Ukrainian and Crimean crisis – European energy policy and market effects
The complex Ukrainian and Crimean situation has an abundance of Cold War, WW2, and maybe even Ottoman Empire parallels, leading back to the early days…
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70 $/MMBtu for shale gas in the US – you must surely be joking?
Yet that was the situation on some key locations on 5 February 2014, and typical prices were well above the magical crude oil parity of…
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The shale well factory coming of age
While international E&P costs have increased strongly in recent years, new data from US oil and gas companies show 30-50% gains in efficiency and yield…
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Pennsylvania’s Act 13 – Towards public acceptance of Marcellus and shale gas
The images of burning water and the resulting environmental discussions in the past two years have faded and natural gas production from the Marcellus shale is…
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Whitepaper released: US LNG Exports – Cumulative Market Impact Assessment
Energy Perspectives is pleased to release a whitepaper on coming US LNG exports. The US gas price fall in 2011 and international demand growth has…
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Macondo blowout and the cost of exploration
Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production activities have now generally been restored to the level before the 2010 Macondo blowout. Drilling bans have been formally…
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Making sense of Kaliningrad LNG
In the last week of November 2013, global energy media have reported that Gazprom plans to build a large LNG export terminal in its Baltic…
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Even US and Canadian LNG Will Take Time
Ok, North America has developed into a natural gas Eldorado in the past five years. However, the giant but “land-locked” North American gas market has…
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The coming real Chinese Energy Market
The communique from the third Chinese communist party plenum on the 12th of November states that “markets will play a decisive role in the allocation…
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The important new CNPC-Novatek LNG agreement
The announcement of a Heads of Agreement between CNPC and Novatek for a minimum annual delivery of 3mt of LNG to China is highly significant,…
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Shale gas development in the UK
At the end of June, the UK Department of Commerce and Climate Change and the British Geological Survey released a revised, but still early assessment…
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Power market uncertainties for LNG and oil in Japan
It is now just over two years since the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. The temporary or permanent closing of nuclear power plants…
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The (r)evolutionary new Oil and Gas Factory – study excerpt
Oil and gas exploration and production in the US has always been different from the rest of the world, not least because of the sheer number…
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Energy market impact of EU´s Large Combustion Plant Directive to 2015
The EU Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) required polluting power plants to either “opt in”, become clean, or “opt out”. While German plants opted in,…
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First edition of our new global LNG site map
On a test basis, we have decided to provide a more detailed version of the global LNG site map and welcome feedback on the details…