28 November 2018
Energy Company of the Year—small cap
Energean
Energean is living proof that a small energy company can think and act big—if it proceeds judiciously. A Greek company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and with its corporate headquarters here, Energean has risen from being a small player to one of the most successful newcomers in the Eastern Mediterranean. In its first venture it acquired the Prinos oilfield in north-eastern Greek, a near moribund asset at the time. Energean is expanding production there, and Prinos remains Greece’s sole producing field. But it is further to the east that Energean has made its name. At the end of 2016, it took over the Karish and Tanin fields offshore Israel, where natural gas had been discovered by Del

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