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WINDFALL TAX FALLOUT RIPPLES THROUGH THE NORTH-EAST ECONOMY
The effects of the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) are no longer confined to the oil and gas sector...
NAMIBIA’S RISING PROMINENCE IN THE UPSTREAM OIL AND GAS SECTOR
Written by Guilherme Martins, Energy Analyst (Oil & Gas) – Europe & Africa In re...
NAMIBIA UNVEILS OFFSHORE DRILLING PLANS AND LICENSING OPPORTUNITIES
Namibia’s offshore oil and gas industry is set for significant growth in 2025, driven by ne...
SECURING AFRICA’S ENERGY FUTURE
The global transition to a low-carbon economy has led to increased scrutiny of coal with many...
AEC, CNDES COOPERATION TO BOOST EQUATORIAL GUINEA’S O&G SECTOR GROWTH
The African Energy Chamber (AEC), the voice of the African energy sector, recently engaged wi...
BUILDING MORE WIND IS KEY TO DELIVER THE EU CLEAN INDUSTRIAL DEAL
Europe built 16.4 GW of wind energy, 13 GW in the EU, according to WindEurope’s 2024 St...
GHANA COMMITS TO ACCELERATED INVESTMENT DRIVE
A recent meeting in London between Ghana’s Ministry of Energy and Green Transition and the ...
COMMENTARY: AFRICANS ARE REGAINING CONTROL OVER THEIR MINERAL WEALTH
By Duggan Flanakin The announcement of the inaugural African Mining Week (AMW 2025), to be cel...
AEC CALLS FOR INDUSTRY SUPPORT TO DEFEND AFRICAN MARKET
The African Energy Chamber calls for the industry to stand growing against opposition from we...
NIGERIA LEADS AFRICA AS TOP UPSTREAM INVESTMENT DESTINATION
Nigeria ranks as Africa’s leading destination for upstream oil and gas investment in 20...
HOW A NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD SHAPE U.S.-AFRICA ENERGY RELATIONS
With the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump today, the future of American involvemen...
THE JUST ENERGY TRANSITION IN AFRICA: LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND SENEGAL
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber Just Energy Transition Partnerships...
SHELL WRITE DOWN IN NAMIBIA MERELY A SPEED BUMP, NOT A ROAD BLOCK
The country still offers substantial potential in the offshore Orange Basin, confirmed by major p...
GRID AND STORAGE READINESS IS KEY TO ACCELERATING THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Expert Insight by: Adrian Gonzelez, Programme Officer, Innovation and End-use Sectors, IRENA ...
API OPPOSES RESTRICTIONS TO OFFSHORE OIL AND NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released the following statement from President and CE...
AEC CALLS FOR PEACE AND STABILITY AS MOZAMBIQUE PREPARES TO UNLOCK LNG POTENTIAL
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber With plans currently underway to re...
AFRICAN ENERGY 2024: SURGING INVESTMENT, WAVES OF CHANGE
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber I’ve said for years that Afri...
NO OFFSHORE BIDS IN DENMARK - DISAPPOINTING BUT NOT SURPRISING
Denmark’s latest 3 GW offshore wind auction round ended without any bids. That’s a hu...
THE FIERCE URGENCY OF AFRICAN ENERGY BANKS
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber For more than a year, the African E...
SUCCESSFUL AFRICAN ENERGY POLICY AT COP MUST HAVE OIL AND GAS AT ITS CORE
NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the AEC I believe the ultimate responsibility for getting t...
AEC UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF AFRICA’S VOICE IN THE GLOBAL ENERGY DIALOGUE
By Ajong Mbapndah L Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber NJ Ayuk and the globa...
OEUK RESPONDS TO AUTUMN BUDGET
The leading trade body for the UK offshore energy sector has responded to today’s Autumn Bu...
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES FOR AFRICA'S JUST TRANSITION
The global pursuit to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is getting closer with each year, ...
DR. BENEDICT ORAMAH PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO AFRICA’S ENERGY FUTURE
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber Ahead of the November 2022 United Natio...
AEC CONDEMNS CRI’S CAMPAIGN TO BLOCK UGANDA OIL PROJECT
The African Energy Chamber denounces Climate Rights International’s attempts to halt Ug...
OEUK HIGHLIGHTS IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT’S OIL AND GAS TAX CHANGES
Leading trade body, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) this week releases data which models the impact o...
