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Iain Esau

Iain Esau has been reporting on Africa, Europe and Canada for Upstream since 2000, having started his oil and gas journalism career with Offshore Engineer in 1988 followed by a four-year stint at Lloyd’s List.

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Politics

Alberta boosts oil export potential as Canada wrestles with pipeline expansion problems

Published  11 March 2025 17:36 GMT
Exploration

'Substantial discovery': Nigeria exploration well hits 1000 feet of oil and gas-bearing sands

Published  11 March 2025 12:36 GMT
Safety

Potentially fatal incident on Canada FPSO under investigation

Published  11 March 2025 11:53 GMT
Exploration

BP set to bag stake in frontier licence offshore Israel

Published  11 March 2025 10:17 GMT
Politics

Oil-rich South Sudan 'on precipice' of new civil war

Published  10 March 2025 13:58 GMT
Finance

Revived Savannah wraps up $35 million Nigeria acquisition

Published  10 March 2025 11:41 GMT
Exploration

South American focus for 2025 explorers, but concern flares over lack of global seismic data

Published  7 March 2025 13:23 GMT
Exploration

'Substantial' Gabon discovery triggers price surge in partners' stock

Published  7 March 2025 9:39 GMT
Finance

Canadian Natural sets new output record, but lower oil prices hit quarterly profit

Published  6 March 2025 13:51 GMT
Politics

Peace deal threatened: South Sudan's oil minister and opposition general arrested

Published  6 March 2025 10:42 GMT
Exploration

Libya launches bid round in move to drive output to 2 million bpd

Published  5 March 2025 17:15 GMT
Politics

Why Trump’s Venezuela shift spells trouble for Caribbean nation’s offshore gas operations

Published  4 March 2025 15:37 GMT
Exploration

UK player's share price rises 6% on Alaska update

Published  3 March 2025 16:33 GMT
Exploration

Eni in talks for new exploration licence in hot West Africa play

Published  3 March 2025 14:52 GMT
Field Development

Ivory Coast decision sets seal on $1 billion spend on FPSO revamp and new wells

Published  3 March 2025 12:51 GMT
Exploration

Vaalco Energy snaps up prospective ultra-deepwater Ivory Coast block

Published  3 March 2025 8:08 GMT
Politics

Canada's top E&P association lays out energy blueprint as federal election nears

Published  28 February 2025 17:30 GMT
Politics

Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline set to re-open within 'hours', oil minister claims

Published  28 February 2025 13:19 GMT
Exploration

Eni's upstream boss reveals juicy detail on Namibia discovery

Published  28 February 2025 11:31 GMT
Finance

Eni eyes 2.1 million boepd production target for 2030

Published  27 February 2025 15:28 GMT
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