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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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Field Development

Controversial TotalEnergies pipeline costs balloon to $5.65 billion

Published  29 July 2025 10:59 GMT
Exploration

Namibia block gets 666 million barrel resource estimate boost

Published  29 July 2025 9:32 GMT
Exploration

Libya picks 29 companies and eight 'investors' for 28 billion-barrel bid round

Published  28 July 2025 12:42 GMT
Production

Libya's top upstream officials hold 'extended' meeting to discuss E&P progress

Published  28 July 2025 10:57 GMT
Exploration

BW Energy confirms Namibia rig charter for exploration well

Published  28 July 2025 8:26 GMT
Field Development

Pouyanne wants alignment with Namibia government before launching huge Venus oil project

Published  28 July 2025 4:44 GMT
Safety

Seven injured in blast at exploration well site in Turkey

Published  25 July 2025 17:45 GMT
Finance

TotalEnergies eyes $3.5 billion worth of assets sales and farm-outs

Published  25 July 2025 12:09 GMT
Finance

Restart of $20 billion Mozambique LNG project may be at least two months away

Published  24 July 2025 13:39 GMT
Finance

Saipem targets $19 billion of contracts in second half of 2025

Published  24 July 2025 11:18 GMT
Finance

TotalEnergies profits hit by plunging commodity prices and rising debt

Published  24 July 2025 7:38 GMT
Field Development

TotalEnergies starts-up two new Angola projects

Published  23 July 2025 13:42 GMT
People

Former BP CEO loses bid to become next University of Cambridge chancellor

Published  23 July 2025 11:38 GMT
People

Namibia explorer unveils board departure days before frontier well starts drilling

Published  23 July 2025 9:48 GMT
People

Namibia's ex-energy minister sets up advisory firm

Published  23 July 2025 9:14 GMT
Energy Security

Sakatchewan joins Alberta and Ontario in Canada pipeline drive

Published  22 July 2025 15:13 GMT
Field Development

Indebted Tullow finalises deal to offload Kenya oil assets, but risks remain

Published  22 July 2025 14:25 GMT
Rigs and Vessels

Turkey buys two more drillships, with Erdogan hoping for more acquisitions

Published  22 July 2025 10:32 GMT
LNG

JGC confirms share of $550 million FLNG contract

Published  22 July 2025 8:53 GMT
Exploration

Nigerian indie signs Tanzania exploration deal

Published  22 July 2025 5:04 GMT
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