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Oilbarrel.com has made something of a home-from-home in The Brewery on Chiswell Street, site of Samuel Whitbread’s brewing operations in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the historic buildings proving a pleasant and increasingly
Full story...Oilbarrel.com’s 32nd conference started not with a bang but a cloud of smoke as a fire on the City limits, from which oilbarrel’s HQ was not immune, sent smoke drifting across the Square Mile. Still oilbarrel.com delegates are a
Full story...A few years ago, people scoffed at the possibility of finding oil in landlocked Uganda. And the prospect of spending billions of dollars in development money off the coast of Ghana would have sent bankers into an early pre-credit
Full story...After a couple of difficult years, AIM-quoted Roxi Petroleum is about to undergo quite a transformation. The company, which holds a package of exploration, appraisal and development projects in West and Central Kazakhstan, plans
Full story...Despite a cold and dismal start to the day in London, the first oilbarrel.com conference of 2010 was another busy affair as delegates gathered for their fix of industry news and gossip. First to speak was Jay Lendrum, CEO of
Full story...If high oil prices are a good thing – which of course depends on whether you’re a producer or a consumer – then the year started with a bang. The record US$147 per barrel price of mid-2008 seems a long way off now, but in the
Full story...This entertaining book is about Nigeria and the corruption caused by oil, the so-called “resource curse”. It is written by the former West Africa correspondent of the Financial Times. Michael Peel lived for some years in Lagos,
Full story...The sight of crude oil tankers sitting off the Suffolk shoreline is all too common for residents of the old-fashioned seaside town of Southwold.
Full story...The outcome of the Copenhagen conference may make it timely to review David Buchan’s ambitious attempt to analyse the recent history of the energy policy of the European Union (EU). The book is not an easy read, but this is not
Full story...Iraq is finally coming into focus for some of the world’s big oil companies. Perhaps more than at any other time since the US-led invasion of 2003, the country’s huge oil wealth is now within grasp, or so it would seem.
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