Will US supply peak sooner or later? Daniel Romero and Edward Sherfey discuss US Lower 48 Supply in the context of Wood Mackenzie's latest long-term oil market outlook. Short-term infrastructure constraints aren't going to slow the long-term boom.

Thoughts have now turned to who is going to pay for decommissioning and the knock-on effect it will have on production, capital investment and M+A. Strategic decisions will be heavily influenced by how the taxation system handles such costs. Two of Wood Mackenzie's petroleum taxation experts - Ross Millan ([email protected]) and Aleks Popovics ([email protected]) - discuss some of the key takeaways from our recent report entitled "Upstream decommissioning: where's next and who pays?"

https://www.woodmac.com/reports/upstream-oil-and-gas-upstream-decommissioning-wheres-next-and-who-pays-22918

Kris and Obo share thoughts on last week's announcements by Anadarko, ConocoPhillips and Occidental: Anadarko and ConocoPhillips have upsized their share buyback programmes by US$1 billion. Occidental also nudged up its dividend.

Luke and Obo share thoughts on last week's big announcement: BP will buy a 16.5% in Clair (UK) from ConocoPhillips, bumping its stake to 45.1%; the US super-independent will buy BP's entire 39.2% stake in the Greater Kuparuk Area (Alaska), giving it 94.5%.

Angus Rodger and guests discuss the forecasting game, and how close to the mark we have been so far this year in our 'five things to watch in Asia Pacific in 2018' predictions. We also discuss the most interesting events and biggest surprises so far, including New Zealand exploration, Australian co-operation and Vietnamese politics.

Analysts from the MENA upstream team discuss some of the topics that they have written about over the last month – ranging from bid rounds in UAE and Egypt to the implications of OPEC’s latest meeting.

Luke Parker and Neivan Boroujerdi share thoughts in Eni's tie-up with Point Resources in Norway.

The Sub-Saharan Africa upstream research team discuss some of the key news stories over the past month. In this podcast, Gail Anderson, Jon Lawrence and Adam Pollard discuss contrasting fortunes for East African LNG and Angola’s continuing upstream revival.

Ruaraidh Montgomery, Principal Analyst – Corporate Research and Tom Ellacott, Senior Vice President, discuss the implications of ExxonMobil's latest discovery in Guyana

Analysts from the Latin America upstream research team recently returned from a trip to Buenos Aires and Neuquen, Argentina. We discuss key takeaways from our conversations including the latest on well designs, the local gas market, and cost reductions in the most important international shale play.