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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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09 May 2018 Alejandra León
Given the energy reform process and an increase in gas and oil companies operating in Mexico, the country has the potential to produce 5.3 Bcf/d...
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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
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
Ixachi 1 could be an important addition to the portfolio of PEMEX, a company trying to restructure its holdings, improve its financial outlook...
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14 December 2017 William Plampton
The Perth Basin, situated onshore and offshore, southwest Australia, is a basin with particular interest. It carries previous exploration success...
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07 December 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
From facts about the energy industry and career progression to offshore opportunities and estimations of production dates, these are some of...
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20 November 2017 Lauren Droege Imre Kugler
The last several years have seen a resurgence of interest in the Mississippian play in the northern Anadarko Basin, largely due to the advent...
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16 November 2017 Jim Thompson
US coal producers are changing their attitudes about coal exports and are indifferent to who the counterparty is due to the extreme short-term...
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13 November 2017 Jim Burkhard
Every day there are new stories and announcements about changes in the automotive industry, especially around electric cars and driverless technology....
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09 November 2017 Bruce Jacques
Last week's fraud charge instigation over Rio Tinto's $3bn Mozambique fiasco pulsates an edgy echo from a seminal moment in recent coal history....
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08 November 2017 Isaac Nuti
In a word, booming describes the status of the Guyana offshore oil and gas exploration scene.
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07 November 2017 Eric Thorpe
A myriad of logistics issues and supply and demand factors are hampering the flow of metallurgical coal supply from Australia, according to IHS...
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02 November 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The coal assets of Johannesburg-listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) could become "a permanent drag" on the earnings performance of the black-controlled...
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01 November 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In a major surprise to many market players, the dramatic slide in coal stocks at Indian power plants between April and October has not seen a...
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01 November 2017 Spencer Welch
The move by OPEC and certain non-OPEC countries to reduce oil supply, by 1.8 MMb/d starting in January 2017, is making inroads in shrinking global...
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31 October 2017 Ford Tanner
The political desperation of Venezuela's ruling elite will necessitate efforts aimed at generating upstream investment, new source hydrocarbon...
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29 October 2017 Gael Hankus
Grid defection, or at least partial grid defection, is an increasingly attractive alternative for residential customers
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26 October 2017 Matthew Bax
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA), unlike traditional reservoir engineering methods such as Decline Analysis (DCA), incorporates both fluid rates...
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26 October 2017 Silvia Macri
Microgrids offer an economically viable solution for emerging economies to meet their national electrification targets and to address growing...
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26 October 2017 Efcharis Sgourou
Last year's verdict by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on compensation for the phasing out of the country's nuclear fleet could also mean...
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25 October 2017 James Isaacs
The Kutch Basin is set to become the eighth successful basin to produce hydrocarbons from India
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18 October 2017 Renat Balandin
The US onshore cementing services market, which was estimated to be valued at $3.5bn in 2014, has fallen by 81% by mid-2016.
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16 October 2017 Dr. Piotr Gawenda
Poland announced in June 2015 ten blocks for licensing in 2016. A year later, in June 2016, the authorities presented a further ten areas for...
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15 October 2017 Marian Hookham
Caveat emptor, the venerable Latin term denoting 'buyer beware,' apparently originates from ancient Roman real estate reports. It could be almost...
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13 October 2017 Jim Thompson
The Department of Energy proposal to reform competitive electricity markets, a move that could be deeply positive for many coal and nuclear power...
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11 October 2017 Alessandro Piccoli
How have incoming IOCs impacted the E&P scene and envision the future operations in Romanian & Bulgarian waters
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11 October 2017 Marian Hookham
Coal of Africa (CoAL) has reshuffled its project pipeline so that the Vele mine will be kept in mothballs and the Makhado project will be developed...
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10 October 2017 Jonathan Pascoe
Japan has more than 40 coal-fired power plants
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09 October 2017 Stevenson, James
Low gas prices in Europe will cause a steady increase in coal-to-gas displacement
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05 October 2017 Hassan Eltorie
During the oil boom, upstream companies financed rocketing production growth and sizable cash flow deficits with cheap money during a low interest...
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04 October 2017 Renat Balandin
US onshore oilfield water management services market has regained momentum after a two year decline and is on track to recover to 2014 highs...
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03 October 2017 Marian Hookham
Widely anticipated interest from Indian spot buyers of seaborne coking coal has been quickly choked by the reversal of prices in recent weeks....
