17 April 2019 Reed Olmstead Lysle Brinker Lauren Droege Imre Kugler Chris DeLucia
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16 April 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The Permian and Appalachia, respectively, are widely recognized as the two lowest-cost US onshore oil and gas basins. One might expect similarities...
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10 April 2019 Sergey Myakishev
An overview of the 2018 LNG market trends.
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08 April 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Southeast Asia coal-fired power expected to decelerate long-term
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03 April 2019
The year 2018 proved to be a difficult year for South Africa’s power sector, with the state-owned utility, Eskom, facing steep increases in debt...
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01 April 2019
The low demand and ample supply should keep utilization rates in the low 60% range in the near future.
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29 March 2019 James Isaacs Clare Barker-White, Ph.D.
A short geological overview of the Mumbai Basin and a look at its future potential to support India's ongoing plans to reduce its reliance on...
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28 March 2019 Raoul LeBlanc
Will the Permian continue its meteoric ascent and dominate global markets?
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27 March 2019 Howard Ewan
2018 proved a historic year for the oil and gas industry in New Zealand.
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26 March 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
US proppant market fundamentals have remained stable with some unexpected volatility and depression, yet market balance and stability are improving....
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20 March 2019 Adriana Hernandez
How can gas lifted wells be evaluated in an easy and quickly manner?
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19 March 2019 Jenny Caddick
Petroleum Development Oman is well known for its advancements in Enhanced Oil Recovery technology and it has successfully implemented pilots...
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11 March 2019 Spencer Welch
Top 3 revelations from the multi-client study on marine bunker fuel in a low sulfur, low carbon world
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04 March 2019 Kunfeng Zhu
There is a wide range of views regarding the world energy outlook, with several major points of uncertainty, including growth in renewables and...
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01 March 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Technology’s impact on improving energy efficiency includes materials and resource,
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27 February 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
On 19 February 2019, Repsol announced a gas discovery in the Sakakemang production sharing contract, located within the South Sumatra Basin...
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26 February 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Structural oil pricing volatility in the age of shale and implications for US production and detailed assessment of the global fundamentals and...
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25 February 2019 Yelena Shliomenzon Jim Thomas, Ph.D.
Legislation revisions and updates to the petroleum industry adopt stricter requirements and making regulatory compliance a moving target.
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22 February 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Upstream M&A activity has seemed to focus on the Permian Basin over the past 18 months as operators sought entry and/or consolidation opportunities...
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21 February 2019 Bill Rawlusyk
Several new events are set to have some implications on propane, butane, and condensate in 201
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20 February 2019 Basel Asmar, Ph.D.
The Upstream Innovation Index dropped by 15.7% from 2014 to 2018 and forecasts on cost reductions because of innovation could translate to an...
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20 February 2019 Rob Smith
Find out key questions that will steer downstream petroleum market analysis in 2019
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18 February 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The world is entering 2019 navigating a host of financial, economic and political fault lines, the deepening of any of which could severely impact...
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Operators cautious spending plans will slow down activity in North America the first quarter of 2019
14 February 2019 Paola Perez Pena
Operators cautious spending plans will slow down activity in North America the first quarter of 2019.
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12 February 2019 Sergey Myakishev
The controversy surrounding last year’s re-election of Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela came to a head in recent weeks, with continued...
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11 February 2019 Joo Yeow Lee
On 29 January 2019, the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade issued the draft policy to extend the solar feed-in-tariff eligibility until 30...
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08 February 2019 Camilo Rodriguez
Geoscientists are expected to provide an interpretation and reliable prediction to inform confident decision making. The workflow that leads...
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07 February 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In the last installment of our three-part series on conventional opportunities in an unconventional world, Mark Savery, Executive Director Upstream...
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05 February 2019 Ankita Chauhan
The offshore wind announcements in India have been gathering pace in recent months. The most pertinent of these announcements was in June 2018...
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01 February 2019 Amanda Nelson
The deadly pipeline explosion in the Hidalgo state town of Tlahuelilpan has drawn attention to the chronic fuel shortages faced by consumers...
