Indonesia
Industry
BMI View: The Indonesian government's proposal to reform the country's popular fuel subsidies is unlikely to be adopted by the parliament unless an alternative to expensive liberalised...
2012-01-05Industry
BP Migas has issued two 2011 licensing rounds in the hope that Indonesia can slow declining oil production and gas exports. Exploration on the new blocks could pose upside risks to...
2011-11-22Industry
BP hopes to expand the flagship Tangguh liquified natural gas (LNG) project in order to take advantage of booming regional demand for gas. Although BP is willing to invest substantially...
2011-09-29Industry
Despite issuing new licences and putting pressure on explorers, gas production remains sluggish. Rapidly rising domestic demand for gas is therefore likely to eat into gas export volumes....
2011-09-21Industry
The delay to the projected start date for the East Natuna gas project presents significant downside risk to our late-2010s gas production forecasts. The later start-up will also hit...
2011-09-06Industry
A US$7bn project led by state-run Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) to build a 175,000 barrel per day (b/d) refinery looks under threat after the company reportedly asked for additional...
2011-08-23Industry
Indonesia's upstream regulator BPMigas announced on August 10 2011 that it had approved 10 oil and gas projects with a cumulative investment of US$4.7bn.
2011-08-12Industry
BMI View: ExxonMobil's strategic move to sell all its producing gas assets in Indonesia aims to kill two birds with one stone: production at these fields is waning in an increasingly...
2011-08-11
