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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
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
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
Countries like Angola, Mozambique, Uganda and Tanzania are opening up new exploration frontiers, presenting attractive farm-in opportunities for independents like ReconAfrica. The oil reserves in Uganda’s portion of the Lake Albert basin, particularly in the Albertine Graben, are estimated at around 6.5 Bbbl, indicating promising prospects within the onshore region. View the full article
Block 3B/4B covers an area of 17,581 km2 within the prolific Orange basin offshore South Africa in water depths ranging between 300 m and 2,500 m. The block is near a number of highly anticipated oil discoveries, including the Venus discovery. View the full article
The U.S. LNG developer has reviewed various equity investment offerings from the energy companies related to its proposed Driftwood plant, said the people, who asked not to be named as they’re not authorized to speak to the media. 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
Petrobras ended Q2 2024 with an average production of 2.7 MMboed, an increase of 2.4% compared to the same period of the previous year. The increase was driven by the increase in production ( ramp-up ) of the FPSOs Almirante Barroso, P-71, Anna Nery, Anita Garibaldi and Sepetiba, in addition to the entry into production of 12 new wells from complementary projects, eight in the Campos basin and four in the Santos basin. 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
The Nigerien nationals, who worked for the local affiliate of China National Petroleum Corp., were at Benin’s Sèmè Kpodji port to control the loading of crude for export, the ruling junta known as Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland, said in a statement late Saturday. View the full article
In tweets and campaign memos, Republican are resurfacing Harris’ previous anti-fracing stance to show how out of touch with voters in politically important states such as Pennsylvania. View the full article
Angola aims to produce 1.1 MMbopd by 2027, with plans to reach 2 MMbpd in the long-term. At the same time, the country aims to increase the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 25% by 2025, highlighting strategic opportunities for foreign investors and project developers. View the full article
With the national unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% and job growth across the United States slowed much more than expected, the energy services sector remained relatively steady. The current unemployment rate is at its highest since October 2021, triggering fears of an impending recession. View the full article
The Atlantis field was discovered in 2020. Its total recoverable reserves are estimated at 65 Mmboe, with upside potential. This puts Atlantis among the largest offshore discoveries made on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the last decade. View the full article
SM Energy Co. and Northern Oil and Gas Inc., two U.S. shale drillers, agreed to acquire assets in Utah’s Uinta basin for about $2.6 billion in cash, the latest in a string of oil and gas acquisitions as operators look to scale up. View the full article
Wood will deliver a comprehensive concept study for the Greater Sunrise Development, considering engineering, technology, financing, commercial structures, fiscal, environmental, health & safety and socioeconomic drivers including local content. View the full article
U.S. LNG exports yield significant economic advantages by bolstering natural gas production, thereby enhancing labor income within the sector and driving down the costs of imported goods while bolstering the value of the dollar, consequently stimulating heightened economic activity, according to the Center for LNG. View the full article
Angola’s 2025 limited tender will feature Block 40, Block 25, Block 39 and Block 26 in the Benguela basin as well as Block 22, Block 35, Block 37, Block 38 and Block 36 in the Kwanza basin. Additionally, the country has four onshore blocks available; 11 blocks on permanent offer; and five marginal fields ready for exploration. View the full article
Production at the El-Feel field in southwestern Libya has stopped, according to people familiar with the matter, while local operators are indicating they’ll gradually halt pumping nationwide. The move to freeze all production and exports announced Monday by the eastern Libyan authorities came in response to a decision by the internationally recognized government in the west to replace central bank Governor Sadiq Al-Kabir. View the full article
Coconut will be a 50/50 joint venture with EOG as operator. The final investment decision has been taken by the joint venture partners and first gas is expected in 2027. View the full article
Eirin is a gas field located 250 km west of Stavanger. The field will be developed as a subsea facility that will be adapted and prepared as a tie-in point for future discoveries in the area that can be expanded with new wells. View the full article
ADNOC is the third major industrial partner to join Exxon’s project, which would produce 1 Bcf of hydrogen per day and 1 million tons of ammonia a year. JERA Co., Japan’s biggest power, provider signed a non-binding agreement in March to buy half of the ammonia and in June Air Liquide SA said it could use its pipelines. View the full article
A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a settlement between the joint venture building Exxon Mobil Corp.’s $10 billion gas export project in Texas and lead contractor Zachry Holdings Inc., allowing other companies to finish work on the plant. 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.