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30 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In part two a three-part series on conventional opportunities in an unconventional world, Mark Savery, Executive Director Upstream Product Management...
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29 January 2019 Stanislas Drochon Giacomo Boati
Sub-Saharan Africa has generated intense interest since the turn of the millennium as investors and governments increasingly focus on the region’s...
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29 January 2019 Ding Li Ang
A summary of all the things you need to know that happened in the offshore rig market in 2018.
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25 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Oil and gas operators showed renewed confidence in 2018 as prices rose through September. But, did plunging oil prices in Q4 derail investment...
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22 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In this first of a three-part series on conventional opportunities in an unconventional world, Mark Savery, Executive Director Upstream Product...
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15 January 2019 Carlos Pascual
Four dynamics have changed in our global politics.
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10 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Russ Fontaine, Principal Researcher for North America Unconventionals shares the current state of the Powder River Basin and how operators are...
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09 January 2019 David Vaucher
IHS Markit’s Onshore Services & Materials team recently released its PumpingIQ report for the fourth quarter of 2018. The report estimates 201...
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08 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
IHS Markit experts discuss the development and application of new technology in the energy industry.
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07 January 2019 Spencer Welch
In just 12 months, the global bunker fuel specific reduces from maximum 3.5% sulfur to maximum of 0.5% and neither the refining nor shipping...
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04 January 2019 David Vaucher
Exploring the relationship between proppant supply and sand sourcing strategy.
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02 January 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The industry was marked the US claiming the title of world’s top oil producer, in part to the boom we continue to see in the Permian. But, Q4...
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27 December 2018 Yanyu He, Ph.D. Debnil Chowdhury
US NGL supply is expected to experience significant growth, how does Asia plan to absorb this increase in production?
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21 December 2018 Dr. Russell Roundtree
Artificial Intelligence (AI) within oil and gas.
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20 December 2018 Keefer Douglas
Since exporting its first waterborne ethane cargo in 2016, the United States has seen steady growth in China.
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18 December 2018 Laura Aristizabal Sanchez David Vaucher
IHS Markit’s Onshore Services & Materials team recently released our WaterIQ report for the second half of 2018.
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17 December 2018 Sarah Haggas
Sarah Haggas, Regional Director, gives an update on the Middle East E&P market.
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30 November 2018 Kareemah Mohamed
Description: The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most explored deepwater basins in the world that sees reduced investment and activity. Deepwater...
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28 November 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Upstream spending in the Middle East looks like it will continue to grow in the coming years.
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Upstream oil & gas industry outlook: Innovating for performance, but competition for capital remains
19 November 2018 Paul Markwell
What a difference a year makes; since the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek in 2017, we have seen a 50% increase in oil price, and that's good news....
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16 November 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Beyond the initial cost and economics, one of the key challenges to deepwater success is the long time it can take to reach Final Investment...
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15 November 2018 Michael Stoppard
This is an excerpt from Michael Stoppard’s India CERAWeek presentation.
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08 November 2018 Carolyn Seto
Over the past decade, oil and gas players have increasingly pursued open innovation strategies to complement internal research and development...
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07 November 2018
The fundamental points to take note of regarding the IMO 2020 transition
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01 November 2018
Late 2018 oil-price uncertainty may delay any potential deal
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25 October 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The transition toward a lower-carbon energy world has traditional fossil-fuel based producers re-evaluating their business strategies.
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25 October 2018 Spencer Welch
Initial findings from the IHS Markit multi-client study on the impact of the IMO’s 2020 sulfur reduction plan
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18 October 2018 Matthew Piatek
Current spare capacity and planned expansions create room for local production to grow
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03 October 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Initial offshore results are in from key commercial tests offshore Namibia. What does it mean for the Southwest African Coastal Basin?
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19 September 2018 Blake Eskew
How growing US crude exports are changing global balances
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18 September 2018 Ha Nguyen
What happened in the global oil market?
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13 September 2018
The IHS Markit outlook is for robust jet fuel demand growth, especially in emerging markets.
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12 September 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The 2014–17 downcycle has taken a toll--especially on some producer governments that continue to struggle with its legacy. Many meaures taken...
