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07 июля 2015

Oil service firms are cannon fodder in the war on costs

There was a certain synchronicity about French service firm Technip’s cost restructuring plans coming out this week – a week that could be a pivotal moment for the oil service industry, containing clues as to how it got in such a bind and where it might go to from here.

03 июля 2015

Watch out Qatar! US LNG exports are catching up

US LNG export capacity under construction is nearly overtaking operational capacity in leading global exporter Qatar. The US surpassing Qatar would mark a complete turnaround in the global gas market.

02 июля 2015

Africa’s benchmark challenge

When drivers have to queue for hours to fill their cars amid a crippling fuel shortage in Africa’s largest oil producing nation, it is clear that something has gone wrong.

30 июня 2015

You need a beer, an airline and a PSA

There are few places in the world more welcoming than a semi-autonomous one. Particularly if there is oil to be found, you show up to find it and then the hosts say, “come on in, sit right down and how much land do you want, exactly?”

30 июня 2015

Oil sands growth belies bleak outlook

Canada’s oil sands output will grow steadily through 2020 on the back of a series of new start-ups, but the outlook turns sour soon after as operators defer new investments due to low oil prices.

30 июня 2015

Decoding China Pt 12

Gasoline refining margins have taken a knock in the past week. But what do falling prices on the Chinese spot market in oil products signal? Not necessarily a great deal about consumption, it turns out. Chinese consumers are driving and spending more than ever before.

24 июня 2015

Down and out in Abuja and Port Harcourt

Nigeria’s new National Assembly convened this week, and heard a stark message from the country’s new president Muhammadu Buhari: There’s no money left.

23 июня 2015

Saudi-Russian deal — more politics than oil

An agreement signed by Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Ali Naimi and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak in St Petersburg last week created the fleeting impression that Saudi Arabia had convinced Russia to co-operate with Opec to defend prices.

18 июня 2015

The elephant in the carbon war room

The G20 group of countries' undertaking six years ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies gave a significant boost to efforts to abolish artificial price support for one of the world's most powerful and wealthy industries. Despite the undertaking, subsidies have stubborn

17 июня 2015

Bakken is US divestiture hot spot

North Dakota’s Bakken region has become a hotspot for US independents looking to sell midstream assets such as pipelines to shore up their balance sheets to fund core drilling programs.

17 июня 2015

Crude prices — dancing on the ceiling?

Crude is becalmed. Having clawed off its January lows, Ice Brent has been caught at $62.50-70/bl for three months. But the next two weeks pose three challenges to both ends of that range; June could be the most important month for the crude price since December 2008, wh

16 июня 2015

Streets not paved with gold

"When it becomes serious, you have to lie," said Jean-Claude Juncker about secret meetings held to discuss the eurozone crisis. But the president of the EU could also have been commenting about government spending in Europe on construction projects.

11 июня 2015

Demand recovery — case not proven

Opec members held their output target at 30mn b/d when they met in Vienna last week. In the face of declared May production in the region of 1.8mn b/d higher than that, the admonishment to members to adhere to the “ceiling”, and the assertion that the 30mn b/d should be

10 июня 2015

Opposing views

Banks and research houses use proprietary tools, market intelligence and insights to make forecasts on everything from oil to gold to currencies and share prices. So it is no surprise when predictions vary.

09 июня 2015

North Sea – reelin’ in the years

Happy birthday, North Sea oil. And a significant one, too! So raise a glass — half full or half empty, depending on your countenance — to an industry, benchmark-hub and all-round way of life that was born this month in 1975 when the Argyll field, in the Central Graben a

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