In the past few years, Ecuador has experienced a dramatic economic recovery that has made the nation’s economy become the seventh largest on the continent.  Whilst the policies of the country’s government have directly contributed to Ecuador’s econ...

Strong organic growth, business integrity and community relations. It’s difficult to know which is more important of all these cornerstones when talking to Surong Bulakul, the boss of Thai Oil Public Company Limited, Thailand’s biggest oil refiner, pa...

On 26 October 2011, a LontohCoal delegation, accompanied by a media contingent, descended on Richard’s Bay to witness one of the most important milestones since the founding of the company four years ago. On this particularly historic day, a cargo vesse...

YPF is Argentina’s leading energy company: it is the country’s most important producer of hydrocarbons and refined products, the largest investor, and one of the greatest generators of employment – more than 46,000 people are directly or indirectly ...

Russia’s largest petrochemical company, Sibur, operates across the entire petrochemical process chain from gas processing, production of monomers, plastics and synthetic rubbers to the processing of plastics. Over recent years the company has continued ...

With energy demand increasing more than seven percent a year, Turkey offers a prosperous future for global energy market investors. Necessary steps to establish a liberalised market are being taken in a very decisive manner. As a result, the trade volume ...

Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) has two main business areas: electricity transmission and natural gas transportation, storage and re-gasification. Both activities are developed under long-term concession contracts with the state. Portugal is among t...

A flagship refinery of PTT Plc, Thaioil has evolved since its foundation in 1961: from a petroleum refinery producing a modest 35,000 barrels a day, into Thailand’s largest oil player, with current capacity standing at 275,000 barrels a day. Despite...

Nothing excites the oil and gas industry quite like a major Russian-American collaboration: something clearly exemplified by the ExxonMobil Rosneft partnership, a deal that will deliver significant benefits to both parties. Rosneft and Russia gain access ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard described the legislation passed by Australia’s Senate as “historic,” after years campaigning for what is hoped will create a new platform for companies to trade carbon credits and cut pollution. “This is a win for tho...