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Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #2 - Russia’s "Great Recession"
January 13 by Tim HaïdarA continued sub $100 per barrel oil price, combined with sanctions meted out by Western powers over the Ukraine crisis will mean that the Russia Federation slides into a deep recession in 2015. R...
Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #7 - More fatalities in the industry
January 13 by Tim HaïdarAn unfortunate consequence of the drop in oil price is the likely effect this will have on health and safety. When it becomes more important to monetise every drop coming out of the ground, it i...
Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #5 - Militarisation of the Med
January 13 by Tim HaïdarThis year we will likely see a stand off in the Mediterranean centred on disputed natural gas reserves in the Aegean and Levant. Fractious relations between cash-strapped Greece and Turkey and L...
Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #1 - Oil to be $60 or lower into H2
January 13 by Tim HaïdarThe price of Brent crude oil has plummeted by 45 per cent in recent months and there are no indications that an uptick will be on the cards in the first two quarters of 2015. Lessened demand in t...
Oil & Gas Prediction 2015 #3 - Venezuela default
January 13 by Tim HaïdarIn South America, the continent’s largest holder of hydrocarbon reserves, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is braced to default on its debt. The country depends on oil to fulfil 95 per...
Record bankruptcies and redundancies
January 13 by Tim HaïdarLower oil prices have already seen big movements in mergers and acquisitions - the prime example of which was the Q4 2014 purchase of Baker Hughes by Halliburton for $34.6 billion.
A soundtrack for an oil crash
December 16 by Tim Haïdar"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen." Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011)
Editorial: The Voice Of Science & Our Salvation In Magic
November 04 by Tim Haïdar"Science has spoken."Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1944 - ) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (1917 – 2008) As the final rep...
[INTERVIEW] At Least 10 Things That Should Keep A Patent Attorney Up At Night
October 28 by Tim HaïdarIn this interview with the Principal for Intellectual Property at oil sands operator, Cenovus Energy, we tackle a number of the key issues that are proving to be a headache for IP lawyers the industr...
Editorial: The Global Millinery Of Financial Prophecy
October 28 by Tim Haïdar"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in" - Frederick II, King of Prussia(1712 – 1786) As oil prices gravitate around the $85 per barrel mark for yet another week in succession, financ...
Editorial: Winter Is Coming - A Game Of Sheikhs And Shale
October 20 by Tim HaïdarAs winter draws in in the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures begin to drop, the price of oil and natural gas has, counterintuitively, gone in the same direction as the mercury in the thermometer....
[INFOGRAPHIC] North Dakota's Bakken By The Numbers
October 09 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorNorth Dakota has been an oil and gas producing state since 1951, but it is only recently that technology, particularly horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has unlocked the potential of the...