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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

'Intriguing structures': New oil promise identified in Namibia acreage outside red hot Orange basin

Published  16 June 2023 9:33 GMT
Exploration

Eni keeps radio silence on high-profile Mozambique wildcat

Published  15 June 2023 14:21 GMT
Energy Transition

Shell eyes $100 billion for upstream and LNG this decade

Published  15 June 2023 12:34 GMT
Exploration

Shell aims to ‘move at pace’ after Namibian well test success

Published  15 June 2023 4:00 GMT
Rigs and Vessels

Big problems at BP’s African LNG project amid pipelay struggle

Published  14 June 2023 11:17 GMT
Finance

Maurel & Prom bids to acquire Gabon player as Tanzania deal founders

Published  14 June 2023 10:53 GMT
Production

Tullow may exit West Africa oilfield as it seeks to boost cash flows

Published  13 June 2023 13:58 GMT
Finance

Financially-stressed SDX receives bids for Africa assets

Published  13 June 2023 11:39 GMT
Exploration

TotalEnergies hits oil and gas in Africa exploration well

Published  13 June 2023 9:46 GMT
LNG

How TotalEnergies can bring $20 billion Mozambique LNG project back to life

Published  9 June 2023 12:58 GMT
Opinion

Senegal unrest could spell trouble for oil and gas projects in the offing

Published  8 June 2023 10:22 GMT
Safety

Potential fatality avoided on ExxonMobil platform as projectile plunges onto walkway

Published  6 June 2023 17:15 GMT
Politics

Under siege UK-listed player hits back at Chad’s latest move

Published  6 June 2023 9:30 GMT
Politics

Chad steps up drive to force UK-listed oil player out of country

Published  2 June 2023 13:58 GMT
Exploration

BP-Eni joint venture starts drilling rare exploration well in Angola

Published  2 June 2023 9:50 GMT
Politics

Namibia will not ‘seize’ stakes in current oil and gas licences, says government

Published  1 June 2023 14:38 GMT
Field Development

Equinor bombshell to delay Canada oil project sees politicians vent anger

Published  1 June 2023 12:09 GMT
Field Development

Equinor shocks oil market by shelving critical Canada project for three years

Published  31 May 2023 15:54 GMT
Field Development

Chevron submits gas development plan to Cyprus government

Published  31 May 2023 11:45 GMT
LNG

Golar LNG in talks with up to six players in FLNG expansion push

Published  31 May 2023 10:56 GMT
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