The orphans of Odebrecht

The first night in jail was probably not too uncomfortable for Ecuador’s once-powerful vice president Jorge Glas.

02 10月 2017

Does big data mean big profits for refiners?

At a recent refining conference in Brussels, Italian refiner Saras’ managing director, Dario Scaffardi, extolled the virtues of big data and digitisation to a packed auditorium.

27 9月 2017

Saudi women permitted to drive — what does it mean?

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdel-Aziz’s decree to allow women to hold driving licences from June 2018 has come as something of a surprise. No leaks, trial balloons or statements were issued to signal that the decision was imminent.

22 9月 2017

The five stages of LNG grief

This is a story about how LNG producers went through the five stages of grief, before accepting the market will be oversupplied and adjusting their trading strategies accordingly.

15 9月 2017

Energy business is still at blockchain 0.0

Blockchain technology may be approaching the business mainstream as its most well-known application – cryptocurrency — made the July cover of Forbes magazine, but the application is still closer to the back page for the oil and gas sector.

08 9月 2017

Taper tantrums

The European Central Bank has signalled the end is nigh for its role as the stimulator of last resort. Seven years into ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” (more on that phrase later), and the eurozone economy is nearly deemed ready to stand unaided.test

06 9月 2017

Gatecrashers

Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden and his BP counterpart, Bob Dudley, were the star guests at the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen yesterday. To the surprise of no one, they used their keynote addresses in the spiritual home of the UK's oil and gas industry to

11 8月 2017

Italy should let the market loose

European energy traders association Efet has called for more flexible Italian gas storage rules, and September could be a good time to test this idea.

10 8月 2017

Opec report – more questions than answers

The market looks to the Opec monthly report for guidance. Over the years since it started at a few faxed pages, rather thin on content, that turned up when it turned up, it has acquired some gravitas, a counterpoint to the IEA report.

24 7月 2017

LNG and Algerian gas compete for southern Europe

This is the third in a series of blogs using data from Argus Data and Downloads, which are available to Argus Direct subscribers here.

13 7月 2017

Makers vs Takers

“We are a price taker. We are not a price maker, unfortunately. So, as we have just re-discovered, if you are not a price maker but a price taker, your job is to control breakeven,” Total chief executive Patrick Pouyanne told the World Petroleum Congress (WPC) this week

12 7月 2017

Gazprom’s budget constraints drive sales

This is the second in a series of blogs using data from Argus Data and Downloads, which are available to Argus Direct subscribers here.

11 7月 2017

Europe awash with LNG and Russian gas

This is the first of a series of blogs using data from Argus Data and Downloads, which are available to Argus Direct subscribers here.

07 7月 2017

Mind your language

There has been an outbreak of unity within Opec, just when it needed it the most.

30 6月 2017

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Tanker owners are looking to rejuvenate their fleets. Nothing new, I hear you say, ordering new ships is what owners do.

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