Insights

Nigeria Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  Nigeria holds first largest proven reserves of natural gas and the second largest of crude oil in Africa as a result of intensive campaign of exploration on the early 2000s years led by international companies such as Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell or Total. Despite flaring the  major part […]

Mozambique Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 Mozambique appears as one of the most promising country for natural gas exploration production and could become one of the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) under the lead of companies such as Anadarko Petroleum Company (Anadarko) from USA, Eni from Italy, Mitsui E&P from Japan, China national Petroleum […]

Malaysia Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  With the fifth largest proven reserves of crude oil in the Asia-Pacific region, Malaysia, through its national oil company (NOC) Petronas , occupies a strategic position in between the thirsty East Asia and the producing countries in Middle-East. Because of this strategic position on the oil and gas map, Malaysia is […]

Kuwait Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  Despite its sixth largest proven reserves of crude oil in the world, the national oil companies (NOCs) Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and the Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) have been rather quiet these last years in term of projects and capital expenditure. After […]

Kazakhstan – Turkmenistan  Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  Kazakhstan is the second largest after Russia producer of crude oil from the former Soviet Union, it also holds the second largest reserves. More than 40% of the oil and gas production is coming from the famous Tengiz and Karagchaganak.  With the support of the international […]

Iraq Key projects and Business Highlights 2014 After the licenses rounds in 2009 and 2010 to award the development of the major oil and gas fields in Iraq all the winning companies such as BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Petronas, Gazprom, Lukoil, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina), Sinopec,TPAO or Total spent a couple of years to […]

West Africa Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  From the 54 countries of the Africa continent, 16 were producing oil in 2010. On the last decade, the producing countries have proven to generate an higher growth than the non-producing countries.  In this game, West Africa plays a leading role with key countries such as Angola, […]

China Key projects and business highlights 2014  If China growth domestic product (GDP) slowed down these last years, it remains twice higher than world average and it maintains its top position as the country with the largest energy consumption. In 2014, China is passing USA to become the world largest net importer of liquid fuels. […]

Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  On the Western Canada, the Provinces of British Columbia (B.C.) and Alberta have decided to favor all the investments to develop the unconventional gas resources in addition to the well known bitumen. In the gas race to supply thirsty East Asia countries, Canada identified the opportunity to take the […]

Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 Over the last months the national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has tried to draw conclusions from the lessons hardly learnt on last years with the consequences to delay projects and see the oil and gas production flattening despite the most massive capital expenditure invested in the world. […]