• Editorial

  How much does a recovery cost?

  • 20 4月 2017

  After a flurry of development activity in Q1 2017, the US Lower 48 onshore sector is beginning to feel the squeeze of cost inflation. Although this development was widely anticipated, forecasts vary significantly depending on the source as well as project location.

• Editorial

  Marathon's US$700 million Delaware bolt-on acquisition

  • 30 3月 2017

  On March 21, Marathon bought 21,000 net acres in the Delaware Basin for US$700 million from Black Mountain Oil & Gas and other private sellers. The deal comes soon after Marathon entered the Permian through a US$1.1 billion deal with BC Operating. In our latest Insight, our analysts examine the deal and weigh the potential risks and benefits of expanding Marathon's acreage.

• Editorial

  Judge finds EPA did not conduct job loss analysis of regulations

  • 05 4月 2017

  The Environmental Protection Agency has filed an appeal after a judge ruled the agency had failed to adequately evaluate coal industry job losses.

• Editorial

  What does a Paris Agreement departure mean for US energy?

  • 02 6月 2017

  Trump's expected decision to abandon the Paris Agreement is unsurprising, given pre-election comments on climate change and the broadly pro-fossil fuel agenda of the administration. Without US participation, global greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets would ordinarily be harder to hit.

• Editorial

  What can upstream learn from downstream?

  • 15 6月 2017

  Understand how downstream operating models are influencing upstream strategy.

• Editorial

  2035: What will the global energy landscape look like?

  • 10 4月 2017

  Hear Paul McConnell, Research Director for Global Trends, discuss the major themes shaping the energy industry over the next 20 years.

• Editorial

  2035: Can electric vehicles put the brakes on oil demand?

  • 11 4月 2017

  In the latest instalment of our global trends to 2035 series, we forecast the threat to oil demand from electric vehicles

• Editorial

  2035: The evolution of a global gas market

  • 14 4月 2017

  Assess the shifting supply and demand dynamics that will foster the growth of the international gas trade.

• Editorial

  Mexico hopes to benefit from its own shale boom

  • 14 3月 2017

  Mexico announced a licensing round scheduled for this June, opening up its unconventional acreage just as we're heading out of the downturn.

• Editorial

  Upstream companies to spend US$25 billion more in 2017

  • 10 3月 2017

  As the price of oil creeps up, are upstream companies primed to ramp up activity?

• Editorial

  Pioneer's Permian pathway to 1 million boe/d

  • 21 2月 2017

  Pioneer Natural Resources guided to one million barrels equivalent per day (70% oil) by 2026 and pledged cash flow neutrality in 2018. Sounds great, but is it doable?

• Editorial

  Filling the gap in corporate emissions reporting

  • 13 2月 2017

  With carbon emissions performance now front of mind for oil and gas companies, the need for a standardised approach to data reporting is apparent.

• Editorial

  Tight oil opportunity update: the Permian is only part of it

  • 09 6月 2017

  Although West Texas is consuming over 30% of all Lower 48 capex this year, the Bakken, Eagle Ford, SCOOP/STACK and Powder River Basin account for another 25% of total US onshore spend in 2017. With investors increasingly focused on tight oil activity outside of the Permian, what does the future look like for these key plays?

• Editorial

  Global nickel outlook: a pendulum of uncertainty

  • 24 3月 2017

  Since 1 January 2017, the nickel price has swung wildly on sentiment alone. Facing a relaxed export ban in Indonesia and potential mine closures in The Philippines, a great deal of uncertainty surrounds the market, which feeds China’s nickel pig iron (NPI) production and thus, the market for stainless steel.

• Editorial

  Singapore carbon pricing: an accelerating trend?

  • 07 4月 2017

  As the first Southeast Asian nation to adopt a tax on carbon, Singapore could encourage other countries to follow suit

• Editorial

  LNG versus pipeline gas: how do lifecycle emissions compare?

  • 25 6月 2017

  Carbon emissions intensities for natural gas projects can differ drastically – we analyse the many variables at play.

• Editorial

  The ageing process: carbon emissions and asset maturity

  • 22 2月 2017

  The carbon emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement look set to have far-reaching implications for long-term corporate strategies.

• Editorial

  Did you know?

  • 12 10月 2017

  Lucy Cullen explains how the temperature affects LNG output and the knock-on effect for global trade.

• Editorial

  Did you know? Prelude LNG

  • 05 10月 2017

  Kerry-Anne Shanks reviews the Prelude FLNG project.

• Editorial

  Did you know? LNG shipping capacity

  • 12 10月 2017

  Nicholas Browne sets LNG shipping capacity in context.

• Featured

  Non-OPEC decline rates remain stable until 2020

  • 27 9月 2017

  Why haven't decline rates accelerated in the low-price market? We look at short- and long-term factors keeping rates on an even keel through the end of the decade.

• Opinion

  Emissions intensity: portfolio composition is the key

  • 20 9月 2017

  Dr Gavin Law explains why his new research into emissions intensity has revealed that operators' portfolios hold the key to the intensity of their carbon output.

• The Edge

  To-do list: how to attract capital back to the oil sector

  • 07 9月 2017

  The mood has definitely changed. That much has been clear at the biannual Offshore Europe mega conference in Aberdeen.

• Opinion

  LNG supply on the up and up

  • 06 12月 2016

  Despite the LNG industry’s well-documented challenges, there are reasons to be positive.

• Editorial

  The evolution of FLNG concepts and costs

  • 25 10月 2016

  With a fair amount of spare LNG likely to be washing around the market over the next few years, buyers aren’t exactly queuing up to sign contracts and support new projects.

• Editorial

  What opportunities does decommissioning offer?

  • 15 12月 2016

  Decommissioning is estimated to be worth US$1 billion annually in Asia alone. What can be done to take advantage of this opportunity?

• Opinion

  Breaking the cycle? Cost efficiency in upstream oil and gas

  • 10 12月 2015

  The fact is that the industry faces a structural cost problem which was easy to hide in the days of US$100 oil but less so today.

• Opinion

  Progress on opex, but will it stick?

  • 30 9月 2016

  The dramatic fall in oil prices has forced the industry to look hard at capex plans and the efficiency of operating assets and functions, with significant downward pressure on rates.

• Editorial

  Climate change: opportunities despite Trump threat to Paris Agreement

  • 20 4月 2017

  Trump’s victory cast a shadow over the conference, which commenced with a celebration of the Paris Agreement entering into force just days beforehand.

• Opinion

  Can fiscal policy help the oil industry to ‘do a Leicester’?

  • 31 5月 2016

  Governments are telling the oil companies that they need to ‘do a Leicester’. That is, maintain (or even improve on) their best performance — investment, production — but at a fraction of the cost.