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Venezuela creditors are holding a rare meeting in Davos next week to discuss potential opportunities in the oil sector amid increasing optimism for investment in the country as the U.S. floats easing some sanctions. View the full article
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed continued cooperation within OPEC+ in a phone call, according to a statement from the Kremlin. View the full article
The U.S. is on track to grow oil production faster than the government is forecasting, according to a BloombergNEF analysis. 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
Through its operations in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo – as well as activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Gabon and Tunisia – Perenco represents a key player in the continent’s upstream industry. View the full article
The agreement builds on the work deployed across APA’s global portfolio over the past three years and introduces new artificial intelligence capabilities with Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) software. View the full article
Nauticus Robotics, a developer of autonomous subsea robotics and software, has successfully completed its initial 2024 Gulf of Mexico (GOM) survey scope for Shell Exploration and Production. View the full article
Oil and gas producers Tailwind Energy Ltd., Serica Energy Plc, Ithaca Energy Ltd., EnQuest Plc and newcomer Waldorf Production UK Ltd. have been considering binding offers for some or all of the assets, according to people familiar with the matter. View the full article
U.S. companies stand to play a significant role in the road to a lower-carbon future on the continent, and to continue leading some of the most important markets in the energy industry. View the full article
Penn Virginia Corporation and Lonestar Resources US Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Penn Virginia will acquire Lonestar in an all-stock transaction. View the full article
The latest data from the group indicate that the world will continue to face an oil supply deficit in the coming months even as its members revive idle production. View the full article
Exxon Mobil Corp. will ramp up spending on low-carbon energy by a factor of four just months after activist investor Engine No. 1 replaced a quarter of the oil giant’s board. View the full article
Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies, Gassco and classification society DNV announced the kick-off of a new JIP to develop low-pressure solutions for the transportation of CO2 by ships. View the full article
The pledge will see 80% of the planned spending go to carbon capture and renewable energy projects, and the remaining 20% to oil and gas production, according to the report. View the full article
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has been awarded a multi-region engineering services contract by bp to support efficient and safe energy production through the provision of asset repairs, modifications and enhancements. View the full article
Caerus aims to be “the Rocky Mountain region’s most efficient producer,” according to its website. The company operates more than 7,400 wells in the Piceance Basin in Colorado and Uinta Basin in Utah. It also has infrastructure assets including 2,400 miles of gas and water pipelines and a number of water treatment and storage facilities. View the full article
The deal will increase Occidental’s production 5% to about 1.32 MMboed in 2024, with the extra coming from the Permian basin, the Houston-based company said in a statement Wednesday. Capital spending will increase about 6% to $6.9 billion. View the full article
To finalize the deal, however, Chevron and Hess still need to prevail in arbitration against Exxon Mobil Corp. and Cnooc Ltd., who claim a right-of-first-refusal on Hess’ biggest asset — a 30% stake in a massive oil field offshore Guyana. The case, currently being administered by the International Chamber of Commerce, is likely to be settled in the third quarter of 2025. View the full article
ADNOC announced today at ADIPEC the signing of the first long-term Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the lower-carbon Ruwais liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which is currently under development in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. View the full article
OPEC and its partners could quickly deploy their stalled production spare capacity to quash oil price rallies, the IEA said in its monthly report. Demand won’t return to pre-virus levels until 2023, the agency said in a separate report. View the full article
One week after OPEC and its allies abandoned their meeting in acrimony, the window for an August oil-production increase is closing without any deal in sight. View the full article
“This bill is 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
A daily increase of 400,000 barrels in oil output would be enough to meet demand, according to Iraqi Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar. View the full article
“Having the right data available at the right time and in the right format can have a huge impact for the future of the Norwegian shelf,” says May Karin Mannes, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate's Director for shelf analyses and data management. View the full article
Oil eased off earlier gains with the European Union’s ban of Russian oil looking increasingly unlikely to pass. 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.