THE STATE OF AFRICAN ENERGY OUTLOOK 2024
NJ Ayuk JD, MBA.NJ Ayuk JD, MBA, Executive Chairman at African Energy Chamber Besides attr...
REFORM HAS BENEFITED ANGOLA’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber Chevron is already a major player in A...
EQUATORIAL GUINEA, NIGERIA SIGN GULF OF GUINEA GAS PIPELINE AGREEMENT
The pipeline will transport natural gas from Nigeria to Equatorial Guinea for processing, further...
AFRICA’S ENERGY SECTOR TO LITIGATE BANKS AND FINANCIERS FOR FINANCIAL APARTHEID
The withdrawal of Western financial support from Africa’s oil and gas sector, coupled with ...
HAS THE FORWARD MOMENTUM IN CAMEROON OIL & GAS SECTOR STALLED?
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber From all accounts, it looks like Ca...
NO MORE DELAYS ON SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW OIL AND GAS LAWS
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber Within the last few months, there&r...
TO STEM INVESTMENT ELSEWHERE, NIGERIA’S OIL SECTOR REQUIRES CHANGE
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber Nigeria, a previous bright spot on ...
ACQUISITION APPROVAL DELAYS: THE WRONG LOOK FOR NIGERIA
The Nigerian government needs to step up its game regarding approvals for indigenous companies ac...
WIND ENERGY INSIGHTS: Q&A WITH REBECCA WILLIAMS
Rebecca Williams is Chief Strategy Officer for Offshore Wind at the Global Wind Energy Counci...
Q&A: TRENDS IN ACTIVITY ON THE NORWEGIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF
Director General Torgeir Stordal shares his thoughts on the trends in activity on the Norwegi...
OFFSHORE ENERGIES UK RESPONDS TO SNP ELECTION MANIFESTO
The leading trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) today responds to the launch of the SNP’...
ENERGY COMPANY SHARES TUMBLE AS LABOUR ANNOUNCES 'DOUBLE HAMMERING' OF NORTH SEA
North Sea energy companies have seen shares plummet following the publication of Labour&rsquo...
OEUK RESPONDS TO LIBERAL DEMOCRAT MANIFESTO
The leading trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) responds to the launch of the Liberal Democrat...
OEUK RESPOND TO LABOUR'S GREAT BRITISH ENERGY PLANS
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) comments after the Labour leaders addressed their party in Scotland. ...
A POINT OF VIEW: IF OIL DISAPPEARED TOMORROW…
Article by HE Haitham Al Ghais, OPEC Secretary General If oil disappeared tomorrow, there ...
TIME FOR A RESET IN OFFSHORE WIND TO CAPTURE ITS TRUE VALUE TO THE UK
Tony Quinn, Test Facilities Director at ORE Catapult Greater recognition of technical chal...
AFRICAN COUNTRIES MUST FAST TRACK NATURAL GAS APPROVALS
African Countries Must Fast Track Natural Gas Approvals — Gas Production Is Better than...
AFRICA’S ENERGY INDUSTRY SEEING PROMISING M&A DEALS, DISCOURAGING PROJECT DELAYS
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in Africa’s oil and gas industry has been a bit...
AFRICA’S NATURAL GAS SECTOR IS BUILDING MOMENTUM IN 2024
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber The recently signed liquefied natur...
AFRICA MUST SET THE TIMING FOR ITS ENERGY TRANSITION, WHETHER THE WORLD LIKES...
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber About a year ago, before COP27 began in...
NATURAL GAS IS KEY TO A JUST AFRICAN ENERGY TRANSITION
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber It would be an understatement to sa...
TROUBLING PLEDGES: PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLY, FUTURE
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber As we embark upon the 28th session of t...
PM: WANT A NET ZERO THAT IS PROPORTIONATE & PRAGMATIC? DOUBLE DOWN, GO FURTHE...
By Dan McGrail, Chief Executive Officer, RenewableUK The weekend before last I went to a f...
A CONVERSATION WITH COLETTE COHEN OBE
In the latest episode of their TransitionTalks podcast, NZTC are joined by their former CEO Colet...
RESPONSIBLE UK OIL AND GAS FOR AN ORDERLY TRANSITION
Graham Goffey, Skills Chair – Subsurface Task Force/founder - Soliton Resources Ltd. ...
SUBSTANCE MUST MATCH UP WITH SENTIMENT ON LABOUR DRILLING PLANS
The UK offshore energy industry has repeated its call for the Labour party to meet and listen to ...
