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• How Trinidad & Tobago Is Benefitting From The Venezuelan Crisis

  Published 10 August 2019 | viewed 16,772 times

  In June the UN estimated that 4m people had fled Venezuela as a result of the crisis. Of these, some 40,000 have arrived in T&T.…

• Colombia’s Push To Triple Proven Oil & Gas Reserves

  Published 17 July 2019 | viewed 18,877 times

  With no major onshore oil discoveries since 2009, Colombia’s oil and gas reserves have dwindled. The country has thus turned to non-conventional deposits as a…

• Papua New Guinea Looks To Double LNG Production

  Published 08 June 2019 | viewed 16,456 times

  On April 9 PNG’s government signed an agreement with Total, ExxonMobil and the Australian Securities Exchange-listed Oil Search, setting out the terms and conditions for…

• Can This Former Oil Giant Become Energy Independent?

  Published 02 June 2019 | viewed 23,840 times

  Replacing diminishing reserves and guaranteeing domestic energy security are two of Indonesia’s policy priorities. As such, oil and gas exploration and development are key areas…

• The OPEC Outcast Fighting For LNG Dominance

  Published 01 June 2019 | viewed 22,597 times

  For over a decade Qatar has been the world’s leading supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG), and by 2024 the country aims to strengthen its…

• Trinidad And Tobago Doubles Down On Gas Production

  Published 25 May 2019 | viewed 15,831 times

  On April 19 the World Bank revised its forecast from earlier in the month, which had predicted that T&T would slip into a recession. In…

• The Driving Force Behind Nigeria’s Energy Renaissance

  Published 18 May 2019 | viewed 19,975 times

  With an abundant supply of natural resources, Nigeria’s oil and gas sector plays a key role in global energy. Its oil deposits have been a…

• Oman’s Newest Approach To Boost Oil Production

  Published 13 May 2019 | viewed 9,881 times

  Oman has made some major moves to diversify its energy mix, as indicated by the commissioning of new renewable energy (RE) projects. The sultanate has…

• The Saudi Plan To Boost Spare Oil Production Capacity

  Published 07 May 2019 | viewed 12,104 times

  Even as Saudi Arabia’s oil production reached record levels, with total output hitting 11.1m barrels per day (bpd) in November 2018, the country is boosting…

• Tunisia Looks To Boost Renewable Sector

  Published 30 March 2019 | viewed 7,978 times

  Slim Feriani, the minister of industry and small and medium-sized enterprises, announced in mid-January that the country was seeking to attract $2bn in foreign investment…

• Mexico Scrambles To Save Its Sinking Oil Company

  Published 25 March 2019 | viewed 12,829 times

  On February 15 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the launch of Pemex’s Strengthening Programme, a six-year plan designed to improve the company’s financial…

• Rising Energy Demand Could Be A Boon For The Philippines

  Published 20 February 2019 | viewed 6,626 times

  In January Energy World Corporation (EWC) announced it had been given final approval by the Department of Energy (DoE) under their new regulations to build…

• Falling Oil Prices Threaten Saudi Economic Growth

  Published 22 December 2018 | viewed 21,433 times

  In October the IMF revised its forecast for Saudi economic growth in 2018 and 2019, predicting GDP would increase by 2.2 percent and 2.4 percent,…

• Ghana’s Energy Industry Becomes A Boon For The Economy

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 6,846 times

  On October 15 President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the opening of the country’s first open and competitive round of bidding for energy exploration licences, with three…

• Qatar Looks To Revitalize Trade Amid Embargo

  Published 29 November 2018 | viewed 11,290 times

  On November 7 Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, announced that Doha was looking…

• Wind, Solar Could Help Oman Meet Energy Goals

  Published 25 November 2018 | viewed 9,690 times

  On October 29 Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) announced it had contracted Omani-Japanese joint venture Marubeni Consortium to develop a 100-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant.…

• Ivory Coast Pivots Towards Renewables

  Published 03 November 2018 | viewed 10,005 times

  Côte d’Ivoire is moving forward with plans to build its first biomass power stations, part of wider efforts to respond to rising domestic energy demand…

• Energy Earnings Pull Trinidad And Tobago From Recession

  Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 5,563 times

  Presented on October 1 by Colm Imbert, the minister of finance, the 2019 budget forecasts GDP to increase by 1.9 percent this year before rising…

• Myanmar To Auction Off 31 New Oil And Gas Blocks

  Published 20 October 2018 | viewed 15,029 times

  On August 30 the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) announced it would be opening fresh rounds of bidding for oil and gas blocks in…

• Nigeria Doubles Down On Mini-Grids

  Published 29 September 2018 | viewed 13,852 times

  The development potential of Nigerian mini-grids – generation and distribution systems capable of supplying up to 1 MW of capacity from renewable sources, independent of…