Oil & Gas IQ Glossary: Mega Project

The super-merger of the year so far unites two giants in the service provider space as they embrace the digital revolution When General Electric announced its merger with Baker Hughes, it signalled t...

The headstone of the oil and gas megaproject is being etched as you read these words…. In a world that has seen the price of a barrel of the Black Gold nosedive by more than 60 per cent i...

By their nature, mega projects are funded by well-resourced organisations. Typically, funding security has allowed some elasticity for overruns and the associated cost, which recent experience has ill...

Prospective megaprojects in design – a combined group of over $400bn by most estimates – have now been postponed, re-phased, re-cycled or cancelled. Fueled by high oil prices for over a de...

In June 2014, even when Brent prices were collapsing, the industry still did not believe that they could fall below US$50, but as the supply surplus grew, prices continued to drop. Early in 2015, the...

The oil and gas megaproject industry knows how to be profitable even when prices drop below £40/bbl. But ten years of high oil prices has caused a greater than doubling of supply chain costs, an...

The slump in oil prices has seen a tailing-off in the number of megaprojects - major infrastructure projects that cost more than $1 billion – on the drawing board throughout the energy industry....

In this edition of The Boardroom, we speak to Edward W. Merrow, founder and CEO of Independent Project Analysis, Inc about the startling number of megaprojects that do not hit the mark in the oil and...

In this exclusive podcast for Oil and Gas IQ, Tim Haðdar speaks with Giorgio Locatelli, Member of EU Megaproject Initiative and Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. In the course of his i...

In this edition of The Boardroom, we speak to Edward W. Merrow, founder and CEO of Independent Project Analysis, Inc about the startling number of megaprojects that do not hit the mark in the oil and...

Oil and Gas Production Content Series Although the current trend in investment offers many opportunities to EPC contractors, there are plenty of challenges that must be addressed whilst executing the...

With a downturn in economic fortunes the world over and pressures on carbon emission reduction, where is the future of shipping headed? In this exclusive interview, we speak with Professor Jùrg...