Special reports

While tax incentives are set to boost oil production in Malaysia, further fiscal changes are unlikely in the short term.

Dr. Duncan Clarke, Global Pacific & Partners (http://www.globalpacificpartners.com), analyses the investment risks in Africa’s oil and gas sector.

Luisa Sykes, Euro Petroleum Consultants, discusses the European refining market in 2013 and looks at how recovery in the refining sector has been postponed for another year.

Pedro Custódio, T.A. Cook Consultants, Germany, discusses why the diesel boom need not lead to refinery closures.

The second part of Douglas-Westwood’s World LNG market forecast for 2013-2017 looks at the LNG carrier market and LNG import terminals.

Part one of Douglas-Westwood’s World LNG market forecast 2013-2017.

Special report: TIG welding handbook produced by Polysoude

Ng Weng Hoong delves into the Middle East’s diverging realities: growing economies in the midst of wars and political instability.

Giacomo Rispoli, Executive Vice President of Rsearch, Development and Projects at ENI, previews the ENI presentation that can be heard in full at the ERTC 18th Annual Meeting.

Ng Weng, Hydrocarbon Engineering Contributing Editor, discusses the outlook for Asia’s LNG market.

Ng Weng, Hydrocarbon Engineering Contributing Editor, discusses the outlook for Asia’s LNG market.

Gordon Cope, Hydrocarbon Engineering Contributing Editor, outlines the negative effects of sulfur excess on the oil and gas industry and discusses possible ways to combat them.

Shahnoz Hamidi, BWA Water Additives, USA, explores new scale inhibition chemistry that gives operators better options for difficult-to-treat, HPHT environments.

From machine shop to international valve exporter

Jim Fererro, GlobaLogix, USA, presents a number of tactics that can be employed to provide better security for a oil and gas company’s SCADA system.