• Opinion

  Headwinds to tailwinds: are deepwater rig companies ready for a modernised upstream industry?

  • 03 7月 2023

  How can deepwater rig companies turn current weaknesses and threats into strengths and opportunities?

• Opinion

  The Middle East steps on the gas

  • 04 5月 2023

  What’s driving the impressive growth of the gas sector in the Middle East?

• Opinion

  Oil and gas Majors: venture capital strategies for the energy transition

  • 01 5月 2023

  The Majors have focused investment in nine areas of energy transition technology

• Opinion

  Gas resources in Latin America: the challenges to development

  • 03 5月 2023

  Natural gas demand is on the rise in Latin America – the region will need to maximise its gas supply to counter production decline in some countries.

• Opinion

  Headwinds on the upstream energy transition journey

  • 18 4月 2023

  The oil and gas industry has proved its resilience in recent years – but wherever you look there are more costs and more risk. Can it rise to the sustainability challenge?

• Opinion

  Can Africa help solve Europe’s gas supply crunch?

  • 18 4月 2023

  Europe needs gas, and Africa has plenty of it – but planned exports are fraught with risk

• Opinion

  Global upstream: four big themes to watch

  • 28 3月 2023

  From energy security to Upstream 2.0, our Global Upstream Update explores some of the biggest issues facing the industry.

• Opinion

  Japan pulls no punches on risks to Australian LNG exports

  • 12 4月 2023

  Business leaders see confidence in Australia’s investment climate at risk.

• Opinion

  Benchmarking 2023’s upstream FIDs

  • 12 4月 2023

  Capital discipline and carbon mitigation will be key elements of final investment decisions for upstream oil and gas projects this year

• Opinion

  Will lower gas prices spark switching in Europe and Asia?

  • 20 3月 2023

  In 2022, record high prices forced many European and Asian companies to switch from gas to alternative cheaper fuels, or reduce output. The market will seek a new balance this year

• Opinion

  US oil demand on course for long, slow decline

  • 10 2月 2023

  President Biden's state of the union speech focused on the future need for oil and the future of investment

• Opinion

  Has Norway’s oil and gas tax stimulus been a success?

  • 22 2月 2023

  Norway is monetising as much oil and gas as it can, while it still can. Other countries with challenged pre-FID resources may look to do something similar.

• Opinion

  US greenhouse gas emissions are falling, but not fast enough

  • 20 1月 2023

  Rise in emissions in 2022 likely to be short-lived, but the long-term trend is for only gradual decline.

• Opinion

  Introducing our Global Net Zero Pledges Scenario

  • 08 2月 2023

  In the build up to COP27, countries around the world made pledges to reach net zero around the middle of the century. How are they all faring on those pledges and is the world is on track for a 1.5c pathway?

• Opinion

  Green signals but no sharp turns expected in Brazil

  • 07 11月 2022

  Lula’s victory in the presidential election means a stronger emphasis on curbing emissions, but no radical changes in energy policy.

• Opinion

  How will the Asia Pacific upstream sector emerge from the crisis?

  • 17 6月 2020

  Clearly, economic and oil price recovery remains at risk. How much upstream capital will NOCs, Majors, IOCs and regional players allocate to Asia Pacific in this environment?

• Opinion

  The impact of travel restrictions on oil and gas supply chains

  • 28 5月 2020

  The impact of travel restrictions is being felt across the industry from production, costs and projects being delayed.

• Opinion

  The energy transition in the upstream oil & gas sector: a reality check?

  • 05 6月 2024

  Geopolitical, financial and technical headwinds have slowed energy transition progress, but ever-tighter climate regulation continues to drive change.

• Opinion

  A two-decade decline in exploration is driving the need for carbon neutral investment in Australia’s upstream sector

  • 27 5月 2024

  A turbulent period of change has seen many legal and fiscal changes as Australia tries to balance its gas and energy transition strategy

• Opinion

  Counting carbon: how to set oil and gas industry emissions targets

  • 13 4月 2021

  Oil and gas firms are increasingly committing to emissions-reduction goals, but their scope and methodologies vary. How can the industry set standardised, meaningful targets that support the energy transition and enable investors to assess risk?

• Opinion

  Australia’s gas conundrum

  • 19 3月 2021

  While it may well claim the crown of world’s largest LNG exporter in 2021, Australia faces rising problems with its gas.

• Opinion

  Asian buyers stay cool as US LNG hit by the deep freeze

  • 24 2月 2021

  So, when freezing conditions hit the southern US last week, resulting in feedgas into LNG plants collapsing from above 10 bcfd to just below 2 bcfd, and with some Texas price markers soaring north of US$400/mmbtu, anxiety levels should have been rising.

• Opinion

  Could oil Majors and Independents generate record free cash flow this year?

  • 25 2月 2021

  IOCs have just been through one of their toughest ever years. But the sector is primed for a V-shaped free cash flow recovery, potentially to record levels. What’s fuelling the shift in fortunes, and how will it shape corporate priorities?

• Opinion

  Are Japan’s upstream players heading for the exit?

  • 02 2月 2021

  Japan’s trading houses are re-thinking their long-term strategies around upstream investment.

• Opinion

  Biden’s climate plans aim at job creation

  • 29 1月 2021

  The president wants to support renewables and EVs, while having little immediate impact on oil and gas

• Opinion

  China-US relations, tech wars and climate change

  • 26 1月 2021

  When President Xi Jinping spoke of the risks of ‘tech wars’ at the World Economic Forum’s virtual Davos Agenda event on Monday, there was little doubt who he was aiming at. At a White House briefing later that day, press secretary Jen Psaki stated that “Technology is of course at the centre of US-China competition.”

• Opinion

  Making sense of Asia’s sky-high spot LNG prices

  • 20 1月 2021

  None of us could have foreseen what happened this winter. Cost of supply became an irrelevance as Asian spot LNG prices went into orbit. From lows of around US$2/mmbtu in April, the JKM price soared north of US$32/mmbtu last week, with media reports of Trafigura purchasing a cargo from Total at US$39.3/mmbtu.

• Opinion

  Catch, don’t release: the dawn of the CCS era

  • 11 8月 2021

  With three of the largest gas projects approved this year – Barossa (Australia), North Field East (Qatar) and Ghasha (UAE) coming with associated CCS plans, do barriers exist for carbon sequestration's continued growth?

• Opinion

  Three lessons the renewables boom can learn from the shale bust

  • 21 7月 2021

  What could the renewable energy industry and its investors learn from shale's experience? A few interesting points of comparison are starting to emerge.

• Opinion

  US oil producers live up to their promises on spending restraint

  • 16 7月 2021

  The recovery in crude prices, taking WTI to over $70 a barrel, has meant that the cash flows coming in to US E&Ps have been soaring. But the industry’s response to these price signals, in terms of increased activity and production, has been much more cautious than has been typical over the past decade. Management teams have talked about strengthening balance sheets and returning cash to shareholders, and now they are delivering on those commitments.