Viktor Katona

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• Why Algeria’s Oil Sector Isn’t Booming

  Published 06 September 2018 | viewed 30,838 times

  Algeria has survived the decade of political turmoil, with Arab Spring revolutions subverting authoritarian leaders across the Maghreb, largely unscathed. Popular unrest was swiftly quelled…

• Is This The Riskiest Oil Frontier In The World?

  Published 05 September 2018 | viewed 17,361 times

  Seven years after South Sudan became independent, leaving behind a sanguinary civil war, it finally reached the point where it places its bets on development…

• Can France Move Away From Nuclear Energy?

  Published 02 September 2018 | viewed 32,516 times

  For a long time, it seemed that France, Europe’s leading nuclear power producer, will seek to decrease the share of nuclear in its energy matrix.…

• Is Renewable Energy As Clean As We Think?

  Published 23 August 2018 | viewed 51,328 times

  Fossil fuel energy has understandably become the clay pigeon of environmentalists in the past decades – with oil & gas companies having lied too often…

• Deciphering The New Caspian Agreement

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 13,468 times

  It took more than 20 years for littoral states of the Caspian Sea to reach an agreement that would lay the legal foundations for the…

• Who Profits From Iran’s Oil Major Exodus?

  Published 12 August 2018 | viewed 21,637 times

  Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal and slap sanctions on Teheran is the most significant energy development of 2018. The first round…

• Is This Europe’s Newest Oil & Gas Producer?

  Published 08 August 2018 | viewed 28,065 times

  Few countries have a hydrocarbon history as difficult and convoluted as Portugal. It has lost its colonies just as Angola’s oil production was on the…

• The Weirdest Oil Lawsuit Of 2018

  Published 06 August 2018 | viewed 13,211 times

  Rosneft has been rocking the Russian oil sector for quite some time already – first it acquired several domestic assets, in some cases bordering on…

• Is This The Next Coal Megaproject?

  Published 24 July 2018 | viewed 19,920 times

  Some 80km from the Chinese border, the tiny Russian village of Yerkovtsy might provide the setting for a new Russo-Chinese megaproject. The 38 BCm/year Power…

• Ukraine’s Natural Gas Transit Woes May Be Easing

  Published 21 July 2018 | viewed 13,984 times

  Despite significantly weakened interest towards internal political dealings in Ukraine itself, the issue of Ukraine’s gas transit remains a much-debated issue of the European energy…

• The Last Oil & Gas Frontier Is Facing Major Challenges

  Published 18 July 2018 | viewed 11,857 times

  Upon hearing Papua New Guinea, very few us associate it with LNG – some might recall that it is one of the most heterogenous nations…

• Yamal LNG Is Conquering China

  Published 16 July 2018 | viewed 23,920 times

  Russia’s energy ties to China have been discussed at length throughout our website – the construction of the 38 BCm per year Power of Siberia…

• Korea Rapprochement Could Revive Energy Megaproject

  Published 24 June 2018 | viewed 12,173 times

  The June 12 Trump-Kim summit in Singapore has had an overall positive effect on the oil industry, cooling down expectations about the imminence of a…

• Can Oil Pull Greece Out Of Poverty?

  Published 19 June 2018 | viewed 30,151 times

  In its eighth year of paralyzing austerity, Greece is facing another hot summer. Political controversies will be even more heated than the blessed Peloponnese climate,…

• Who Gets Hold Of Russia’s Key Oil Hub?

  Published 17 June 2018 | viewed 7,900 times

  One of Russia’s most important oil ports, the sunlit Novorossiysk, has become a battleground for the country’ state-owned companies. Located in the ice-free Tsemesskaya Bay,…

• Turkmenistan’s Natural Gas Dilemma

  Published 29 May 2018 | viewed 18,677 times

  Amid much (obligatory) fanfare, Turkmenistan has intensified its spin campaign on TAPI, the long-delayed pipe dream of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov which is supposed to supply…

• Expert Analysis: What’s Next For Russian Oil

  Published 14 May 2018 | viewed 12,861 times

  In the wake of Putin’s May 7 inauguration, the corridors of power in Moscow have been replete with speculation regarding the composition of the next…

• Why Russian Gas Is Critical For The UK

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 22,342 times

  Although some companies have learned to ride the waves of geopolitics quite efficiently, still in most cases political tensions only complicate the dealings of energy…

• Will Gazprom Leave Ukraine Forever?

  Published 01 April 2018 | viewed 18,646 times

  Few expected such a dramatic turn of events in the long-ongoing Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute. Before the February 28 decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court, most…

• The Energy Giant Taking Over Kurdistan

  Published 27 March 2018 | viewed 22,267 times

  After the steady buildup of a burgeoning strategic partnership between the Russian national oil company and Kurdistan’s Regional Government (KRG), the year 2018 threw cold…