This week’s most read story on Energy Voice was Loren Steffy’s discussion on the news that Shell is to buy BG Group for £47million.
In his editorial he reflects on what could have been should Shell have decided to snap up BP instead.
The news of the sale initially began circulating earlier this month.
Also sparking an interest was an insightful graphic depicting every oil and gas site around the world.
The mapped visualisation was compiled with data collected by the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.
Elsewhere in the sector, Petrofac is to incur a further $195million charge on the Laggan-Tormore project as a result of continued delays.
The company is currently building the Shetland Gas Plant for Total after signing a £800million deal in 2010 for engineering, procurement, supply, construction and commissioning of the site.
And lastly, it was revealed that the decline in oil price has hit the UK harder than anywhere else in the world.