Testing times for refining margins
With demand for transport fuels set to weaken seasonally as the northern summer ends, refining margins are forecast to come under renewed pressure...read more

Global refinery construction survey
The volume of new refining capacity under construction or reasonably firmly planned worldwide represents an increase of 10% on existing capacity...read more

US Congress looks at spill-liability limits
US legislators are concerned that if another catastrophic oil spill occurs, the perpetrator might not be willing, or able, to pay for the clean up...read more

US cap and trade: delayed, but not dead
Without federal direction on climate change, the US energy industry remains in legislative limbo...read more

Who's who in the US congressional climate-change battle
The US' debate over GHG emissions has become as heated as the effect of those emissions on the earth's air and oceans...read more

Quebec eyes a seat on the shale-gas wagon
Canada's Utica shale has great potential, but there's work to be done before it can be realised...read more

Indonesia gears up for CBM production
With an eye on a growing domestic gas market and the possibility of exports, investors are sizing up Indonesia's large untapped coal-bed methane reserves...read more

Cenovus open to Chinese investment
Cenovus may accelerate oil-sands development through a series of partnerships – possibly with Chinese investors. Chief executive Brian Ferguson talks to PE...read more

Enbridge oil leak seeps into debate about Canada's exports to the US
An oil spill on an Enbridge pipeline in Michigan has undermined notions that Canadian oil imports provide a safer alternative to domestic US drilling...read more

Ecuador clashes with foreign oil, again
Ecuador's uneasy relationship with foreign oil firms has again slipped towards threats and recriminations...read more

E.On adjusts to difficult times
E.On is weathering the economic storm, but uncertain German nuclear policy and high gas-procurement costs remain a threat to its bottom line...read more

Abu Dhabi makes big low-carbon claims
Renewable energy can deliver 7% of Abu Dhabi's electricity by 2020, the emirate claims. If the plan works, it could bring a shift in power generation across the region...read more

Russia has trumped Nabucco for Central Asian gas
Last year Russia improved the gas-pricing scheme under which it buys Central Asian gas. It's a move that now seems to have rung the death knell for the Nabucco pipeline...read more

Russia's petroleum-taxation dilemma
The petroleum fiscal regime in Russia is ineffective and confusing for investors. Could an economic-rent tax cut the Gordian knot?...read more

Nick Grealy, shale-gas missionary
Shale gas has transformed the US energy industry. Nick Grealy thinks it is the golden ticket for the rest of the world, too...read more

GDF Suez bullish on European gas demand
European gas demand will begin growing steadily again in 2012-14, says GDF Suez, but the market will tighten as supplies plateau, or drop...read more

United States: Worried, big oil fights back
The API has launched a campaign to mobilise Americans against anti-oil-industry legislation it says would hinder economic growth, cost jobs and erode energy security...read more

Iran feels the pressure of sanctions and self-inflicted problems
More sanctions make life harder for Iran. But its own disastrous economic management might have worse consequences...read more