to think about that inevitable rebound.

01 4月 2015

Show them the money

As if piercing complex layers of earth and rock to tap oil and gas deposits were not risky enough, oil and gas drillers must grapple with another daunting challenge: finding the money to fund their operations.

01 4月 2015

Shell’s arctic role

In the spring, an oil company’s fancy turns to thoughts of… drilling for oil in the Arctic.

31 3月 2015

First-quarter Brent avoids an ‘Icey’ blast

Tomorrow is April and, no fooling, Ice Brent is on track to close out the first quarter of 2015 below where it came in.

30 3月 2015

To the wire

Nuclear negotiations in Lausanne between Iran and the P5+1 powers are going to the wire. The self-imposed deadline for a framework agreement is midnight tomorrow. Major issues remain to be resolved, but there is cautious optimism among negotiators and nervousness among

26 3月 2015

Bad timing

UK finance minister George Osborne might consider taking Shell off his Christmas card list this year.

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