South Africa
Industry
Australia's BHP Billiton is planning to start drilling for gas offshore the west coast of South Africa, according to remarks made by a South African official.
2010-05-25Industry
Russian gas giant Gazprom is close to reaching a deal with Anglo-Irish explorer Tullow Oil to enter the Kudu gas-to-power project in Namibia. The deal would mark Gazprom's first...
2010-03-10Industry
Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell has been awarded a licence to study shale gas extraction in the onshore Karoo Basin in central South Africa. Shell's move is the latest sign of...
2009-12-17Industry
consortium of US independent Chesapeake Energy, Norway's Statoil and Johannesburg-based Sasol has made a joint application to the South African hydrocarbons regulator to explore...
2009-11-26Industry
The BMI oil supply and demand assumptions for 2009 and beyond have again been revised for all 67 countries forming part of our detailed coverage, reflecting the changing macroeconomic...
2009-10-20Industry
Oil market fundamentals remain unattractive. Demand refuses to recover. The US driving season was a non-starter, with gasoline consumption much lower than had been hoped. Industrial...
2009-08-17Industry
In spite of oil prices continuing to trend higher and a mood of inexplicable optimism in the oil markets, we are sticking with our existing assumptions for 2009 and beyond. Talk of...
2009-05-28Industry
The merchants of doom predicting a continuing decline in oil prices will have been frustrated in the opening quarter of 2009. While macroeconomic news has indeed been consistently...
2009-04-08


