The recent murderous attack on a foreign football team has allowed the Cabindan separatist movement to take the world stage – and it raises security concerns for about a quarter of Angola's oil production Read more...
Natural gas, and shale gas in particular, can solve North America's energy supply dilemma. EnCana boss Randy Eresman talks to Petroleum Economist Read more...
Hugo Chavez has accepted that he needs to be pragmatic and bring in foreign oil companies' expertise and capital to develop Venezuela's Orinoco heavy-oil belt Read more...
Petrobras continues to defy gravity by maintaining its large investment programme, but must source large numbers of skilled workers to advance its expansion plans Read more...
The recession has hit the US biofuels industry, but government initiatives and rising oil prices are supporting development of next-generation cellulosic fuels Read more...
Opec: give us certainty to invest Oil prices are in the range Opec wants. But uncertainty about the demand outlook remains a worry. Secretary-general, Abdalla El-Badri, talks to Petroleum Economist...read more
Pemex: running to stand still There are signs of change at Pemex, but it remains heavily indebted and doubts over its claim to have stabilised oil production have not gone away...read more
Angola's oil development pipeline stalls While 24 large deep-water fields have been brought on stream off Angola and Cabinda since 1996, no new developments have been launched for 19 months...read more
Apache takes on the Kitimat LNG challenge Apache's acquisition of a majority stake in the proposed Kitimat LNG export terminal makes its chance of proceeding more likely, but it will probably not presage a spate of North American export projects ...read more
Oil tanker rates rebound As the recession eases and oil demand rises, day rates in the oil-tanker market have rebounded. But the sector's susceptibility to volatility should not be underestimated...read more
Clean-tech: let battle commence The struggle for leadership in clean-energy technology pitches the ingenuity and know-how of Silicon Valley against the industrial might of China...read more
In a new book, journalist Peter Maass takes a voyage into the troubled regions of the world and finds oil corrupting almost everything it touches...read more
