Recent strong upstream developments in the natural gas industry and the continued positive supply outlook for the fuel have triggered some significant investments around natural gas for transportation, possibly marking the beginning of a transitio...

The energy sector produces vast and varied amounts of information: raw exploration data, real-time production data, refinery process-related data, and trading and retail information. In oil exploration, for example, petabytes of data are generated...

The oil and gas landscape continues to show signs of rapid change that sporadically brings up challenges for the industry to adapt to. In 2012, many oil companies owed their profitability to a really strong downstream performance. Unplanned outa...

Across the globe, countries are at different stages of transition to new energy systems that more readily deliver on the three key energy challenges of promoting economic development, providing energy security and access while achieving environmen...

The challenge of growing oil and gas production seems harder than ever as we enter 2013. Despite a forecast of even higher spend in 2013 than 2012 (with forecasts from Barclays Capital of a new high for upstream expenditure at  US$644 billioni) th...

The gas industry is one of several sectors in transition in the energy industry. Rising gas production in the United States from shale basins has transformed the global gas market and inspired many countries, such as Argentina, China, Poland, Sout...

Even as crude oil markets remain well supplied and balanced despite persistently high oil prices, the emerging high-cost environment for the industry and upstream in particular, continues to cause concern, as seen in upstream hotspots such as Asia...

Despite supply uncertainties resurfacing in the Middle East and economic stimulus programs unfurling in the Eurozone, China and the USA, the prevailing trend in oil markets for 2013 seems to be one of oversupply.  As the global economy continues t...

Despite some current signs to the contrary, demand for both oil and gas is set to continue to increase. Today’s challenges such as the Eurozone crisis and slowing gross domestic product (GDP) in both developed and now some developing countries con...

There is increasing evidence that the world is making a transition to a cleaner energy system where non-carbon fuels will play a bigger part. While both Germany and Japan were motivated to move away from nuclear energy, toward renewable energy by ...