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02 October 2017 Patel, Sareena
South Korea is the world's fourth-largest coal-importing country.
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01 October 2017 Nick Trevethan
A combination of improving GDP outlooks around the world, more positive industrial sentiment, low interest rates and high margins for steelmakers...
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29 September 2017 Eric Thorpe
New Hope Corporation returned a significantly improved financial result for the latest financial year ending 31 July, with a significant turnaround...
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28 September 2017 Jim Thompson
Prolonged strength in the metallurgical coal market reflects continued tight supply, defying earlier conventional wisdom that suggested producers...
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26 September 2017 John Howland
India's appetite for imports continues to firm on the back of lower-than-expected availability of domestic coal and a nominal rise in coal fired...
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19 September 2017 Eric Thorpe
Glencore's proposed sale of its 13 mt/y Rolleston thermal coal mine has cast doubt over the viability of the Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal...
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11 September 2017 Pritesh Patel
The Permian Basin is the most dynamic play in North America today. The Wolfcamp Delaware is holding its own at a price under $30 as breakeven...
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06 September 2017 Marian Hookham
Increased demand for metallurgical coal from China and higher prices has provided Mongolia's financially troubled coal miners some relief.
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05 September 2017 Jim Thompson
Price consensus has begun to build regarding North American domestic coal purchases for calendar year 2018.
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28 August 2017 Brian Ferguson Sam Hanna
Total's US$7.42 billion acquisition of Maersk Oil & Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of shipping giant A.P. Møller–Mærsk, fits strategically wit...
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24 August 2017 Hamed Tabatabaie Louis Mattar
The distance of investigation concept is often used to answer two different types of questions
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21 August 2017 Emilie Gubian
The industry adapted remarkably fast to the 2014 collapse in crude oil prices
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18 August 2017 Marian Hookham
Coal operations in New South Wales are bracing for protracted industrial action as the strident CFMEU hits picket lines across Glencore's Hunter...
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17 August 2017 Thomas Parambil Jacob
The frac sand industry is in a transition phase, seeing the emergence of regional Texas mines potentially becoming more and more important over...
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11 August 2017 Jim Thompson
While hard coking coal prices have moved upward rather violently in recent days, some suppliers are concerned the basis for the increase is thin...
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10 August 2017 Vadim Milovanov
Surface recorders can be used along with bottomhole recorders to eliminate the guesswork in determining when a well test can be terminated when...
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09 August 2017 Marian Hookham
Mining giant Glencore is the apparently unwilling recipient of a mining lease for its proposed thermal coal development in Queensland's untapped...
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08 August 2017 Tiziana Luzzi
The latest update on bid rounds from across Latin American countries
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03 August 2017 Marian Hookham
As spot prices for prime hard coking coal hover in the mid $170's, several private and smaller Indian steel mills are priced out of the spot...
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02 August 2017 Cyrus Daftary
Fresh off the heels of the annual Tax Withholding and Information Reporting Conference in NYC, the oil and gas industry should have one takeaway...
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31 July 2017 Amanda Nelson
The recent news of a major discovery and a planned fast-tracked development in the Sureste Basin comes as a validation both of Mexico's celebrated...
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28 July 2017 Jim Thompson
The bear lurks on the fringe of the global metallurgical coal market, but for now supply has been fragile as china in a closet, thus keeping...
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26 July 2017 Carlos Rocha
2017 has been a decisive year for Brazil local content requirements changes. The government halved the local content requirements for this year's...
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21 July 2017 Marian Hookham
Despite relatively minor impacts on recent supply demand fundamentals, seaborne coking coal spot prices managed to rally over the past fortnight...
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20 July 2017 Marc Messner
Recognizing how important it is to our customers to have access to the most complete and accurate production data available, IHS Markit has made...
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19 July 2017 Jim Thompson
The first tickets have been issued to the annual dance among United States (US) cokemakers and metallurgical (met) coal suppliers.
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13 July 2017 Dale Struksnes
Consistency of interpretation" is the hallmark of quality work for the IHS Markit sub-surface consulting team
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12 July 2017 Jennifer Thomas
The IHS Markit North American upstream capital cost index is down slightly in first quarter 2017, while the North American operating cost index...
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29 June 2017 Michael Wynne
Information quantity has exploded in the last decade, with "Big Data" made readily available by a wide range of sources.
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28 June 2017 Spencer Welch
For more than 30 years, Dated Brent has been the world's most important crude benchmark, it is estimated that Dated Brent is currently used to...
