News and Analysis

Analysis

• Landmark upstream deal for GOM deep waters

  
  
• Total keen on Kurdistan – but not yet

  
  
• Development steps up in Norway’s Utsira High

  
  
• UK North Sea gas may buck decline trend

  
  
• Luva to open up Norwegian Sea gas

  
  
• Explorers offered pick of UK offshore blocks

  
  
• Oil-price stays firm despite bearish US data

  
  
• Halliburton profits from unconventional surge

  
  
• Chesapeake's gas-spending U-turn

  
  
• Apache splashes cash for Cordillera

  
  
• Deep water Nova Scotia return for Shell

  
  
• Repsol boosts Russian upstream holding

  
  
• Okhotsk rig disaster claims 17

  
  
• Noble aims deeper in Leviathan

  
  
• Aramco, China seal Red Sea refinery deal

  
  
• Iran will go it alone at Dorra/Arash

  
  
• Iraq delays upstream licensing round

  
  
• Perla gas on for Repsol and Eni

  
  
• Venezuela goes it alone for arbitration

  
  
• US court blocks Chevron Ecuador appeal

  
  
• Repsol Cuba drilling cleared by US

  
  
• Petrobras's Gabrielli to step down

  
  
• OGX hits oil; another Petrobras pre-salt success

  
  
• Bonga oil back on stream

  
  
• Another big Mozambique gas find

  
  
• Loan spurs Rialto Ivory Coast drilling

  
  
• Another Ghana oil strike for Tullow

  
  
• Total set for Congo Lake Albert exploration

  
  
• First Cameroon gas for Victoria

  
  
• Turkmenistan takes new route for oil exports

  
  
• Kashagan budget revised, again

  
  
• Socar sets sights abroad, as output dips

  
  
• RWE delivers huge blow to Nabucco

  
  
• Shell exits Philippines JV

  
  
• Inpex, JX sign up for Malaysia offshore

  
  
• Petronas seeks downstream support

  
  
• China seals big downstream deals

  
  
• Shell secures new Prelude reserves

  
  
• Carnarvon find firms Chevron LNG feed

  
  
• Shell success in UK licensing

  
  
• European oil refiner under pressure

  
  
• Havis: a big Barents find for Statoil

  
  
• A disappointment at Avaldsnes-Aldous

  
  
• Ireland’s Dragon set to breathe

  
  
• Oil price falls as supply fears evaporate

  
  
• Nigeria’s energy unions cry wolf

  
  
• Nigeria unions turn off taps in fuel subsidies row

  
  
• LNG market set for Thai surprise