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For years the availability of cheap and abundant oil has meant that the development of the country’s natural gas reserves has only recently come to the fore. However, growing demand for power and water generation, environmental concerns, advances in technology and the rising price of oil have combined to make the extraction and processing of this...

How has the Gulf of Mexico spill affected the industry’s approach to innovative drilling?

Nearly two-thirds of the investment spending identified in the country’s five-year development plan, some KD20bn ($72.1bn), has been earmarked for the oil sector. The expenditure of these funds is largely geared towards expanding production capacity from around 3.15m barrels per day (bpd) to 3.5m bpd by 2015 and 4m bpd by 2020. This investment could...

In late February, the Philippine’s Department of Energy announced it was forging ahead with plans to offer 15 offshore territories to foreign investors for oil and gas exploration. The secretary of energy, Jose Almendras, said the government hoped to award contracts to the winning bidders this month, underscoring the government’s desire for work to begin as soon as possible.
Change is in the air for Malaysia’s power sector, with recent developments including bids on new facilities and change of ownership for old ones. Government oversight has also been evolving, throwing up questions about what the sector’s make up will be in the near term.

Chapter | Energy from The Report: Kuwait 2012

With oil still very much the backbone of its economy, Kuwait is looking to expand production. State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has approved $90bn worth of spending on the oil and gas industry up to 2015. Indeed, gas has sizeable potential, since Kuwait currently produces less than 1% of its proven reserves of natural gas. Increasing this amount will translate into both financial and...

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