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06 September 2018
By 2021, IHS Markit estimates Operations and Maintenance expenses for wind assets will cost the industry about $7.5 billion annually
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31 August 2018 Basel Asmar, Ph.D.
Development costs to rise in immediate term due to short-term cyclical factors
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27 August 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Oil and gas operators once strived for breadth, in technologies and geography. But, now compete against each other in narrower competitive bands...
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23 August 2018 Ha Nguyen
Refiners have been stung by declining Venezuelan exports, but importing countries are turning to other suppliers
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21 August 2018 Spencer Welch
Could the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s plan to reduce the sulfur content of marine bunker fuel, from 3.5% to 0.5% as of January...
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20 August 2018
Driverless technology, electric vehicles, new mobility services, and public policy are prime disruptive forces to the Energy, Chemical and Automotive...
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13 August 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Latin America still plays a major role in the global oil market despite recent infrastructure and political challenges.
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10 August 2018
Short-cycle tieback and exploration opportunities supplement existing frontier deepwater portfolio outside of the US
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08 August 2018 Anna Wuchek
Deal count remains sluggish despite increasing spot crude oil prices, as the longer-term crude oil futures curve remains in steep backwardization...
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31 July 2018
To meet the goals set out at the Paris Climate Conference, Europe will need to go beyond the decarbonisation of power: the challenge lies in...
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27 July 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Decreased drilling in 2017 yielded the lowest discovery rate since the 1950s. But there are still exploration opportunities that can lead to...
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18 July 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
How are suppliers planning for their short and long-term projects in today’s price environment?
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17 July 2018 Kevin Birn
Growth in the Canadian oil sands has made Canada the 5th largest producers of crude oil in the world and the largest source of US crude oil imports—exceeding...
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13 July 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
As optimism returns to the oil & gas industry, operators continue to invest in the North Sea. Where does the North Sea fit in the oil & gas sce...
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10 July 2018
Despite upstream mergers, acquisitions and divestitures sinking to a 20-year low in 2017, Christopher Sheehan, Director of Transaction Research...
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09 July 2018
The further expansion of crude import quotas to Chinese independent refiners and slowing of Chinese demand growth have tipped Chinese middle...
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02 July 2018 David Gates Rachel Calvert
The surprising victory by Hope’s Pact (Pakatan Harapan: PH) in Malaysia’s May 2018 general election represents a deepening trend of contested...
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29 June 2018 Raoul LeBlanc
Permian Basin operators’ ability to squeeze more production out of seemingly every well drilled, has made the Midland Wolfcamp section of the...
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29 June 2018 IHS Markit Expert
SHORT-TERM NGL MARKETS INSIGHT: Record strong propane builds
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28 June 2018
Strong US natural gas supply growth—primarily driven by Appalachia, Permian Basin, and Haynesville volumes—will keep pace with end-use demand...
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15 June 2018 Isabella Ni
Strong policy support and rapid cost decline led to phenomenal distributed solar photovoltaic (DPV) capacity additions in China.
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14 June 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Alaska’s North Slope receives little attention give the focus on North America unconventionals.
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13 June 2018 Jim Burkhard
What happens in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico reverberates through oil markets around the world—even all the way to the region’s...
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12 June 2018 Hassan Eltorie
During the oil boom, E&Ps financed rocketing production growth and sizable cash flow deficits with cheap money during a low interest rate env...
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31 May 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The US Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) market was expecting a far smaller stock change in NGLs than was revealed in Wednesday’s Energy Information...
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31 May 2018
Malaysia concluded its 14th general elections on 10 May 2018, resulting in an end to the 61-year reign of the Barisan Nasional coalition.
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29 May 2018 Ford Tanner Carlos Bellorin
IHS Markit anticipates that Guyana's deepwater investment climate will remain regionally competitive over the next five years, despite the country’s...
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Interest in ship’s scrubbers is growing steadily, but still falling short of tipping the IMO balance
24 May 2018 Hedi Grati
Recent steady growth in ship scrubber installations supports IHS Markit’s view that more vessel owners would see a compelling economic case to...
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18 May 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
How are oil and gas companies using hedging strategies to mitigate oil price risk?
