Special reports

Jack Allardyce and Ashley Kelty, oil and gas research analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe give their thoughts on the impact of rising US production.

Penspen, a provider of engineering, asset integrity and project management services to the energy industry, has recently opened a new office in Bogota, Colombia. This follows the award of a two-year contract with CENIT, a subsidiary of ECOPETROL.

Australia will account for all floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) planned for deployment in Oceania during 2019–2025, according to GlobalData.

Aberdeen-based energy services firm, Ardyne Technologies, is set to enter a new phase of growth after receiving a major funding package from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed two new strategic equity partnerships with Eni and OMV covering both ADNOC Refining and a new trading joint venture, which will be jointly established by the three partners.

Jon Clark, EMEIA Leader for Oil & Gas Transaction Advisory Services at EY, comments on the recently published report by the National Audit Office identifying UK taxpayers’ potential exposure to £24 billion of North Sea decommissioning costs.

Jim Stuart, Lloyd’s Register, examines how technology will help asset owners and operators in the energy and marine industries face current and future challenges.

Wood has won a prestigious award for its pioneering role in exporting engineering expertise to China. The company was named Scottish Exporter to China of the Year at the China-Scotland Business Awards 2019.

CNOOC Ltd announced its strategic plan for 2019, setting a bullish tone for the rest of the Chinese national oil companies to follow. Wood Mackenzie's senior analyst Maxim Petrov shares his views.

In a major shift, the United States is set to produce more oil and liquids than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined by 2025.

Clock Spring and NRI are manufacturers of composite materials, insertion valves, and gaskets used in the transmission pipeline, refinery and petrochemical, water, utility, and civil infrastructure industries.

The 85 upstream projects up for Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) in 2019 include 75 greenfield developments, with approximately 42 billion boe of resources and 10 expansion phases.

The paper, ‘Optimised Asset Integrity Management through Disruptive Innovation’, was presented at the IADC (International Association of Drilling Contractors) conference in Malaysia this week.

This comes after the results from the Republic of Congo’s first licensing round, with the award of blocks to Kosmos Energy and Perenco, and the provisional attribution of a block to Total.

Stress Engineering Services, Inc., (SES) a leader in consulting engineering services, has achieved an American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Recognized Specialist certification for its condition based monitoring (CBM) services.