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The global glut of LNG
Unconventional gas
The next wave of M&A activity: North American shale gas
The shale-gas revolution that started with the drillers is entering the boardrooms. Expect the North American natural gas scene to look very different in coming years, writes Derek Brower
Energy finance
Oil and gas M&A set for revival
With oil and gas companies' balance sheets in better shape and some prime assets back on the market, corporate activity is set to accelerate, writes James Gavin
Liquefied natural gas
Algeria's LNG industry at a crossroads
Exports of Algerian LNG are falling and new projects are delayed; there is trouble at the top of Sonatrach; and IOCs have snubbed recent licensing rounds, writes Conal Walsh
More LNG from Equatorial Guinea, but production start-up uncertain
Marathon Oil says the world LNG market will not support Equatorial Guinea's planned second train until 2016-17, but the government wants an earlier start-up – and has pressure to apply, Martin Quinlan writes
Upstream technology
Tertiary oil-recovery techniques: reviving dying US fields
Enhanced oil-recovery techniques can boost production from ageing oilfields by up to 60%. Small wonder that US oil companies are turning to tertiary-recovery methods to slow, or reverse output declines, writes Anne Feltus
Pipelines
Politics reek havoc with Iran's gas-pipeline plans
Iran has grand plans to export gas by pipeline to Europe, South Asia and Arab Gulf states, but local, regional and international politics will hinder development, writes Digby Lidstone
Speculative oil pipelines offer alternative to Strait of Hormuz choke point
Concerns about the vulnerability of the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz ebb and flow depending on the international mood over Iran, writes Digby Lidstone
Opinion
Oil industry's increasing focus on CSR
Are oil companies acting responsibly yet? Professor Jedrzej George Frynas from Middlesex University Business School writes
Climate change
Copenhagen's letter of intent may yet spur global climate action
Governments still have opportunities to rescue 2009's disappointing UN climate-change meeting in Copenhagen, writes Ian Lewis
The rise of climate-change scepticism
Forget the failure of the Copenhagen summit. The real threat to the war on climate change could be the gathering swell of scepticism of the whole endeavour, writes Derek Brower
Finding gives US EPA power to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions
The US government has authorised itself to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, with potentially costly consequences for the oil and power sectors, writes Anne Feltus
The Report Card
Anadarko's award-winning year
With valuable exploration acreage in the US and overseas, and oil and gas production on the rise, Anadarko is one of 2010's prime acquisition targets, writes NJ Watson
Geopolitics
Iranian cross-border oil incursion heightens tensions with Iraq
Exploration and production
Nigeria: Shell has had enough
UK oil and gas drilling activity plummets
Canada: Oil-sands investment revival
Egypt to spend $3bn on E&P this year
Kuwait plans new 20-year upstream drive
Kazakhstan seeks a share of Karachaganak
Alternative energy
UK awards big offshore wind-power concessions
India sets new biofuel target
Natural gas
Australia: Woodside's Browse and Sunrise LNG setbacks
China embraces shale-gas partners
UK: South Hook LNG covers its options
The oil world and its villains
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, writes Derek Brower
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and CIS
Africa
North America
Latin America
Middle East
Asia and Australasia
World oil and gas licensing rounds
Crude oil price correction may have further to go
Global oil production continues its steady climb
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