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Wasted reputations
United States
US cap and trade: delayed, but not dead
Without federal direction on climate change, the US energy industry remains in legislative limbo, writes Anne Feltus
Who's who in the congressional climate-change battle
US Congress looks at spill-liability limits
Refining survey
Refining: short-term improvement, long-term problems
Demand changes say the world needs fewer oil refineries, in different locations and making a different slate of products, Martin Quinlan writes
Global refinery construction survey
Testing times for refining margins
PE Unconventional
Quebec eyes a seat on the shale-gas wagon
Canada's Utica shale has great potential, but there's work to be done before it can be realised, writes Derek Brower
China's unconventional production is set to skyrocket
Indonesia gears up for CBM production
With an eye on a growing domestic gas market and the possibility of exports, investors are sizing up Indonesia's large untapped coal-bed methane reserves, writes Helen Robertson
Reliance Marcellus deal a harbinger of more to come
Cenovus open to Chinese investment
Cenovus's extensive oil-sands resources mean "decades of double-digit growth". And the firm may accelerate development through a series of partnerships – possibly with Chinese investors. Chief executive Brian Ferguson talks to Tom Nicholls
Cenovus: oil sands neither high cost nor high carbon
Enbridge oil leak seeps into debate about Canada's exports to the US
An oil spill on an Enbridge pipeline in Michigan has undermined notions that Canadian oil imports provide a safer alternative to domestic US drilling, writes Derek Brower
Latin America
Ecuador clashes with foreign oil, again
Ecuador's uneasy relationship with foreign oil firms has again slipped towards threats and recriminations, complicating the smallest Opec nation's production outlook, writes Robert Olson
The Report Card
E.On adjusts to difficult times
E.On is weathering the economic storm, but uncertain German nuclear policy and high gas-procurement costs remain a threat to its bottom line, reports NJ Watson
Middle East
Abu Dhabi makes big low-carbon claims
Renewable energy can deliver 7% of Abu Dhabi's electricity by 2020, the emirate claims. If the plan works, it could bring a shift in power generation across the region. Miles Lang reports
Opinion
Russia has trumped Nabucco for Central Asian gas
Last year Russia improved the gas-pricing scheme under which it buys Central Asian gas. It's a move that now seems to have rung the death knell for the Nabucco pipeline, says Andrey Konoplyanik*
Russia's petroleum-taxation dilemma
The petroleum fiscal regime in Russia is ineffective and confusing for investors. Could an economic-rent tax cut the Gordian knot, asks Zaur Muslumov, senior consultant, Palantir Solutions*
Obituary
Matthew Simmons, peak-oil guru
Deepwater Horizon
Static kill successfully halts Macondo spill
Exploration and production
Angola: Total launches Clov development
Bulgaria: Discoveries boost energy security
Colombia's Ecopetrol thinks big
Canada's deep, arctic waters attract big oil
Corporate
North American unconventionals dominate upstream M&A
Kazakhstan: Karachaganak group will sell stake to state
BP to sell Colombian business
Downstream
Lithuania: Poland considers selling refinery
Alternative energy
United Kingdom: Grand wind-power plans far from assured
UK nuclear needs market reform
US: So much for the future of FutureGen
Nick Grealy, shale-gas missionary
Shale gas has transformed the US energy industry. Nick Grealy thinks it is the golden ticket for the rest of the world, too. He explains why to Helen Robertson
World oil and gas licensing rounds map
Unconventional oil and gas
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and CIS
Africa
North America
Latin America
Middle East
Asia and Australasia
Crude prices slide
Oil production up on hot summer, US baseline and Chinese supply
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