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23 June 2017 Adrian Heafford
The Sri Lankan Government (PRDS) is conducting a limited tender for offshore block M2, Mannar Basin. Applications are due by 29 September 2017...
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22 June 2017 Reed Olmstead
By 2013, the industry began to realize the impact the Permian Basin could have on US production, but many operators, service companies, and financial...
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20 June 2017 Rachael Moreland
The Wolfcamp Formation within the Permian basin and each of its shale benchmarks provides an excellent example of how we can use petrophysical...
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15 June 2017 Kevin Birn
Over the next two years Canadian oil production growth will be exceeded only by US tight oil.
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14 June 2017 MacKnight, Bob
Mexico's Round 2.1 offers 15 shallow water blocks in the Tampico Misantla, Veracruz, and the Sureste Basins.
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13 June 2017 Bruce Smith
Allocation is the process of estimating the portion of the monthly volume from each well on the lease.
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07 June 2017 Jim Bock
Pattern recognition has long been a key to our understanding of geologic landforms and depositional regimes.
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01 June 2017 Raoul LeBlanc
The Permian Basin in Texas is currently the most exciting place in the world for upstream companies.
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30 May 2017 Dr. Russell Roundtree
In a resource constrained world, one always looks for potential efficiencies.
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25 May 2017 Caldwell Bailey
After two years in the doldrums, the hydraulic fracturing services industry is on pace for significant improvement.
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23 May 2017 Kelvin Gan
A software upgrade or update process can be a confusing and daunting task. To some users, the process can also be a time consuming endeavor.
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16 May 2017 Jeff Meyer
The oil price crash of 2014–15 sparked a difficult recalibration between upstream oil revenue and oil field development costs.
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11 May 2017 Michael Ryan
On balance, the global economy is expected to accelerate in 2017 but not without considerable risks that have the potential to disrupt world...
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08 May 2017 Hernandez, Adriana
Worried about the production of your gas well?
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04 May 2017 Edward Kelly
Natural gas production in the Permian Basin is growing rapidly along with oil.
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03 May 2017 Thomas Parambil Jacob
The frac sand sector has re-entered bullish territory in 2017 as demand is expected to exceed peak 2014 levels before the end of the year.
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25 April 2017 Carlos Pascual
The broader security and commercial impacts of US-Russia relations are global, not least in the energy sector.
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19 April 2017 Brad Taggart
Assignments are the missing piece in identifying your competition.
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12 April 2017 Dominik Rozwadowski
Canada poised to add to new crude supply from its complex production matrix
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11 April 2017 Zane Reynolds
A key strategy operators used to weather the downturn in oil and gas prices for the last three years was to delay completion of drilled wells...
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27 March 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Ministerial dialogue with Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit (Chair), Chairman, CERAWeek and HE Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State -...
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22 March 2017 Raoul LeBlanc
CERAWeek posted record attendance numbers this year, and the North American onshore was decidedly the topic du jour.
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21 March 2017 Michael Dyer
Government plans are being changed for Deep Water and Unconventional blocks
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19 March 2017 Andy Byrne
IHS Markit expects that the sufficient number of private operators remaining means that the Permian M&A frenzy has only just begun, despite rel...
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16 March 2017 Reed Olmstead
2017 is certainly the year to unleash the beast and get the growth engine restarted.
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14 March 2017 Simon Davies
A common objective when analyzing gathering systems is to perform "what if?" scenarios, such as twinning a pipeline or adding a compressor and...
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10 March 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In an exclusive CERAWeek interview, Secretary General of OPEC Mohammed Barkindo speaks with Dr. Dan Yergin about the historic OPEC agreement...
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09 March 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
HE Khalid A. Al-Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources for Saudi Arabia, talked to the CERAWeek audience about the importance...
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09 March 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In the opening oil dialogue on Tuesday morning, Robert Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP plc., speaks with Dr. Dan Yergin on the current oil...
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08 March 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
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 2017 Justin Pettit Michael Muirhead
How tighter control over fracture height can also yield benefits in terms of the optimization of vertical and horizontal well spacing.
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22 February 2017 Stephen Trammel
There's been a lot of buzz lately about "big data" - how it will revolutionize the world by helping businesses understand customers, make better...
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16 February 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In a resilient, competitive market, you need the full land data picture to pinpoint joint ventures, find new opportunities and know your competition....
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14 February 2017 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The Wolfcamp shale has taken center stage and the full glare of the spotlight.