Special reports

New research commissioned by GL Noble Denton reveals senior oil and gas professionals’ confidence, priorities and fears for 2013.

International Process Plants, USA, describes the benefits of a peak shaving plant.

Except for Mexico, natural gas, and indeed all hydrocarbons, has been largely ignored in Central America. However, the region could nevertheless hold tremendous potential, suggests Gordon Cope, Contributing Editor.

Gregory H. Boyce, chairman and CEO of Peabody Energy, US, takes a look at the long-term outlook for coal and explains why there are reasons to be optimistic.

Michel Myhre-Nielsen, Statoil, Norway, provides an outlook for the European gas market, focusing on the political, supply and demand issues that are the driving forces in the region.

Rising LNG prices, almost stagnant liquefaction capacity amid expanding regasification capacity and development of LNG export framework in the USA could prove significant for the LNG industry.

A quick round up of the latest downstream oil and gas processing news from the Americas.

Deloitte has released its Tracking the Trends 2013, highlighting the top ten challenges facing the global mining industry next year. These include rising costs, managing demand uncertainty and growing resource nationalism.

A new US government report has added to the chorus currently predicting a new era of American world energy dominance.

Kirk K. Van Tine, Partner, Jessica Fore, Senior Associate, and Kyle Wamstad, Associate, Baker Botts, L.L.P., USA, explain pipeline safety and risk assessment developments in the US.

A year of variation, economic troubles and a wealth of enterprises. Dr. Hooman Peimani provides a global report on pipeline activity in 2012.

The second installment of the TROLEXPERT column looks at the importance of gas and environmental monitoring in mine refuge chambers.