Ashima Taneja and Angus Rodger from our Asia Pacific upstream research team discuss the latest regional oil and gas developments, focusing on recent exploration licensing round announcements and the outlook for pre-FID projects in Asia.

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Valentina Kretzschmar from our Corporate team is joined by Paul McConnell from our Global Trends team to discuss the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

Greig Aitken from the M&A team and Kevin Swann from the UK Upstream team share their thoughts on the lead story of the week: the DONG INEOS deal.

Valentina Kretzschmar and Greg Roddick from Wood Mackenzie’s Corporate Research team share their thoughts on the weeks oil price movements, and Eni’s recent project delivery success.

Obo Idornigie, Principal Analyst Corporate Service, and Greig Aitken, Principal Analyst M&A Service, share their thoughts on the Kosmos/BP 15tcf gas discovery in Senegal and Neptune's acquisition of ENGIE's E&P business.

Andy McConn and Roy Martin from Wood Mackenzie's Corporate Research team share their thoughts on last week's Q1 results.

The Vaca Muerta shale development in Argentina is getting bigger. Maria Cortez and Elena Nikolova sit down to discuss our recent development update and what they believe the future holds for unconventional development in Argentina.

After a few years of grappling with low oil prices, the oil sands got a jolt with close to US$25 billion in M&A deals announced in March and April 2017. Shell, Marathon and ConocoPhillips divested of most of their oil sands holdings while Canadian oil sands operators, Suncor, Canadian Natural Resources and Cenovus scooped up assets recently to further cement their status as the key operator's driving the oil sands' future. Peter Argiris, Principal Analyst on the Institutional Investor Service team, and Stephen Kallir, Canadian Upstream Analyst, discuss what the consolidation means for the industry today and going forward.

Tom Ellacott and Valentina Kretzschmar from Wood Mackenzie's Corporate Research team share their thoughts on last week's Q1 results.

Off the back of the announcement today from ConocoPhillips' on the sale of their San Juan Basin assets to Hilcorp Energy Company affiliate, we provide a quick reaction to this major deal announcement. The total consideration of the deal is up to US$3 billion, with US$2.7 in cash and a contingent payment of up to US$300 million, making this deal one of largest in the US Rockies region in recent memory as well as one of the few US L48 deals outside of the Permian this year.