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TotalEnergies sold its stake in 18 Nigerian onshore oil licenses to Chappal Energies. This reflects a trend of junior explorers and African national oil companies acquiring onshore assets as global majors focus on offshore projects. View the full article
Based on the report from its Vienna-based research department, the restart ought to be urgently needed. OPEC’s data suggest that world inventories should be depleting rapidly now and — unless the group opens the taps — face a substantial shortfall of more than 3 MMbpd in the fourth quarter. View the full article
European energy companies have been grappling with competing forces — the negative impact of low natural gas prices and falling refining margins due to weak fuel demand, against the positive effect of higher crude prices amid OPEC+ supply cuts. For Eni, the upside outweighed the downside. View the full article
The Pioneer takeover closed in early May, helping lift Exxon’s overall production by 15% on a sequential basis, and setting the stage for daily output to average more than 4 MMbbl this year. View the full article
Located within an emerging basin, 60 km offshore Principe, Block STP02 covers an area of 4,969 km2. Block STP02 is adjacent to the Block STP01 license operated by TotalEnergies (55%) alongside Sonangol (30%) and ANP-STP (15%). View the full article
Slim’s Grupo Carso agreed to a deal with Mexico’s state-run Petroleos Mexicanos to explore and extract from Lakach, a deepwater field discovered in 2007 about 98 km (61 miles) southeast of the city of Veracruz. Carso will team with Houston-based Talos Energy and a local unit of Spain’s Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA to develop Lakach. View the full article
Ovintiv followed Matador Resources Co. in raising full-year production plans at a time when U.S. drillers have been committing to flat or moderate output growth so they can return more cash to investors and expand portfolios of future drilling sites. View the full article
The Leviathan gas field offshore Israel – touted as the largest gas field in the Mediterranean- is set for an expansion in natural gas export capacity, following preliminary approval from Israel’s Energy Ministry. The approval allows for an increase in export volume by up to 145 Bcm. View the full article
GEPetrol’s transformation into a competitive operator follows a trend of similar NOC restructuring in Africa, all of which have enhanced the competitiveness and capacity of the respective NOCs. These include Angola’s Sonangol, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Algeria’s Sonatrach, and more. View the full article
the digital solutions implemented onsite at SARB allow the field to be operated remotely from Zirku island, 20 km away. Remote monitoring, smart well operations and production management technologies are integrated at the remote control center for optimized real-time decision-making. View the full article
In the past 24 hours, 47 new fires emerged in the province, most of them south of the unofficial oil sands capital of Fort McMurray, said Kai Bowering, spokeswoman for Alberta Wildfire. The arid conditions are expected to persist for the next 24 hours, making it easier for the blazes to spread, she said. View the full article
National energy associations strongly support the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, introduced by Senate Energy Chairman Joe Manchin and Ranking Member John Barrasso. View the full article
Kimmeridge is buying out Commonwealth LNG founder Paul Varello’s share in the company as he retires and boosting the firm’s stake to 90%. The company also is appointing David Lawler — who resigned from bp in the wake of Bernard Looney’s departure in 2023 — as chief executive officer of the Kimmeridge Texas Gas unit, which would run Commonwealth LNG. View the full article
The project is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 18,100 boed day in 2026, and the oil property is light crude. It is the first oil field in the South China Sea supplied with onshore power. View the full article
Turkey, seeking to extend its influence in Africa and strengthen energy security, will send the 86 m long research vessel Oruc Reis to explore offshore oil and gas blocks belonging to Somalia next month. View the full article
Almost 50% of the 1,300 senior professionals that responded to DNV’s survey said they plan to integrate AI-driven applications into their operations in the coming year, with Digital Leaders leading the charge. View the full article
The Permian Strategic Partnership (PSP) is welcoming Energy Transfer and Phillips 66 as its newest members, expanding to 31 members. In the five years since its founding, the PSP has nearly doubled in size and exponentially expanded its impact in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. View the full article
Upstream M&A activity notched its third consecutive quarter of heightened value with more than $30 billion transacted. That brings year-to-date activity, including July deals, to nearly $90 billion and nearly $250 billion transacted in the last 12 months. Prior to the latest run of consolidation, quarterly M&A value had only topped $30 billion three times since the start of 2017. View the full article
The Sensori fracture monitoring service provides true, real-time data acquisition and processing of near-well and far-field subsurface measurements. Through automation, cloud processing and big data analytics, the Sensori service provides continuous, real-time subsurface feedback for multiple well pads across an entire asset. View the full article
Chevron Corporation started water injection operations at two of its offshore projects to boost oil and gas recovery at the company’s existing Jack/St. Malo and Tahiti facilities in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. View the full article
Wood will provide front-end engineering design (FEED), detailed design, procurement support, and construction and commissioning assistance for the first phase of the Associated Gas Upstream Project, part of the Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP) in Southern Iraq. View the full article
ADNOC made the final investment decision to build the LNG plant in the industrial city of Ruwais, according to a statement. The project will add 9.6 million tons of annual gas export capacity and more than double ADNOC's production capability. View the full article
Matador expects to have over 190,000 net acres in the Delaware basin, part of the greater Permian basin, producing over 180,000 boed, with proved reserves exceeding 580 MMboe. The enterprise value of the combined company is projected to exceed $10 billion. View the full article
The software is a fully adaptive, self-learning, and continuously improving system that addresses the unique challenges and requirements of drilling. The AI agent finds the most efficient and safe way to TD, predicts incidents, hazards, and optimizes parameters. View the full article
Drillers have extended the horizontal length of their wells since the pandemic to three miles or more to squeeze more output from their sites. The longer so-called laterals are often credited with helping explorers deliver surprise production growth of 1 MMbpd last year. View the full article
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About this blog
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.
