Market Intelligence
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Informed articles from the go-to people in the oil and gas industry
Alex Pourbaix, COO, TransCanada PipeLines Ltd
In the early 1990s, I was a young attorney at an energy commodity trading company in Calgary, and in 1994 we sold that company to TransCanada, where I have been employed since.
Frederik Smits van Oyen, VP Marketing & Origination, Cheniere
After graduating from university I got the opportunity to do an international traineeship with Shell. I spent three months in Africa and was exposed to the many interesting aspects of this exciting industry.
Bob Orr, Senior Partner, Oliver Wyman
As a business consultant growing up, I spent time in several different industries before landing in oil – or at least landing in fuels as was the case for me.
Expert Insight: White & Case
A report earlier this year by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (often called the ‘JFTC’) has set tongues wagging in the Asian LNG industry.
Five Things We Learned About South America
It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore, but energy development is only truly meaningful for local economy and communities when small -and mid-caps are present and striving.
Alessandro Bacci
Iran has the world’s fourth largest proven crude oil reserves at 158 billion barrels (after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Canada) and the world’s first proven natural gas reserves at 1,183 trillion cubic feet.
Matthew Brown, Partner, Latham & Watkins
The number of new gas to power (G2P) project announcements has swelled in recent months across diverse markets, including Asia, Africa and Europe — but potential challenges need to be considered.
William Waggoner, CEO, Mexico Petroleum Company
Mexico Petroleum Company’s focus is on upstream opportunities in Mexico.
Michael Lawson, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
Being able to collaborate with the leaders of this industry to ultimately unlock new opportunities for our clients and promote innovation, development and growth in the oil & gas sector.
Keith Collins, CEO, Vestigo Petroleum
I foresee that 2016 and 17 will be tough years for the industry so our key focus areas will be to maintain the balance between revenue and cost and only invest in projects that generate near term free cashflow.
Franck Pliya, Country Director, Senegal, TechnipFMC
Since a couple of years, our clients are having to transform as the market is adapting. The focus is on lower field development and operations costs, quicker project life cycle, shorter schedule, reduced risk profile, all of which will improve their projects economics.
Nobuyuki Higashi, Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Planning, INPEX
The successful progress of our 2 major LNG projects, Ichys and Abady.