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Analysis

  • A two-track energy business

    There’s a growing divide between big firms and smaller players in the oil and gas sector, and nowhere is that gap more evident than in access to finance, writes NJ Watson

  • US backlash against LNG exports

    Despite increased shale-gas production and slumping prices, the business and environmental opposition against liquefaction plants grows stronger and louder, writes Kwok W Wan

  • REPORT CARD: Lukoil's ambitious plans face execution risk

    Russia’s second-largest oil producer has high hopes for its future growth, but there are difficulties ahead, writes NJ Watson

  • Prevention is better than cure

    Two years on from the Macondo, safety technology is taking centre stage for deep-water operators. Justin Jacobs reports.

  • The paradox of plenty

    The oil curse is spreading to new petroleum producers. Derek Brower reviews a new book which explains why oil's grip remains so powerful and what can be done about it


  • Shippers chart course with LNG

    Rapid uptake of LNG-powered vessels presents multi-billion dollar opportunity for gas producers

  • Arctic oil and gas decision looms

    Under the auspices of the UN, countries laying claim to Arctic territory hope legal international borders can be settled, opening the way for exploration, writes Shaun Polczer

  • Pushing upstream boundaries in the Arctic

    The Arctic’s potential has long been a lure for explorers. But while some sectors of the region have become proved petroleum provinces other plays are proving harder to tap. Anthea Pitt reports.

  • Sowing the seeds of demand destruction

    With Brent trading at an 18-month high, the oil market’s bulls appear to have good reasons to celebrate. But the long-term outlook is far more troubling. A steep correction is on the cards, writes Derek Brower

  • Durban: now for the hard part

    Global leaders agreed – yet again – that reaching a new climate deal is crucial to fight global warming. But will there be action to give substance to the talk? Ian Lewis reports

  • Tanker firms batten down the hatches

    A year of survival and consolidation lies ahead, with over-capacity hanging over the oil-shipping industry, writes Ian Lewis

  • Arctic investment competition heats up

    Sustained high oil prices and strategic fiscal terms and are creating viable upstream openings in the Arctic. Russia is leading the way, write Pedro van Meurs, Barry Rodgers and Jerry Kepes*

  • Hormuz: the world's LNG choke point

    How, if at all, asks Kwok W Wan, would shutting the Strait of Hormuz affect European gas and Asian LNG prices?

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