Equinor set out a strategy to grow production by 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to 2.3 million boe/d by 2030, lifting Norwegian continental shelf output to 1.35 million boe/d and growing international oil and gas by 30 percent to about 950,000 boe/d. It guided to capital expenditure of ar
Eni's satellite model splits one customer into several separately governed buyers. Here is why that reshapes procurement, and how suppliers should sell into the constellation.
Is the dual exploration model unique to Eni? The mechanic — selling a stake in a proven discovery to recycle capital — is a common farm-down. What is unique to Eni is running it as a deliberate, repeatable strategy from the operator’s seat. Who else does it, and how their versions differ.
Treat market entry as a staged, evidence-led build, not a launch. Pick one high-potential beachhead segment rather than going broad, localise the proposition to the region's procurement culture, regulation and proof requirements instead of just translating copy, and secure a credible local reference
The best public estimates put China's total crude inventories near 1.4 billion barrels entering 2026, of which roughly 360 million barrels sit in the government-held strategic reserve and around 1 billion barrels in commercial stocks. There is no official figure, so every number is a reconstruction. Here is how the barrel count is built, which layer holds what, and how it compares to the US reserve.
In March 2026 the International Energy Agency authorised the largest emergency oil release in its history, 400 million barrels, to steady a market reeling from a disruption to the Strait of Hormuz. This dossier traces the root cause of the shock, explains how coordinated reserve action actually works, weighs whether it was enough, and asks what a quarter that turned strategic stocks from background insurance into front-line policy means for the future of energy security and for anyone who buys, sells or plans around oil.
IKTVA (Saudi Aramco) and ICV (UAE) are the Gulf local-content programmes that score suppliers on in-country value and weight that score in tender evaluation. What they are, how the scores are built, and how suppliers win.
XRG is the international investment company ADNOC launched in November 2024 to take Abu Dhabi’s energy capital global, now valued above 150 billion dollars across gas, chemicals and lower-carbon energy.
China holds an estimated 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil across government and commercial storage, enough for roughly 120 to 130 days of import cover, well beyond the 90-day benchmark the International Energy Agency sets for its members. But the headline number is harder to pin down than it looks, because Beijing publishes nothing and the way you count changes the answer. Here is how the days-of-supply figure is built, why estimates disagree, and what the 2026 stress test revealed about the stockpile's real purpose.
An energy asset acquisition risk assessment is the structured due diligence a buyer runs to price every liability attached to a producing field, terminal or portfolio before committing capital. With around 240 billion dollars of oil and gas changing hands in 2025 and roughly seven in ten deals failing to create value, the discipline is no longer optional. Here is the framework, the risk categories that decide the price, and the evidence buyers should demand.
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