This week, Patricia Roberts wraps up the weekly news around the theme of “In the Hot Seat”. She covers short term gas/ LNG supply demand imbalances, rising prices, hot weather, and intentions to cut demand, but also good LNG developments on the horizon.

Julian Walker, Editor-in-Chief of Energy Connects, talks to Bjorn Otto Sverdrup, The Chair of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative's (OGCI) Executive Committee about its zero methane emissions initiative and why this represents a shift change for the oil and gas industry.

We also touch on what new technologies will play a role in n helping the industry reduce methane emissions.

The United States is the number one exporter of LNG for the year 2022, but will that sustain. In this episode, Energy Connects talks to Wayne Ackerman, a global energy expert on the future of the LNG market in North America, specifically the United States. Ackerman discusses what are the stakes for exporting further LNG to Europe as the European Union looks to decrease its dependence on Russia’s gas. The expert also discuss what the future of the LNG market looks like as the American continent exports more.

We spoke with the CEO of Thailand's national oil company, Phongsthorn Thavisin from PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), about its long-term growth and sustainability plans. The podcast discusses PTTEP's strategy going forward and why the Middle East remains an important growth region.

This podcast was sponsored by PTTEP.

In this podcast we learn how Schlumberger is taking well construction beyond automation and into autonomy and how the great strides that have been made are delivering excellent results. Speaker guests how the complex and dynamic environment of well construction requires more than automation to deliver consistent performance improvement and how Schlumberger is achieving this by maximising the capability through their autonomous systems, both in rig operations and downhole drilling.

This podcast is sponsored by Schlumberger.

Editor-in-chief, Julian Walker, speaks to Mirko Rubeis from Boston Consulting Group about the important issue of sustainability in the chemicals industry. The podcast touches on the overall importance of sustainability in the chemicals sector, focusing on issues such as decarbonisation, climate change and the circular economy.

In this episode, Julian talks to Paul McMillan, CEO of NTS Group about the reasons behind the acquisition of Amega West. They look specifically at how the merger strengthens the NTS Group portfolio and the challenges of going ahead with an acquisition in the middle of such a challenging time for the oil and gas industry.

Julian talks to Dr. Thana Slanvetpan from AI & Robotics Ventures (ARV), a company of PTTEP Group, about embracing technology developments in AI and Robotics. They discuss how PTTEP is pursing a digitalisation strategy through its newly set up subsidiary ARV and advantages it can bring to the E&P sector. They also look at the importance of partnerships for PTTEP.

In the first two episodes of our Weatherford podcast series we have spoken about digitalisation. In this third episode with Etienne Roux we look at how innovation and collaboration has played a part in the transformation of the oilfield. We learn about the types of technology partnerships Weatherford has been forming and why commercialisation plays such a big part in the transformation of an oilfield.

In this episode, Julian talks to Arun from the Boston Consulting Group about the changing nature of procurement in the oil and gas sector in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. They look at how COVID-19 has brought about greater digitalisation to the procurement sector and how many governments are adopting greater degrees of centralisation in their procurement strategies. Arun also touches on some of the success stories in the GCC.