From the Editor: Hocus Focus

It’s not possible to think about the entire global oil and gas industry concretely. It’s just too big – there’s too much for the mind to take in all at once.You have to focus – to break through the abstract and move down towards the industry’s component parts. Even then, the industry’s so large, so ubiquitous, that it’s not an easy task to decide just where to aim your focus. We think we’ve come up with a constructive approach. So in addition to our usual thematic focal points,we have introduced with this issue our new country focus sections, in which we concentrate on our North Sea neighbours’ involvement in the industry.