Latest Free Stories:

A selection of recent top stories from Energy Intelligence Group publications:

Gazprom Blinks
World Gas Intelligence (Wednesday, February 24, 2010)

Kuwaiti Gas Deal Reopens Door to IOC Entry
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (Monday, March 1, 2010)

Saudi Arabia: Rethinking the Special Relationship
Energy Compass (Friday, February 26, 2010)

Iraq Interview:

Al-Maliki: Iraq Ready To Step Up (July 2008)
An exclusive interview with Iraq's prime minister on oil policy and security issues.

Wanda Jablonski:

Wanda Jablonski: Queen Of The Oil Club (June 2008)
This article is an excerpt from the recently released biography of the founder of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, the woman who virtually invented international oil journalism.

Corporate Ranking:

PIW Ranks The World's Top Oil Companies (December 2009)
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly's annual ranking of the world's 50 largest oil companies, a perennial benchmark survey recognized industry-wide, is the leading source of comparative performance assessments on all the world's oil companies.

Corporate Earnings:

Record Oil Prices Lift Majors' Earnings (August 2008)
Each quarter, Oil Daily publishes a detailed supplement on the profits and performance of US and international oil companies. This article looks at the biggest integrated firms.

Geopolitics:

Perspective: Two Decades of Turmoil (January 2010)
This article in Energy Compass reflects on oil markets and geopolitics since the publication's launch in 1990.

Perspective: Middle Easts, Old and New (October 2009)
This article from Energy Compass is based on a speech by Ghassan Salame at the Oil & Money conference.

Perspective: Energy Independence in an Interdependent World (June 2009)
Perspective: A Serious US Energy Policy (January 2009)
Perspective: Advice for Obama (November 2008)
Perspective: A More Modest America (November 2008)
Perspective: A 'Blue-Sky' View of US Policy (November 2008)
This collection of articles from Energy Compass explores options for US policy under the Obama administration.

Resource Nationalism:

These two articles from Petroleum Intelligence Weekly explore the drivers behind the resurgence of nationalist policies in producing countries.

The Multiple Faces Of Resource Nationalism (February 2007)
Resource Nationalism: Then And Now (January 2007)

Saudi Arabia's Future:

These three articles from Petroleum Intelligence Weekly cover the debate over Saudi Arabia's future oil production potential, the end of "easy oil," and the implications for "peak oil" theory:

Midlife Saudis Look Beyond Giant Fields (December 2006)
Saudi Arabia's Oil Supply: Conjecture And Reality (June 2006)
Twilight In The Desert -- Doubting Saudi Oil Potential (June 2005)

CEO Interviews:

Interviews with top industry chief executives are regularly published in EIG publications such as Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, World Gas Intelligence and International Petroleum Finance:

Total's Christophe de Margerie (November 2009)
BP's Tony Hayward (October 2009)
Iraq's Hussein al-Shahristani (May 2009)
Petrobras' Jose Sergio Gabrielli (February 2009)
Eni's Paolo Scaroni (December 2008)
Suncor's Rick George (November 2008)
Pertamina's Ari Soemarno (November 2008)
KPC's Saad al-Shuwaib (February 2008)
Tullow Oil's Aidan Heavey (January 2008)

Kuwait's Oil Reserves:

Petroleum Intelligence Weekly rocked the industry in 2006 by reporting that Kuwait's oil reserves could be far lower than officially stated. The report fueled demands for more transparency, particularly in Mideast Gulf states.

Oil Reserves Accounting: The Case Of Kuwait (January 2006)

Natural Gas Prices

North American Daily Natural Gas Prices
A daily summary of the North American Natural Gas spot markets.

Publication Methodologies

Natural Gas Week's Price Reporting Methodology

Oil Market Intelligence -- Tracking Global Oil Supply

The Methodology Of PIW's Price Scorecard

Uranium Intelligence Weekly -- Uranium Price Index Methodology

WGI European Border Price Methodology

World Gas Intelligence -- Natural Gas Conversion Factors

Glossary Of Energy Terms
A glossary of key oil market terms and expressions, which helps determine the exact meanings of some of the specialized language used in EIG publications. This glossary is extracted from The International Crude Oil Handbook, 2007.

The World's Key Crude Oils
A listing of key internationally traded crude oils, including data on volume, specifications, loading ports and production volumes. This table appears in The International Crude Oil Handbook, 2009. For more information on this report, click here.

Calendar Of Industry Events
A useful listing of relevant upcoming conferences. (EIG does not necessarily endorse events posted on this page site, nor does EIG take responsibility for any changes, omissions or cancellations of such events.)

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