When a major LNG project is announced, attention usually goes to the headline numbers: gas reserves, production capacity, investment value and the number of LNG trains that will eventually come online. Those figures, however, describe only the most visible part of the...
A producing offshore block that has been explored for decades might seem an unlikely place to look for another discovery. Yet that is exactly what is happening in Angola. On September 9, Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) and ExxonMobil...
A barrel is often treated as the basic unit of the oil industry. But a barrel is not simply a barrel. Crude oils differ in density, sulphur content, acidity and contaminants. Those differences affect how they are transported, refined and ultimately valued in the...
A Brent price around $100 a barrel changes the conversation around offshore development, but not in the way the headline might suggest. The question is not whether every marginal field suddenly becomes commercial. It is whether projects that previously sat below an...
Real estate value is often explained through location. But location by itself says little about what a property can actually do. A parcel of land can be close to a major road, port, railway, industrial zone or power project and still struggle to attract meaningful...
Energy security is usually discussed in terms of reserves, production capacity, refining, pipelines and power generation. Ports rarely receive the same attention. Yet a significant part of the energy system depends on what happens between the ship and the shore. Crude...