UK ENERGY MARKET PIVOTS TOWARD RENEWABLES AMID RUSSIAN SANCTIONS AND FOSSIL F...
Offshore wind leads renewables surge as UK pushes for energy security and low-carbon power, says ...
PAUSE TO DANISH OFFSHORE WIND SCHEME IS ABSURD
The Danish Government has put on hold Denmark’s "open door" offshore wind develop...
CALLS FOR NEW WINDFALL TAXES ON GLOBAL PROFITS ARE MISLEADING, SAYS OEUK
Reuters and others have reported calls by opposition politicians and union leaders for another in...
DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS COULD BE A WIN-WIN IN 2023 FOR AFRICA OIL AND GAS
In late 2019, as the African oil and gas industry was looking to the future with optimism, Offsho...
THREE THEMES TO SHAPE SCOTTISH AQUACULTURE IN 2023
Heather Jones, CEO, Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) Over the past 12 mont...
IOGP CEO IMAN HILL REFLECTS ON 2022
IOGP CEO, Iman Hill From the energy security challenge caused by the Russia-Ukraine confli...
OEUK: UK GOVERNMENT MUST SCRAP THE WINDFALL TAX IF OIL AND GAS PRICES DECLINE
The UK’s leading offshore energy producers are to meet with senior Treasury ministers and o...
BULGARIA HAS A SERIOUS POTENTIAL FOR DEEP GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Nikola Sechkaryov, Bulgarian Geothermal Energy Association (BAGE) If I have to be as short...
GROUNDWATER’S ROLE IN THE CURRENT DROUGHT
Groundwater can play a vital part in keeping the UK’s water supply flowing, but we need to ...
SNORRE - IS THE GLASS HALF-EMPTY OR HALF-FULL?
Thanks to various measures, recoverable resources on Snorre have almost tripled compared with...
GET SET FOR DECADES OF SEA LEVEL RISE, STUDIES WARN
Primary Author: Tim Radford The small glaciers of Greenland are shrinking faster than ever. In...
BORIS JOHNSON ACCUSED OF BEING IN DENIAL OF ENERGY COST CRISIS
Net Zero Watch has branded the government’s energy security strategy an exercise in magical...
HOW EUROPE CAN CUT NATURAL GAS IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA SIGNIFICANTLY WITHIN A YEAR
IEA provides 10-Point Plan to European Union for reducing reliance on Russian supplies by over a ...
GLOBAL RESPONSE TO INVASION OF UKRAINE AND WIDESPREAD IMPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY...
Analysis by Energy Workforce SVP Government Affairs & Counsel, Tim Tarpley As the Russ...
WINDFALL TAX ON OIL AND GAS WILL NOT SOLVE ENERGY CRISIS
OGA's Chairman, Tim Eggar, gave the following op-ed in the Daily Telegraph: "Brit...
UNLOCK THE ELEPHANT AND A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE AWAITS
Dr. Will Pettitt, Executive Director, Geothermal Rising As the international community gat...
ALGIERS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE OIL OUTLOOK
Each year the release of the World Oil Outlook (WOO) is a signature event on the OPEC calendar, d...
BORIS JOHNSON’S RENEWABLES FANTASIES ARE A NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM
Dr John Constable, GWPF Energy Editor There is a clear danger that the growing reliance on int...
UK’S NORTH SEA GAS RESERVES COULD BUFFER CONSUMERS AGAINST ENERGY SHORTAGES
Global demand for gas will rise for the next two decades but the UK’s North Sea resources c...
THE UK IS WORKING TO BRING OFFSHORE WIND HOME
Article source: Energy Institute For all its success in playing host to offshore wind farm...
BACK OUT IN THE FIELD WITH TROMINO
Steve Thorpe, Geospatial data specialist and lead driller, BGS, discusses returning to field...
STEPHANIE NWOKO REFLECTS ON ROLE AS AN AAPG EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
At the end of her two year term, Stephanie Nwoko, Lead Reservoir Geologist/Geomodeler at Premier ...
GEOSCIENTISTS WILL BE THE BACKBONE OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION
By Heather Saucier, Explorer Correspondent, AAPG The future for a petroleum geoscientist m...
COMING OUT OF LOCKDOWN IS A BIT LIKE COMING OUT OF HIBERNATION
Neil Gordon, CEO of Subsea UK When the pandemic hit, we had no idea of what lay ahead. No ...
