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Good Binge or Bad Binge? The Last Decade of Oil and Gas Investment

History is likely to view the last decade of conventional, mega-scale oil and gas investment as another bad commodity binge

“Well, in OUR country,’ said Alice, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else – if you ran very fast for a

The oil industry’s main narrative remains one of increasing hydrocarbon demand requiring higher levels of investment to supply it. But

Do industrial megaprojects over-run because they are badly managed, or because they are big? It’s mainly because they are big.

“In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option, I’m gonna have to science the shit out

In his major tome on Industrial Megaprojects[1] in 2011, Ed Merrow poured decades worth of empirical assessments and statistical analysis

Note: Whenever a post clearly makes a forecast, I will attempt to frame it specifically and also quantify the likelihood

As goes Exxon, so goes international oil and gas “People say ‘Well, you’re not growing’,” he said. “That just tells you

In Nature Energy’s February editorial (see details in the links section on this page) a concise and insightful summary of

The Era Of Easy Oil Is Over – The Hard Oil Era May Be Over Too In the late 1990s, a