Natural Gas and LNG

  • Investors flock to Brazil

    A successful licensing round has given Brazil’s oil industry a much-needed boost of confidence and sets the stage for a new oil rush, writes Justin Jacobs


  • If the price is right...

    Despite its potential, major companies have largely shied away from India’s upstream sector. But they could be tempted if the government implements pricing reform. Damon Evans reports


  • The new world order

    Half a century in the making, the LNG business is at last about to go global


  • Asia will dominate the global LNG market

    Post-Fukushima Japan, China and a number of other fast-growing Asian countries will need much more frozen gas in the coming decades


  • Shale-gas LNG offers price evolution, not revolution

    Supplies from the US and East Africa will have less of an impact on Asian import costs than thought


  • Australia’s cost problem

    To meet ambitious export goals, the country must tackle cost inflation. Floating LNG may help


  • Pipeline politics

    The formal launch of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project has been billed as part of the solution to Pakistan’s deepening energy crisis. Its success, however, is not just a question of diplomacy, as Damon Evans discovers


  • The final countdown

    This year, the partners in the Shah Deniz field must make two important decisions: a final investment decision for the Caspian gasfield's second-phase development and a pipeline to carry production to Europe. NJ Watson looks at the options


  • Terminal illnesses in the Baltics


  • Clock ticking on China-Russia gas talks

    Russia still hopes to strike a gas supply deal with China – vital if the country’s strategic shift from Europe to Asia is to succeed. But, as Justin Jacobs argues, Russia needs to act quickly or miss out on the opportunity


  • Second Nord Stream on-stream – and more?

    Gazprom and partners started up the second line of their dual Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe in early-October – and edged forward with plans for third and fourth Nord Stream pipelines, Martin Quinlan writes


  • East Africa’s big prizes carry big challenges

    Vast gas discoveries off Mozambique and Tanzania are set to turn an energy-deficient region into one of the world’s largest sources of liquefied natural gas – but the challenges of commercialisation are as large as the prizes, Martin Quinlan writes


Latest issue: May 2013

Toeing the party line

When a stagnant economy and a moribund energy sector, Venezuela needs pragmatism rather than politics. But Maduro's elevation to the presidency leaves little room for hope


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