Tagged With Anthea Pitt
26 May 2015
The sector has yet to fully find its feet following the collapse of oil’s latest bull run.
11 December 2014
Trinidad and Tobago’s energy minister, Kevin Ramnarine, is revitalising his country’s gas sector. Anthea Pitt interviewed him in Port of Spain
31 October 2014
Total lauds the economic strengths of its new Saudi Arabian complex while troubles in Europe mount
22 October 2014
The death of Christophe de Margerie in a plane crash not only robs Total of its charismatic chairman and chief executive, it denies the energy industry one of its most passionate advocates. We are far poorer for his loss.
24 September 2014
Antonio Brufau helped transform Repsol it into an outfit that punches well above its weight - and shepherded the company through its most serious crisis. Profile by Anthea Pitt
22 September 2014
The plant took four years to build and $1.7bn investment to make it the largest PVC producer in Russia
29 May 2014
Two new books tell the sorry tale of South Sudan and Sudan, and the oil at the heart of their dysfunctional relationship. Review by Anthea Pitt
20 February 2014
Norway's Arctic experience shows that development in the High North will take time - and money
23 August 2013
Statoil is a model for other NOCs, neatly balancing the needs of its state controller with the urges of its private shareholders
8 July 2013
Oil could bind the two Sudans together. For now, it remains another source of conflict between them
4 January 2013
Norway has a rich history of technological innovation, especially in the upstream sector. And now the country’s flagship producer Statoil is leading the offshore industry’s shift to the sea floor
24 May 2012
Burning off associated gas is a big problem for Russia. Sibur is building a business model around solving it
23 February 2012
Australia’s Origin Energy today announced an increase in proven and probable coal-bed methane (CBM) reserves earmarked for feedstock for the Australia-Pacific Liquefied Natural Gas (APLNG) development, in Australia’s Queensland state, and has hinted it may further reduce its stake in the A$20 billion ($21 billion) project
22 February 2012
The Arctic’s potential has long been a lure for explorers. But while some sectors of the region have become proved petroleum provinces other plays are proving harder to tap
21 February 2012
Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico’s Western Gap, which straddles the US/Mexico maritime border, may soon get under way following a landmark deal agreed on 20 February
25 January 2012
South Sudan is again locked in conflict with its former rulers in Khartoum. This time, oil is the weapon of choice for both
15 December 2011
From small things, good things grow, says Antonio Brufau. Repsol’s chief discusses the strengths of not-so-big oil
15 December 2011
From small things, good things grow, says Antonio Brufau. Repsol’s chief talks to Anthea Pitt, about the strengths of not-so-big oil
12 December 2011
It’s 20 months since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Anthea Pitt and Kwok W Wan ask: has BP really turned the corner?
15 November 2011
Potential of between 500 million and 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent unconventionals
10 November 2011
Innovation is in Petrobras’s DNA, so dreams of a platform-less offshore environment may become reality within a decade
10 November 2011
The Sudanese air force today flew a sortie across the international border with South Sudan, and bombed a refugee camp
13 October 2011
A southwest extension at the BP-operated Clair field has boosted its initial in-place resources to more than 7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe)
12 October 2011
Petrobras chief executive Jose Sergio Gabrielli shrugged off talk that global economic uncertainty could derail the company’s ambitious plans to develop Brazil’s pre-salt play, saying the slowdown in the Brazilian firm’s investment programme had nothing to do with macroeconomics
21 September 2011
No-one was hurt when the Patterson 179 rig, near Watonga, caught fire on Monday evening
21 September 2011
In a speech, President Obama noted the importance of energy companies disclosing the payments that foreign governments demand of them
21 September 2011
US government officials are drawing up guidelines that will allow the country’s oil companies to operate in South Sudan, without breaching sanctions imposed against its northern neighbour
2 September 2011
The pipeline link would provide an alternative to the transit fee currently paid by South Sudan
30 August 2011
Blow for BP as US supermajor seals E&P deal in frontier Kara Sea play
24 August 2011
BHP Billiton is considering expanding into shale-gas exploration beyond the US in the wake of its take-over of Petrohawk Energy and the purchase of a package of assets from Chesapeake Energy
24 August 2011
About 98% of South Sudan’s income is derived from its oilfields, but the country has not received any oil money since May
22 August 2011
Nobody’s a winner as deadlock between north and south over oil-revenue sharing and pipeline access, and onerous sanctions leave Sudanese oil production in limbo, writes Anthea Pitt
19 August 2011
US sanctions against Syria – specifically targeting the oil sector – may have serious implications for European refiners, although crude prices are, in the short-term, unlikely to be affected
18 August 2011
Committee on Foreign Investment approves $12.1 billion take-over
18 August 2011
China remains Sudan's largest trade partner, but within a few weeks the US will decide whether to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism
4 August 2011
Containing a Macondo-style blowout in Canada’s Arctic would be extremely difficult, says a new report to the country’s National Energy Board (NEB)
2 August 2011
Brazil’s Petrobras is ramping up its refining capacity, but the country’s prolific pre-salt upstream play corners the lion’s share of its huge investment programme
22 July 2011
An oil deal struck between South Sudan’s state-owned producer, Nilepet, and international commodities broker Glencore is at the centre of an internal struggle for control of the fledgling nation’s exports
21 July 2011
Pagan Amum will continue as South Sudan’s chief negotiator in talks with Omar al-Bashir’s government over oil-infrastructure access, despite resigning from a key post in the post-independence government
18 July 2011
Oil was the elephant in the room on independence day. But it’s as crucial to South Sudan’s future as it was to its past
17 June 2011
Greenpeace’s international director, Kumi Naidoo, this morning boarded the semi-submersible drilling rig operating off Greenland for Cairn Energy, in breach of an injunction granted to the Edinburgh-based explorer last week
6 June 2011
A Dutch judge today asked Cairn Energy why it had not made public the oil-spill response plan it prepared for the Greenland government ahead of this year’s Arctic drilling campaign
10 May 2011
US oil executives are preparing for a face-off with the Senate finance committee on Thursday as lawmakers called on the industry to defend tax breaks worth an estimated $4 billion a year, even as consumers face rising gasoline prices
10 May 2011
Opposition to the UK’s controversial decision to increase taxes on the country’s energy industry has gained pace
5 May 2011
International Contact Group set to siphon Qadhafi funds to TNC
27 April 2011
By embracing and enhancing the EITI, resource companies will level the playing field, says Clare Short
4 April 2011
Ola Borten Moe previously said company should withdraw; Statoil facing court appearance over water charges
4 April 2011
Output to rise by 6% this year; capex $100bn over next three years