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16 May 2018
IHS Markit’s Companies and Transactions team estimates that 2018 corporate budgets for Latin American NOCs will increase by roughly 15% versus...
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11 May 2018 Amanda Nelson
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the selection of ten proposed offshore wind projects.
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CNPC and ONGC acquire strategic resources and can expect near-term payout from Abu Dhabi concessions
08 May 2018 Rajeev Lala Mariam Al-Shamma
By offering ADNOC market security, CNPC and especially Indian NOCs are signaling a clear willingness and inclination to leverage their growing...
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04 May 2018
Resource imbalance over a massive landmass and severe air pollution in populated coastal region enabled rapid development of long-distance power...
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03 May 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In our latest episode of Upstream in Perspective, we discuss trends within the mergers and acquisitions market, with Dan Pratt and Lysle Brinker...
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01 May 2018 Imre Kugler Reed Olmstead
IHS Markit’s North America Plays and Basins team recently completed its second quarter production forecasts. Here are some of the highlights....
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25 April 2018 Scott Dendy
The first Indonesian 4,200 kc GAR futures on Singapore Exchange traded on 9 April
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25 April 2018 David Vaucher
US onshore shale players have ramped up 2018–19 capital spending intentions and production targets across the board, from the smallest independents...
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19 April 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
E&Ps have reshaped their technology and innovation strategies over the past few years to better compete in a low-price environment.
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18 April 2018 Anusha de Silva
The timing and volume of Appalachian grid expansions - providing new pipeline takeaway capacity to downstream markets or expanding supply outlets...
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18 April 2018 Eleanor Budds Spencer Welch
Although electric vehicles are making headlines, oil demand is also growing strongly; at a similar rate to during the commodity supercycle and...
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17 April 2018 Michael Yu
China has expanded its coal import restrictions, with several more ports introducing heavier controls over shipments from overseas.
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16 April 2018 Morgen McGuire
Three observations based on recent drilling results of Concho Resources and RSP Permian
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11 April 2018 Jone-Lin Wang, Ph.D.
Key takeaways from CERAWeek 2018 within the power sector.
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10 April 2018 Zhi Xin Chong
An overview of the Myanmar energy market
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03 April 2018 Tim Staggs
Have you ever wondered about data transformation? What it is and how it’s done? Data transformation is the process of taking records or data...
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02 April 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Despite the craze around the Permian Basin, there are promising signs from other North American plays and basins.
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29 March 2018 Eduard Sala de Vedruna
Renewables were an integral topic throughout CERAWeek by IHS Markit, not just in discussions on power day but throughout the week.
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27 March 2018 Lauren Droege
Uinta Basin well productivity competes with other Rockies unconventional plays, though scale remains limited.
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26 March 2018 Paul Markwell
A record attendance at CERAWeek this year already provided a clue. Optimism – and a need to think longer term – was back in vogue for industry...
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26 March 2018 Wade Shafer
This week, a commissioner on the Arizona Corporation Commission (the regulatory body overseeing most electric utilities in Arizona) proposed...
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20 March 2018 Samuel Andrus
It has been 10 years since the “Shale Gale” first began to emerge from the Barnett Shale and commenced a wholesale turnaround of the U.S. natural...
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19 March 2018 Brian Ferguson
As we move through the first quarter of 2018, the upstream M&A market has changed too much so let’s take a look at the last full quarter of activity....
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16 March 2018 Shankari Srinivasan
With CERAWeek now complete, four words stand out to describe the presentation and tone of the discussion on natural gas.
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15 March 2018 Samantha Humphreys
Over the last few years Papua New Guinea has established itself as a strong player in the oil and gas industry.
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12 March 2018 Nick Trevethan
Progress in exploring the sale of Drummond’s Colombian assets has moved beyond assessing its equity options, and it is actively seeking buyers...
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09 March 2018 Marian Hookham
Glencore is facing regulatory delays over its proposed joint venture with Yancoal at the Hunter Valley Operations as Japan’s competition authority...
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09 March 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In the Global Oil Dialogue on Wednesday, HE Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of State in the United Arab Emirates, speaks with Dr. Daniel Yergin...
