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  • America’s missing barrels

    It’s a mystery worthy of a detective novel: as US consumption patterns have changed, an estimated 4 million barrels a day of the country’s oil demand has simply vanished. Shaun Polczer investigates

  • Bolivia’s gas conundrum

    On May Day, it will be six years since President Evo Morales nationalised Bolivia’s gas sector. The anniversary offers Morales the opportunity to hail the success of his strategy in boosting production, but has it also sown the seeds of the sector’s long-term decline? Justin Jacobs reports.


  • Waiting on the Orinoco’s flows

    Venezuela is sitting on one of the energy sector’s biggest prizes – the heavy crude fields of the Orinoco Belt. But more than six years after the country first unveiled plans to develop the resource, which are vital to the country’s economy and needed by a thirsty global market, progress looks as far away as ever. Justin Jacobs reports


  • Taking on Tehran

    Are sanctions really the way the way to stop Iran? Derek Brower reports

  • Iraq's devils lie in the details

    Iraqi oil production is rising, offering hope to the global market. But until the country resolves its political and logistical problems that optimism may prove misplaced, writes Derek Brower

  • 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

  • Malaysia’s upstream revitalised

    A new approach to addressing Malaysia’s declining oil production looks set to bear fruit and Petronas is leading the way with massive upstream spending, Damon Evans reports from Kuala Lumpur

  • A new reality for Gazprom

    Hurting customers and low gas demand, mean Gazprom must accept changes to its contract terms

  • Saudi Arabia’s juggling act

    The kingdom is poised to play a key role in shaping this year’s oil market, but it must maintain a delicate balance between global and domestic demands. James Gavin reports

  • Sudan’s oil war intensifies

    South Sudan is again locked in conflict with its former rulers in Khartoum. This time, oil is the weapon of choice for both, writes Anthea Pitt

  • Door creaks open on Myanmar’s gas

    Tentative steps towards democracy may herald the end of economic sanctions and an upstream beginning for Myanmar. But Asia’s NOCs still hold the strongest hand, writes Oliver Nevans

  • 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*

  • The Hormuz red herring

    Talk of conflict in the Strait of Hormuz misses the real threat to the global oil market, says Derek Brower

  • How UK oil and gas policy was made

    The volatile history of UK offshore oil and gas policy provides a number of lessons for emerging producers, Martin Quinlan writes

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