Tagged With James Gavin
12 April 2024
Iran has announced multibillion dollar spending programmes aimed at domestic companies, inspired by recent export success
7 March 2024
The Middle East’s powerful clutch of national oil companies are turning their attentions outwards, with new acquisitions taking them into previously uncharted territory
26 January 2024
Optimism about Kurdish production increases contrasts with a messy security situation that could obstruct oil and gas progress
16 July 2021
The company’s expansion will not end with its recent acquisition of Repsol assets in Southeast Asia, says managing director Kenneth Pereira
13 May 2021
Oil companies active in the country face difficult choices as pressure to disengage intensifies
30 March 2021
Having settled a 30-year field demarcation dispute with Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan is cheerleading for a second phase of the Southern Gas Corridor
25 March 2021
The NOC’s delisting from the NYSE may only serve to embolden its South China Sea drilling despite lingering controversy surrounding projects in the region
19 January 2021
Surging Covid cases are not the only challenges facing Kazakhstan’s largest oil and gas developments
27 September 2020
New investment in gas-to-chemicals capacity could add value to an economy hobbled by declining Chinese import appetite
18 August 2020
China is intensifying its pressure on Hanoi to halt IOCs’ offshore drilling activities. Some have already withdrawn and others may follow
22 May 2020
Foreign companies tapping large fields in and around the Caspian Sea face tricky decisions on production cuts
17 April 2020
Socar and Equinor’s 440mn bl discovery in the Caspian could mitigate declines at Azerbaijan’s major fields
13 March 2020
China has not lost its interest in oil and gas assets around the South China Sea
21 January 2020
Chevron is facing a significant uptick in spending at Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oilfield, challenging its renewed commitment to capital discipline
1 November 2019
Yashar Latifov, vice president for field development at Azerbaijan’s Socar, outlines the firm’s ambitious upstream development plans
9 July 2019
An executive order has reduced the constraints on Philippines’ state oil company working
with third parties on oil and gas deals
27 June 2019
Recent Chinese NOC activity in the South China Sea underscores a growing interest in the disputed region, as Beijing seeks to bring regional states around to its way of thinking
30 May 2019
Gas has made most of the recent running, but major producers like Azerbaijan are focusing on boosting crude oil production too
8 March 2019
Recent oil sales to Asia make for troubling reading for Iran's embattled government
19 February 2019
Azerbaijan may find it much tougher to find investment after the departure of Chevron and ExxonMobil
30 November 2018
Rony Halman, chairman of Israel Opportunity Energy Resources, explains why the region could be on the verge of something big—but some points of contention remain
5 November 2018
With oil exports in freefall, the country is hoping that a new EU-backed plan to help companies continue trading will work. But optimism is low
8 October 2018
Market forces, Trump's tweets and the latest Opec+ agreement have helped shape global supply in recent months
20 September 2018
If all goes to plan, by the end of this year India should have established a gas trading hub
20 September 2018
Petronas’s financial success makes it a target for a government desperate for new revenue streams
19 September 2018
The recent discovery of offshore shale oil and gas deposits could be a welcome energy boost for Bahrain—or remain tantalisingly beyond reach
20 July 2018
Beijing's determination to exert its influence in the South China Sea is causing problems for oil companies active in the region
12 July 2018
Sanctions-hit Iran and its neighbours are seeking to resolve boundary uncertainties to unlock further oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Sea
8 August 2017
Reducing Egypt's debts to foreign oil companies is part of petroleum minister Molla's strategy to attract further energy investment
12 July 2017
Career diplomat Sir Jeremy Greenstock, now chairman of London-based Gatehouse Advisory Partners and of Lambert Energy Advisory, is optimistic about Iraq's future
10 May 2017
A combination of cuts to upstream capital spending and steepening well decline rates will threaten global supply security, industry leaders warn
9 May 2017
Asia will remain the driving force behind global energy demand growth, and the kingdom is poised to meet the region's needs
19 April 2017
Former Russian energy minister Igor Yusufov says the new US administration will be a boon for hydrocarbons cooperation
3 April 2017
It is home to the world's biggest exporter—and also some of its fastest-growing consumers. Yet intra-regional trade remains thin
