Latest Free Stories:

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

Mexico Importing And Flaring More Gas
World Gas Intelligence (Wednesday, July 23, 2008)

Exotic Options Behind Much Recent Volatility
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (Monday, July 28, 2008)

Iraq: The Sunni Agenda
Energy Compass (Friday, July 25, 2008)

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 2007)
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:

Majors' Earnings Dip, Hindered by Poor Margins in Third Quarter (November 2007)
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: A Changing Script (January 2008)
This article from Energy Compass looks at geopolitical issues facing the oil market in 2008.

Perspective: A Dangerous World (June 2007)
This article from the relaunch issue of Energy Compass reviews the major geopolitical issues facing the industry in 2007.

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:

KPC's Saad al-Shuwaib (February 2008)
Tullow Oil's Aidan Heavey (January 2008)
The International Energy Agency's Nobuo Tanaka (November 2007)
Petrobras' Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo (November 2007)
Pertamina's Ari Soemarno (September 2007)
TNK-BP's Robert Dudley (September 2007)
ConocoPhillips' James Mulva (June 2007)
Tom O'Malley: Turning Petroplus Around (February 2007)
Eni's Paolo Scaroni: The Paradox Of Plenty (December 2006)

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, 2007. 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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