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Led by $2.59 billion asset transaction with BP Exploration (Epsilon), Middle East and Africa’s oil and gas industry saw a drop of 32.92% in deal activity during Q1 2021, when compared to the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. View the full article
Australia will challenge a court ruling that orders the government to consider climate change impacts from a planned coal mine expansion, a decision seen as clouding the prospects for any new fossil fuels projects. View the full article
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin stands alone among his fellow Democrats, recognizing the long-term economic damage Biden's $3.5T liberal wish list would inflict on America’s ability to meet its own energy needs, and compete in the global economic arena. View the full article
Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are plowing windfall profits into share buybacks as soaring energy prices boost their cash flow. View the full article
The UK proposed a series of climate change tests to determine whether new oil and gas fields can be built off its shores, but said its net-zero pledge doesn’t require the industry to be shut down. View the full article
As Texas officials hunt for financial firms hostile to the energy industry, Wall Street is rolling out its fossil fuel bona fides to convince officials not to bar them from doing business with the state. View the full article
The Biden administration’s plan to crack down on smog in the oil-rich Permian Basin threatens to curb crude production while gasoline prices are near record highs and energy scarcity grips the globe, the industry warned Thursday. View the full article
The interest and investment in the hydrogen sector shows there is real progress being made in renewables, and that despite current market challenges, hydrogen will play a major role in global energy in the near future. View the full article
Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan joins a growing chorus of Wall Street CEOs from Citigroup Inc.’s Jane Fraser to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s David Solomon, who have all cautioned that a complete withdrawal from oil and gas comes with unacceptable energy security risks. View the full article
Recently, Talos agreed to acquire a 21.4% W.I. in Monument, a large Wilcox oil and gas discovery located in Walker Ridge blocks 271, 272, 315, and 316, for $32 million. Monument will be developed as a subsea tie-back to the Shenandoah production facility in Walker Ridge. The Monument discovery is post-FID with appraised proved plus probable gross reserves of approximately 115 MMboe. View the full article
Refineries in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania as well as those in Ontario and Quebec would have to find alternative means for securing crude oil should Line 5 be shut, requiring the building of new rail terminals and rail cars, Vern Yu, Enbridge's president of liquid pipelines, told Canadian lawmakers Tuesday. View the full article
Motorists across a broad swath of the U.S. East Coast and South are struggling to find gasoline and diesel as filling stations run dry amid the unprecedented pipeline disruption caused by a criminal hack. View the full article
The Biden administration is preparing to release a blueprint for limiting sales of U.S. drilling rights as rising oil and gasoline prices highlight the risks of curtailing domestic crude production. View the full article
Angola, which relies on oil for more than 90% of its exports, has been struggling to recover from the 2014-2016 collapse in prices. It has also not been able to boost investments, needed to increase production from its aging fields. View the full article
The U.S. is talking to other energy-consuming nations about how to press OPEC+ to boost output to address the current supply crunch, a senior U.S. official told reporters in Rome. View the full article
TotalEnergies has signed with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals of the Sultanate of Oman a series of agreements for the sustainable development of the country’s natural gas resources. View the full article
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is quitting his post as chairman of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft PJSC after widespread calls for him to cut ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine. View the full article
TotalEnergies, as operator, announced the decision of the Papua LNG joint venture to launch the first phase of front-end engineering and design sudies for the Papua LNG project's upstream production facilities. View the full article
The American Petroleum Institute announced that Will Hupman is returning to API as Vice President of Downstream Policy. In this role, Hupman will lead the API Downstream department and coordinate downstream issues across the organization to help advance API’s mission. View the full article
Summit Carbon Solutions has received the green light from Iowa regulators to construct the Midwest Carbon Express, a 688-mile pipeline spanning 29 counties. View the full article
PETRONAS has achieved success offshore Suriname with the Sloanea-2 appraisal well in Block 52, which was drilled in June. This accomplishment has bolstered PETRONAS’ prospects in the basin and opens the possibility of developing a standalone Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) project at the field in the future. View the full article
Global oil demand won’t return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023, and growth will be subdued thereafter amid new working habits and a shift away from fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency said. View the full article
U.S. companies stand to play a significant role in the road to a lower-carbon future in the continent, and to continue leading some of the most important markets in the energy industry. View the full article
Israel Shipyards Ltd. announced its agreement with Chevron (Noble Energy Mediterranean Ltd.) for performance of a 16-month coating program for its Offshore and Onshore assets. View the full article
“This bill is at fundamentally at odds with the president’s commitment to repeal fossil fuel subsidies,” said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth. “This is a failure of climate leadership that will not soon be forgotten.” View the full article
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I started this blog to express what I sense about the highs and lows of the oil realm, while cautiously analysing historical data, taking into account the geo-political development at the time of recording them.
I got into this field, having been a passive observer of fluctuations of crude oil prices and their global consequences for years.
Then, when on the day of Great Oil Crash in April, 2020, I made a decision to make my own blog, with the motto, ‘analysing data that really matters’.
Having come from an academic background in mathematics and physics, I analyse data using my own tools, created with JavaScript and Python, taking my decision on board while making decisions.