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09 March 2018 Michael Stoppard
The world is changing. The world of gas is changing. What’s ahead for the gas markets and what are emerging global gas business models?
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08 March 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
On the 80th anniversary of Saudi Aramco discovering oil, Dr. Daniel Yergin spoke with the CEO of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser about what lies ahead...
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08 March 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In a CERAWeek interview, Dr. Daniel Yergin speaks with Sarah Ortwein, Tim Dove, Mark Little and Lorenzo Simonelli about North American oil supply....
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07 March 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Not able to attend CERAWeek by IHS Markit this year? We'll recap the first two days for you in 30 seconds with the top Tweets from the show!
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07 March 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
At CERAWeek 2018, Dan Yergin speaks with HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General of OPEC and Fatih Birol, Executive Director of International...
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01 March 2018 Tony Reinsch
IHS Markit has identified NOC competition in domestic basins as one of its top 10 upstream issues for 2018.
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28 February 2018 Yelena Kiyanitsa Siddhartha Sen
Several years of weak commodity prices have significantly reduced offshore exploration activity in the US Gulf of Mexico.
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26 February 2018 Michael Dyer Ford Tanner
On 31 January, Mexico awarded 19 out of 29 deepwater blocks on offer across three areas – the Perdido area, the Mexican Ridges province, and...
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23 February 2018 Emilie Gubian
While US Onshore crude oil production economics have improved markedly across all major basins over the past several years, there is significant...
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21 February 2018 Nathan Amery
With data volumes growing rapidly, good data management is a significant challenge for upstream oil and gas companies.
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21 February 2018 Dylan Lougheed
The main measurement of a well’s value is its Net Present Value (NPV).
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14 February 2018 Walt Hart, Ph.D. Manish Sejwal
The Pakistan LPG market is expected to grow gradually in the coming years.
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12 February 2018 Lauren Droege
The Bone Spring play continues to compete with other headline unconventional plays across the Lower 48 in daily output, producing about 460,000...
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09 February 2018 Zhi Xin Chong
13 million metric tons by 2030. That is the forecast of LNG demand into these frontier markets – Vietnam, Philippines and Myanmar.
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08 February 2018 James Fressineau Danilo Doninelli
Country-level case studies of field redevelopment in Europe...
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05 February 2018 James Fressineau Danilo Doninelli
Continental Europe’s hydrocarbon industry is characterised by its mature onshore fields
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01 February 2018 Andrew Neff
The unconventional story in the CIS countries is quite mixed. In much of the CIS, a key ingredient to the recipe has been missing: motivation....
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25 January 2018 Marian Hookham
In 2017 India’s steel sector achieved a long-anticipated new record, producing 101.23 mt of crude steel over the calendar year, up 5.87% on 2016...
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23 January 2018 Eric Thorpe
A new wave of technology including autonomous vehicles and aircraft as well as integrated monitoring systems will unlock new levels of efficiency...
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19 January 2018 Alex Connell
A broad set of forces from global energy markets to state/provincial policies are reshaping the North American power, gas, coal, and renewable...
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19 January 2018 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Our experts share three significant energy-related discoveries in 2017 which we think every energy fanatic should know about...
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17 January 2018 Jim Thomas, Ph.D. Yelena Shliomenzon
Exploration spending fell by more than 50% from 2014 to 2016 with all oil and gas players forced to retrench spending.
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05 January 2018 Kareemah Mohamed
IHS Markit expects global E&P sector exploration budgets to remain flat in 2018 as operators continue to focus on efficiencies and improved rec...
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03 January 2018 Paul Markwell
For upstream players to win in the industry's "lower for longer" environment, a sharp focus on cost competitiveness is needed at the project...
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26 December 2017 Divya Parambi
Despite an expected slowdown in drilling activity in 2018, IHS Markit forecasts an uptick in frac demand as built-up drilled uncompleted wells...
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20 December 2017 Spencer Welch
The end of the year is drawing near. We thought we'd take a break from last-minute online holiday shopping for a little introspection.
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18 December 2017 Siddhartha Sen Monica Hoz de Vila