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• Big Changes in Store for Statoil

  Published 20 September 2013 | viewed 3,685 times

  Bottom Line: Big changes are in store for Norway’s state-run oil giant, Statoil: After winning parliamentary elections last week, Norway’s new Conservative-led government may move…

• Could this be the Trade of the Decade?

  Published 13 September 2013 | viewed 4,371 times

  This could be the most important column I write all year – and I wanted to write it when the ‘free view’ period was done…

• The World’s Best-Positioned Junior Coal Play?

  Published 13 September 2013 | viewed 6,573 times

  I’ve said previously that India is going to be the biggest story no one’s heard yet in thermal coal. Last week came some of the…

• Final Years for Lukashenka?

  Published 13 September 2013 | viewed 3,194 times

  Bottom Line: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenka may not make it past 2015 presidential elections because he’s chosen to take on Russian oligarchs and Russia will…

• Giant Kashagan Finally Starts Production, Watch the Transport

  Published 13 September 2013 | viewed 4,143 times

  Bottom Line: Thirteen years and $50 billion later, Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil reservoir started pumping on 11 September—but follow the money for the transport, which…

• Kurdistan: Turkish Power Brokers String Along UAE Producers

  Published 13 September 2013 | viewed 5,801 times

  Bottom Line: As Taqa (Abu Dhabi National Energy) seeks approval to pump 30,000 barrels per day from its field in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurds drag…

• Energy’s Biggest Names Converge in a Tired, Old Place

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 4,701 times

  Big things are happening in the Outer Continental Shelf—the shallow-water portion of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Two critical—but under-appreciated—developments have just happened here. One that…

• Mali: Straight out of Conflict into Exploration

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 4,711 times

  Mali can barely be called “post-conflict”—despite the rhetoric following the conclusion of 11 August runoff elections—yet oil exploration deals are already being cut in the…

• Egypt Addresses Debt to Foreign Oil Companies

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 5,833 times

  Bottom Line: Desperate for foreign oil companies to continue investing, Egypt is now trying to restructure $5.4 billion in debt it owes to them before…

• Lebanon’s Economy Faces Collapse

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 13,933 times

  Bottom Line: Lebanon’s economy faces collapse, and foreign bidders on potentially lucrative offshore oil and blocks are about to be disappointed as the conflict in…

• Keep Watch over Oil and Gas Assets on the Tumultuous Tunisian Border

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 3,748 times

  Bottom Line: While the Tunisian military picks up momentum in the fight against terrorist forces in the Mount Chaambi border region with Algeria, and the…

• Ghana’s Supreme Court Upholds President Mahama

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 5,235 times

  Bottom Line: Ghana investors breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court upholds the December 2012 presidential election results and the verdict passes smoothly,…

• One of the Biggest Stories the Energy World’s Never Heard About

  Published 05 September 2013 | viewed 5,331 times

  The next big thing for the junior E&P sector isn’t going to be shale—it’s going to be underwater unconventional drilling.Big things are happening in the…

• Resolving Jordan’s Energy Dilemma

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 4,421 times

  Energy is Jordan’s eternal bogeyman; Syria is its immediate threat to stability. Together, they make for a great deal of royal discomfort. The list of…

• Elections in Norway Decisive for Oil Drillers

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 4,702 times

  Bottom Line: Norway’s September elections will likely end the battle over oil drilling off the Lofoten islands and pave the way most notably for Statoil…

• Saudi Prince Bandar Schemes in Syria

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 7,944 times

  Bottom Line: Following what happens next in Syria means following the machinations of Saudi Prince Bandar. Analysis: Saudi Prince Bandar, the man tasked with handling…

• Saudi Prince Bandar in Egypt

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 6,568 times

  Bottom Line: While Bandar may not have gotten everything he wanted in Syria—yet—in Egypt he has, so far.  Analysis: In July, the US ordered a…

• Iranian Gas for Ukraine?

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 5,855 times

  Bottom Line: Iran has plenty of gas and is now looking to Ukraine (via Iraq and Moldova) for a new market. Analysis: Iranian officials have…

• Sweetening the Deal for Foreign Investors in Mexico

  Published 23 August 2013 | viewed 5,716 times

  Bottom Line: As Mexico proceeds towards oil and gas liberalization and the modernization of state-run Pemex, it’s taking steps to lure in private companies by…

• SOCAR Eyes Big League

  Published 23 August 2013 | viewed 5,937 times

  Bottom Line: An emerging joint venture between Russia’s Rosneft and Azerbaijan’s state-run SOCAR poises the Azeri company to enter an even bigger league. Analysis: In…