Viktor Katona

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• Is Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed To Fail?

  Published 04 April 2020 | viewed 35,071 times

  The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the…

• Iraq On The Brink Of Civil War As Oil Revenues Evaporate

  Published 02 April 2020 | viewed 56,290 times

  For many countries, the ongoing oil price depression has brought about a new era of impending economic implosion. Yet no one seems to suffer as…

• Iraq Plans Production Surge In The Face Of New OPEC Cuts

  Published 04 March 2020 | viewed 30,786 times

  Iraq needs a positive impetus to leave behind the travails of 2019 – the widespread demonstrations, the geopolitical flare-up engendered by the assassination of Major…

• What’s Next For Omani Oil?

  Published 29 February 2020 | viewed 41,062 times

  On January 10, 2020 Qaboos bin Said, the Sultan of Oman passed away, leaving no heir. The official Omani legal statute would have provided the…

• Nigeria’s Terrible Oil Decision

  Published 22 February 2020 | viewed 33,501 times

  Nigeria has adopted the Finance Act 2020. A step which unacquainted with the phenomenon might seem completely innocent yet poses great risks to the future…

• Russia And Saudi Arabia Fight For Market Share In This Huge Oil Market

  Published 13 February 2020 | viewed 27,943 times

  One of the last bulwarks of global crude demand, India has been in the thick of national NOCs’ attention – Saudi Arabia will from now…

• How Much Further Can Libya’s Oil Production Fall?

  Published 12 February 2020 | viewed 14,531 times

  As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the oil markets, dropping oil prices more vehemently and abruptly than the 2003 SARS outbreak did,…

• Can Argentina Revitalize Its Oil Industry?

  Published 11 February 2020 | viewed 15,133 times

  When Alberto Fernandez, Argentina’s new left-leaning president, entered into office December 10 the international markets were anxious to see whether the post-Macri era would result…

• Russia Looks To Double Coal Exports To China

  Published 06 February 2020 | viewed 28,163 times

  Russia has been historically associated with oil and gas exports, yet the news somewhat underreports its coal market presence. Although neither the world’s largest coal…

• Who Will Drill Mexico’s Hottest Oil Prospect?

  Published 02 February 2020 | viewed 26,164 times

  As any attentive reader of Oilprice would know, Mexico has been fighting a gradual oil production decline for years already – for fifteen years in…

• China Takes The Lead In This Emerging Energy Frontier

  Published 28 January 2020 | viewed 24,027 times

  Several weeks ago, we have looked into a very recent Russian initiative to increase their presence in the southern part of the Gulf of Guinea,…

• Can Europe’s Largest Economy Survive Without Coal?

  Published 26 January 2020 | viewed 29,257 times

  One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even…

• The Hottest Energy Conflict Right Now

  Published 23 January 2020 | viewed 7,245 times

  Belarus has just bought two cargoes of Johan Sverdrup, the recently commissioned Norwegian oilfield and is in talks with several oil-producing countries from the Soviet…

• This Emerging Oil Hotspot Threatens The OPEC Deal

  Published 21 January 2020 | viewed 23,641 times

  A day before Christmas 2019 ExxonMobil and its partners have lifted the first commercial crude from the Liza field. In and of itself this might…

• How Important Is The Suriname Oil Discovery?

  Published 18 January 2020 | viewed 55,807 times

  The discovery of the Maka field in offshore Suriname will become one of the main upstream stories of 2020, bringing Suriname onto the international oil…

• Russia Bets Big On The World's Least Explored Oil Frontier

  Published 12 January 2020 | viewed 25,460 times

  When the inaugural Russia-Africa summit was held in October 2019, most industry observers believed that the majority of projects under discussion would not get past…

• Is Europe’s Latest Gas Deal A Win-Win?

  Published 08 January 2020 | viewed 13,905 times

  The recent gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine, and their national gas companies Gazprom and Naftogaz respectively, has comforted Europe just about when the…

• Europe Can't Get Enough Of This Popular Crude

  Published 01 January 2020 | viewed 25,991 times

  One of the most spectacular stories of 2019 started off in the first days of the outgoing year. Some 150 kilometers off the Nigerian coast,…

• Venezuela Is Quietly Ramping Up Oil Production

  Published 31 December 2019 | viewed 30,570 times

  If anyone is to ever write a guidebook on political survival, the skills of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would certainly top the contemporary charts. This…

• Should Arctic Oil Be Kept Underground?

  Published 29 December 2019 | viewed 13,078 times

  Unless the remaining days of December surprise us with a world-beating hydrocarbon discovery, 2019 will go down as one of the weakest years on record…