Viktor Katona

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• Is Guyana Prepared For An Oil Boom?

  Published 21 March 2018 | viewed 48,282 times

  Guyana’s story shares many similarities with the story of the ugly duckling. One of the poorest countries in South America, it has historically been entirely…

• What The Saudi-Russian Alliance Means For Oil Markets

  Published 20 March 2018 | viewed 17,354 times

  For the last three or four decades it would be very hard to imagine any sort of deep cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Russia. The…

• 44 Things You Didn’t Know About Oil

  Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 52,080 times

  Whenever you see a headline like this, you know it will go along the lines of “did you know that petroleum stands for rock oil?”…

• Should Energy Investors Fear Mexico’s 2018 Elections?

  Published 25 February 2018 | viewed 11,113 times

  Within a few months, Mexico will have a new President. With the incumbent Enrique Peña Nieto barred from running, the most likely winner is Andrés…

• Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas

  Published 14 February 2018 | viewed 183,972 times

  If finally happened… In accordance with an energy cooperation framework agreement signed in late January, Russia will have exclusive rights to produce oil and gas…

• The World’s Biggest Oil Benchmark Could Change Forever

  Published 06 February 2018 | viewed 18,115 times

  For more than a month already, the Brent benchmark has been sourced from five, not four, North Sea Fields. Eleven years after Platts added Ekofisk…

• Saudi Arabia Sets Its Eyes On Central Asia

  Published 03 February 2018 | viewed 17,518 times

  Saudi Arabia understandably attracts a lot of attention – the corruption purge jangles the nerves of the royal family, the 32-year old Mohammad bin Salman-led…

• This World Class Gas Field Is About To Start Producing

  Published 24 January 2018 | viewed 19,012 times

  99 percent ready and poised to start this September. This is music to the ears of Azerbaijan, as well as to European technocrats intent on…

• Nord Stream 2 Is A Game Changer For Gazprom

  Published 21 January 2018 | viewed 22,590 times

  It’s difficult to imagine an energy company that’s more hated and more closely monitored than Gazprom… Perhaps in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill,…

• Romania Poised To Ramp Up Gas Output

  Published 14 January 2018 | viewed 21,213 times

  Do you know what unites France, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and Belgium? They all have no gas production whatsoever (interestingly, Paris is proud of it and…

• The World’s Most Expensive Oil

  Published 09 January 2018 | viewed 108,277 times

  When asked about the most expensive oil grade out there, those working in the oil industry are caught blindsided because there’s no easy way to…

• Heroes, Gods And Genghis Khan: Naming An Oilfield

  Published 06 January 2018 | viewed 21,745 times

  Have you ever wondered why oil and gas fields bear their respective names? How names like Dead Cow, Mad Dog or even Ekofisk came about—or…

• Can Blockchain Bring An End To Corruption?

  Published 03 January 2018 | viewed 23,886 times

  The Roman historian Tacitus once famously quipped “the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws”. Every year, roughly 2 percent of global GDP…

• The Beginning Of The End For Norwegian Oil

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 51,290 times

  The demise of the North Sea doesn’t necessarily mean the end of Norway’s petroleum era—far from it. Still, despite significant reserves in the Barents Sea,…

• The 'Mega' Oil Field That Will Never Boom

  Published 05 December 2017 | viewed 58,906 times

  2017 will most likely witness a continuation in the decline of conventional oil discoveries. This year has seen no major onshore discovery, pretty much all…

• Ghana Looks To Ramp Oil Production

  Published 11 November 2017 | viewed 23,874 times

  Ghana, one of Africa’s democratic standard bearers, is a relative newcomer to the oil sector. Having surpassed oil development’s teething problems, it has remained highly…

• Russia Unfazed By U.S. Oil Sanctions

  Published 09 November 2017 | viewed 23,226 times

  Western energy sanctions vis-à-vis Russia have become a steady phenomenon of the global oil and gas market. Most Russian oil companies don’t expect sanctions to…

• Don’t Expect Palladium Prices To Plunge

  Published 08 November 2017 | viewed 52,119 times

  Over the past month, there has been a deluge of news heralding a new era of palladium, which has soared above the $1000 per ounce…

• Russia’s Nuclear Sector Is Surging

  Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 22,489 times

  The nuclear sector is undergoing a massive transformation... Regions previously in the avant-garde of nuclear design and technology are losing interest on the back of…

• The Natural Gas Giant To Challenge Israel

  Published 04 October 2017 | viewed 23,814 times

  When Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri paid a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin mid-September, most media coverage revolved around political and military issues. Yet…