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U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris faces a problem in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where gas drilling rigs and well pads dot the rolling green farmland. View the full article
Ovintiv’s operations in the Central basin of Utah involves drilling in about 2,600 feet of oil saturated reservoir rock, according to its website. The asset could attract interest from private equity-backed energy groups, the people said. View the full article
This move is part of bp’s broader strategy to cut emissions and enhance efficiency through advanced infrastructure, including the development of centralized processing facilities and innovative drilling technologies. View the full article
The hedge fund veteran and founder of Hayman Capital Management says the backlash that’s been building against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years is largely due to climate activists’ demands that oil and gas be abandoned here and now. As a proposition, that was never tenable or even responsible, he says. View the full article
The four new contracts encompass four heavy-size helicopters Sikorsky S-92A to support Petrobras in the pre-salt Santos basin. CHC will provide crew change flights to over 60 offshore units operated by Petrobras and its partners from Jacarepaguá and Maricá airports, located at Rio de Janeiro estate, Brazil. View the full article
Tecnimont (MAIRE Group) has entrusted Tenaris with the supply of more than 24,500 tons of seamless pipes for a major gas project located in North Africa, designed to bolster energy security in Europe. View the full article
Demand for natural gas will remain strong despite government and company efforts to zero out emissions by mid-century, according to Kevin Gallagher, the head of Santos Ltd. View the full article
Demand will be high enough that failing to invest now in new oil and gas projects would be “catastrophic,” Birdsall said. Without new investment, Exxon sees oil supply falling 70% to 30 MMbpd by 2030, sending crude prices soaring and decimating the global economy. View the full article
Nigerian regulators said they expect to formally consent to ExxonMobil’s sale of its oil and gas assets to Seplat Energy Plc within four months, ending a hiatus that has stalled the conclusion of a transaction that was first announced in February 2022. View the full article
The group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia delayed easing supply curbs last week, but now needs to pick which way it wants to go ahead of next year, given outlook for balances was “not great”, said Ben Luckock, global head of oil at Trafigura. View the full article
Anchor production marks the successful delivery of high-pressure technology that is rated to safely operate at up to 20,000 psi, with reservoir depths reaching 34,000 ft below sea level. View the full article
The Midland, Texas-based company, which recently finalized its acquisition of Endeavor Energy, has also signed a nonbinding letter of intent with nuclear power developer Oklo Inc. to deploy small reactors for some of its future electricity needs. View the full article
Halliburton Co., the world’s biggest provider of fracing services, said it’s alerting customers and other stakeholders after an unauthorized third party gained access to some of its systems. View the full article
Valaris Limited has been awarded a multi-year contract with Equinor Energy do Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Equinor ASA (“Equinor”), for drillship VALARIS DS-17. The contract relates to work offshore Brazil on Project Raia. Equinor’s project partners are Repsol Sinpoec Brazil (35%) and Petrobras (30%). View the full article
The partners will transition Aker BP’s current application portfolio to the cloud and create one integrated platform for subsurface workflows. The high-performance computing speed of the cloud will enable the platform to leverage advanced AI and domain expertise from SLB and Aker BP to reveal new insights from previously untapped data, driving substantial efficiency and performance improvements. View the full article
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company focused on the offshore Atlantic Margins, has announced its audited results for the year ended March 31, 2024. View the full article
During the five years ending in 2023, companies reduced their pollution by more than 25%, a percentage they originally pledged to achieve by 2027 in the North Sea Transition Deal, according to Offshore Energies UK. View the full article
the acquisition includes existing low decline average base production of 29,000 – 30,000 boed, externally and independently evaluated proved and probable ("2P") reserves of 473.2 MMboe, and an extensive drilling inventory, including over 700 Tier 1 locations (246 net Montney locations booked in the Sproule Report 2P reserve category). View the full article
This digital twin can increase production by roughly 1%. After two years of tests, the technology developed by the Brazilian company ESSS, based in Florianópolis (Santa Catarina), was validated and is ready for use. View the full article
Construction on SGP North is scheduled to begin later this year, with infrastructure to include up to 450 new gas production wells, a new field compression station, 27km of pipeline, and road and infrastructure upgrades over two phases. View the full article
Some shale producers are seeking deals even as the biggest names in oil and gas, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., remain on the sidelines digesting their mega mergers after a blistering run. View the full article
Oil demand by 2050 will be “well north” of 100 MMbpd and possibly exceed 110 MMbpd, CEO Greg Ebel said Tuesday in an interview at Bloomberg’s New York headquarters. That contrasts with an International Energy Agency projection that demand will decline to 97 MMbpd by mid-century. View the full article
Senegal’s government set up a commission to examine natural-resource contracts awarded to foreign investors and establish whether they comply with the West African nation’s laws, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said. View the full article
Having analyzed PEBs based on their availability of remaining hydrocarbon resources, development cost, emissions and the availability of new energy sources such as wind and solar, together with their suitability for carbon storage, the Central Arabian and Rub Al Khali basins stand out as carbon-efficient, resource-rich basins with significant potential. View the full article
bp has chosen ABS to support its deepwater Kaskida project in the Gulf of Mexico. ABS will provide classification and engineering verification for the project's new semisubmersible production unit. 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.