DECARBONISING SUPPLY CHAINS – A LOW COST CLIMATE SOLUTION?
Imagine if we could cut carbon emissions from global supply chains by 40% with technology we ...
HOW SCOTTISH WHISKY IS FUELLING THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Following the announcement of the state-of-the-art Green Hydrogen Hub in the Cromarty Firth a...
TIME TO FOCUS ON SCOTLAND’S LOW CARBON ENERGY FUTURE
Jean Morrison, Chair of AREG I thought that it would be timely to reflect on AREG’s ...
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: FACING UP TO THE CHALLENGES OF MAKING REAL CHANGE
Dr Ollie Folayan, chairman of Aberdeen-based AFBE-UK Scotland The American novelist and ac...
AUSTRALIA’S NATURAL GAS THE ANSWER TO CLIMATE SUMMIT GOALS
Opinion piece by APPEA Chief Executive Andrew McConville Imagine a world with no warmth for cl...
LOUISE KINGHAM SHARES SOME RELECTIONS ON THE ENERGY INSTITUTE, THE ORGANISATI...
From Energy World April 2021 by Energy Institute magazines As she bids a fond farewell to ...
WHY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS MUST BE EXPLICITLY ANTI-RACIST
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, ...
IOGP: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT OIL AND GAS
We’re living in a world where, as the 1960s pop artist Andy Warhol predicted, we can all ha...
MEET THE APPRENTICE: SOPHIE EWEN
Sophie Ewen started the Oil & Gas Apprenticeship Programme (OGTAP) in 2016, following the Pro...
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.....
Iman Hill, Executive Director at IOGP One plus one equals two. The earth is not flat. The ...
3 QUESTIONS…. ON GEOMATICS
Lucyna (Lucy) Kryla-Straszewska, IOGP Geomatics and Metocean Manager, describes the work of t...
BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO IMPACT OFS
Analysis from PESA Vice President Government Affairs Tim Tarpley On Wednesday, Joseph R. B...
EXPECT ANOTHER YEAR OF ‘INNOVATION IN MOTION’ FROM THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
By Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association There is no doub...
2020: AN IMPLAUSIBLE YEAR – BUT LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE
By Dr Ollie Folayan, of AFBE-UK Scotland The Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once...
SUBSEA UK REVIEW AND LOOK AHEAD
Subsea UK CEO Neil Gordon on the year ahead It goes without saying that this has been a ye...
GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN AFRICA
The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the largest rifts in the world. Characterised by a ...
PESA AND API PRESIDENTS COMMENT ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
PESA President Leslie Beyer made the following statement in response to the second presidential d...
CHINA’S WIND INDUSTRY IS AT A TURNING POINT
By Wanliang Liang, China Director, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Despite initial setba...
CORPORATE PROCUREMENT AS A NEW GROWTH DRIVER FOR WIND ENERGY IN ASIA
Joyce Lee, Policy and Operations Director, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) The shift of ...
RENEWABLES IN ASIA: IT’S A TOUGH RACE AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented shock to the global economy. It has also stif...
CAN OIL AND ITS OPPONENTS FIND COMMON GROUND?
If we’re smart, thoughtful and collaborative, we can find solutions that deliver a sustaina...
‘WE MUST ENGINEER THE FUTURE ENERGY SYSTEM’: PROF SIR JIM MCDONALD DELIVERS F...
Accelerating the energy transition will require ‘collaboration, vision, courage and bol...
THE POWER OF CONNECTING EDUCATION TO LIFE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Catherine Reheis-Boyd is the President of the Western States Petroleum There’s a fam...
NATURAL GAS CAN POWER HYDROGEN FUTURE
APPEA welcomes the announcement that the Australian Government will advance the development o...
COMMENTARY: 10 DEVELOPMENTS THAT WILL SHAPE AFRICA’S ENERGY SECTOR IN 2019
After a year of rebound and recovery, Africa’s old and new hydrocarbons markets have an...
IEA OIL MARKET REPORT: A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT
Last month, we asked if there was a floor under prices following the signing of a new Vienna ...
IS GHANA READY TO STAND ON ITS OWN TWO FEET?
Souhir Mzali Africa Regional Editor, Oxford Business Group With the scheduled ...
NPD HIGHLIGHTS IMPRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION ACTIVITY ON THE NORWEGI...
An impressive 20 development projects are currently under way on the Norwegian Shelf, and 13 expl...