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Third Party Certification of Natural Gas in North America

Article Energy Transition, Featured, North America, Northam Energy Capital Assembly

If a gas producer adheres to emissions reductions and ESG regulations, they can obtain a Responsibly Sourced Gas (RGS) certificate. This means a company has produced a premium product, one that is actively seeking to reduce GHG emissions through integrating more efficient processes, reducing or stopping gas flaring and powering production with renewables – with the intention to reach net-zero emissions.

Analysis on M&A so far in 2021 and what to expect now

Article Exploration & Production, Featured, Investment & Finance

The global oil and gas markets have been awash with deals as oil and gas players alike scramble to rebalance their portfolios in light of supranational climate goals. While the market has not been as active in the second half of 2021, as commodity prices began to stabilise toward pre-Covid levels, there were still a number of significant mergers and acquisitions that will add much needed liquidity to the markets.

Deep Dive Into The US M&A Market

Article Featured, Investment & Finance, North America

The North American oil and gas market maintained their position as ‘most active region’, in terms of both the quantity of deals and the total transaction values – leading to a total of 21 deals to the value of $12.72bn being confirmed in Q1/2021.
Since the close of Q1, a further 21 deals to the value of $21.1bn have been processed in the North American market, indicating that the shale patch is beginning to undergo another round of consolidation. The Energy Council has taken a look at some highlights of US M&A activity so far this year…

6 Months On – How Has Biden’s Presidency Impacted The South American Oil & Gas Industry

Article Energy & Renewables, Energy Transition, Featured, North America, South America

Latin America has historically been the recipient of vast attention by successive US administrations, seeing the South American nations as proxies to fight international disagreements. Yet in recent years, their regional neighbours have fallen down the pecking order of foreign policy concerns, even more so under former President Trump’s isolationist ‘America First’ policies. In lieu of direct US-influence, corporate actors have been lobbying South American governments to expand and liberalise their energy sectors with the intention of developing competitive markets in the natural gas and renewable energy generation sectors.

Exploration updates across the region, what’s new in Suriname and Guyana?

Article Exploration & Production, Featured, South America

On the northern edge of South America, nestled between South America’s oil and gas giants are the nations of Suriname and Guyana. Their resources have historically been somewhat limited and their GDPs’ commiserate with limited economic activity, however the recent oil and gas discoveries offshore their waters has injected hope into these neighbouring economies.

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Jose Penafiel

Meet The Speaker Featured

Latin America has rightly been identified as a region that has tremendous potential. There are many basins which have been underexplored and contain large potential conventional prizes to be claimed.

Vance Querio, CEO, Oryx Petroleum

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The MSGBC Basin is an attractive region to do business for a number of reasons. Most importantly the basins geologic characteristics provide the potential for sizable discoveries of hydrocarbons as demonstrated by a number of operators already.

Bertrand Montembault, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Executive Interview Featured

As a firm we have also invested heavily in technology and innovation over the past few years, and a continuing priority is to ensure that we harness the developments in technology and digitalization to continue to drive efficiencies and innovation in the provision of our legal services.

EPEUS – Which one was yours and why will the next one be better?

Expert Insight Featured

Based on our own analysis, explorers, especially small independent oil companies, are still struggling to find potential investors for their projects. The current oil prices and its uncertainties have made the struggle even harder than what it was pre-2014.

Sean Guest

Meet The Speaker Featured

Our gas-condensate discovery in Turkey created a very significant increase in our share price. It was a very exciting time as we tested the well and then were able to raise all of the capital required for our appraisal program.

Augusto Artur Antonio Da Silva, AGC

Meet The Speaker Featured

The Agency’s main objective over the next three years is the implementation of the drilling program in the AGC Central and the AGC Profound block raising a lot of interest from external companies and the AGC itself.

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