All articles by Chris Lo

India and Iran lead on global urea capacity additions

GlobalData’s latest report states that the global urea capacity is poised to see considerable growth over the upcoming years, potentially…
Revamped Kishorn Port hosts an offshore titan

All images courtesy of Kishorn Port Ltd On 15 January 2019, an offshore titan arrived at Kishorn Port on Scotland’s…
UK North Sea outlook: the truth behind the numbers

Like any offshore region, it has been a trying few years for the UK North Sea since the devastating oil…
Oil strikes: the North Sea’s summer of discontent

In many ways, summer 2018 looks like a season of promise for the North Sea oil and gas industry. Rewinding…
Decommissioning North Sea platforms: should we let sleeping giants lie?

For the UK, the prospect of offshore decommissioning in the North Sea has become something of an ominous cloud on…

US gas production will continue to grow into 2021

GlobalData’s latest analysis of US natural gas production expects the country’s production to grow to 86 billion cubic feet per…
Timeline: game-changing gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean

Unlike the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea has always been better known for stunning climate,…
Jumping ship: Danish giants pull out of the oil industry

Given that the last few years have seen an inversion of the traditional clean/dirty energy dynamic, with renewable technologies dropping…
Targeting neutral: big oil and the carbon dilemma

With the Paris Agreement entering into force late last year, the global fight against climate change has reached a milestone…
Is privatisation working out for Mexico’s oil industry?

For many decades, the oil industry has been of great symbolic as well as economic significance to Mexico. Since 1938,…