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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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Exploration

Landmark: TotalEnergies set to spud second exploration well ever drilled offshore Lebanon

Published  18 August 2023 8:44 GMT
Exploration

Partner in huge Namibia oil discovery heads for exit — could stake be worth $1.7 billion?

Published  17 August 2023 7:45 GMT
Safety

One dead, three missing after drilling barge tragedy in Nigeria

Published  16 August 2023 7:42 GMT
Exploration

New North Africa oil discovery unlocks ‘major potential’

Published  15 August 2023 15:03 GMT
Finance

US player in $700 million Eagle Ford exit — all eyes on ‘rock, returns and runway’

Published  14 August 2023 15:18 GMT
Exploration

Equinor fixes Fredriksen rig for vital 2024 exploration campaign in Canada

Published  14 August 2023 10:51 GMT
Exploration

Exploration milestone: Ecopetrol unearths new oil and gas discovery with ‘a great competitive advantage’

Published  11 August 2023 12:58 GMT
LNG

Tor Olav Troim’s Golar LNG signs breakthrough deal for multiple FLNG units in Africa

Published  10 August 2023 11:25 GMT
Exclusive

Subsea damage delays ONGC’s $5 billion flagship deep-water project

Published  8 August 2023 17:42 GMT
Politics

Bitter legal battle between Chad and Savannah barrels on after court decision

Published  7 August 2023 3:56 GMT
Exploration

Namibia wake-up call: Independent quits world’s hottest oil-exploration nation

Published  4 August 2023 12:17 GMT
Exclusive

TotalEnergies talks anew to FPSO players on Angola project

Published  4 August 2023 5:44 GMT
Field Development

Saipem wins landmark $1.75 billion contract for Black Sea project

Published  3 August 2023 16:58 GMT
Field Development

BP eyes new subsea scheme at US oilfield with ‘stunning’ production performance

Published  3 August 2023 15:06 GMT
Safety

Fatality narrowly avoided at ExxonMobil-linked offshore oil and gas platform

Published  3 August 2023 12:37 GMT
Finance

ConocoPhillips profits plunge despite record production levels

Published  3 August 2023 12:01 GMT
Politics

Eni ends nine-year force majeure on Libyan gas assets

Published  3 August 2023 11:01 GMT
Field Development

Canadian junior wraps up Turkish gas campaign days after entering oil-prone play

Published  3 August 2023 4:46 GMT
Environment

ExxonMobil-led consortium fined by Canadian authorities over 2019 oil spill

Published  2 August 2023 13:25 GMT
Field Development

‘Its time has come’: BP revives huge offshore US project mothballed after 2014 oil price crash

Published  2 August 2023 13:22 GMT
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