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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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Michael Lawson, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

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Being able to collaborate with the leaders of this industry to ultimately unlock new opportunities for our clients and promote innovation, development and growth in the oil & gas sector.

Keith Collins, CEO, Vestigo Petroleum

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I foresee that 2016 and 17 will be tough years for the industry so our key focus areas will be to maintain the balance between revenue and cost and only invest in projects that generate near term free cashflow.

Franck Pliya, Country Director, Senegal, TechnipFMC

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Since a couple of years, our clients are having to transform as the market is adapting. The focus is on lower field development and operations costs, quicker project life cycle, shorter schedule, reduced risk profile, all of which will improve their projects economics.

Carl Lakey, Co-CEO & COO, AAG Energy Holdings

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AAG is the leading independent CBM producer in China, focus on the development and value optimization of unconventional gas resources to supply clean energy to the Chinese economy.

Paul Ebdale, CEO, Mitra Energy

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Our current focus at Mitra is on getting to first production with the gas discoveries that have been made in the Malay Basin in Vietnam. Of the three fields, we expected to bring two onstream in 2018-19, when there will be significant capacity in the existing pipeline.

Rao Abdullah, Vice President, APAC, Halliburton

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I firmly believe that true integration and collaboration between operators and service companies is one of the largest opportunities we have and one that is required to really improve productivity at lower costs.

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