What motivates us to explore for oil & gas?

Friday, February 10, 2012

David Bamford writes: What motivates individuals, and especially, teams to explore for, develop and produce oil & gas? I guess like many aspiring managers, in my training I heard about Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs. So, I ask, does working in our industry offer: Safety = Security of reward, may...

Solar Fuel: The next step in recyclable fuel

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Not many research projects have grabbed the attention of the oil and gas industry more than Glasgow's solar fuel project, which aims to convert solar energy into fuels of liquid form for easy storage. The multi-million pound research scheme will work wonders for the oil and gas sector if success...

Exploration: Uganda exploration...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

One author has said "The East African Rift System is now one of the world's 'exploration hotspots', potentially just as significant for landlocked Africa and its underexplored rift systems as the Barnett Shale in Texas was to the birth of unconventional shale gas in North America.&q...

Russia versus Ukraine... again...

Monday, February 06, 2012

As the pressure of gas dropped in France, Germany and Italy, Gazprom, always quick off the mark in PR terms, accused the Ukrainians of once again siphoning supplies bound for European markets from the pipeline system. But in this case Gazprom may well have been a little too quick to cry 'wolf...

FoxDavies views from the trading floor - Sound Oil, Tullow Oil and Serica Energy

Friday, February 03, 2012

Sound Oil (LON:SOU) are one to watch for Monday, as in the previous announcement they said 'Sound Oil has been advised by the Operator that the Cataka-1 exploration well on the Citarum PSC, Java, Indonesia has encountered unstable formation in the top hole section, necessitating a sidetrack. The...