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The plant, located in offshore Akwa Ibom state in the oil-rich Niger Delta, is expected to be commissioned in 2028, with first gas a year later. It will produce LNG, petroleum gas and condensate. View the full article
Wind Challenger will help reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions by using its unique telescopic sails. In addition to the robust design of Wind Challenger itself, additional safety measures include a fully enclosed navigation bridge and a lookout station on the vessel’s fore deck to further enhance visibility. View the full article
This SURF EPCI contract includes a substantial fabrication scope and offshore work over three years, with the first campaign beginning in 2025. Ocean Installer has also secured a separate contract for replacing a 4 km, 10” flexible flowline at the Troll B field in 2025. View the full article
Saudi Arabia is expected to put less money into the oil industry than initially predicted in its goal to invest $1 trillion in strategic sectors by the end of the decade. 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
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
Crude production grew to 1.41 MMbpd in the second quarter, compared with 1.22 MMbpd a year earlier. Daily oil production in Nigeria is expected to rise to about 2 MMbpd by the end of this year, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, executive vice president of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.’s upstream division, said last week. View the full article
North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) has announced the successful start-up of a new onshore electric-drive compressor which will increase gas flows from Breagh Field. View the full article
MOL Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) in Istanbul to form a strategic partnership for hydrocarbon exploration and production. 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
Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi and SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) CEO Rovshan Najaf signed a Memorandum of Undestanding (MoU) in Baku to evaluate potential cooperation opportunities in the areas of oil and gas exploration and production, energy security and efficiency, GHG emissions reduction, gas transportation infrastructures and sustainability. View the full article
Shell is the last of the European majors to report their results and, like its peers, the company’s profits were underpinned by crude prices that averaged about $85 a barrel during the second quarter. These strong upstream earnings helped to offset weakness elsewhere, notably in refining and natural gas trading. View the full article
SLB and Aramco have signed an agreement with the aim of co-developing, commercializing, and utilizing digital solutions to help mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in industrial sectors. These solutions would be integrated within SLB’s digital sustainability platform, building on the collaboration announced in 2022. View the full article
The Norwegian oil major has secured suppliers to build a floating production vessel, drill production wells and install sea-bed infrastructure. Valaris earlier this year won a $498 million contract to drill wells for the project, known as Raia. The project will cost an estimated $9 billion and could supply 15% of Brazilian gas demand when it comes online. View the full article
Transocean announced that Reliance Industries Limited awarded a binding Letter of Award for the Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 for six wells offshore India. The estimated 300-day program is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2026. 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
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
The Deepwater Development Conference (MCEDD) has welcomed new experts from SOCAR, Woodside Energy, and Staatsolie to its Advisory Board for the 2025 event. View the full article
Oman’s state energy company raised $2 billion from the initial public offering of its exploration and production business, marking the sultanate’s biggest listing on record. View the full article
Block 14 and Block 15 were part of the Suriname Shallow Offshore 2 Bid Round 2023-2024. The blocks are in the eastern part of the Suriname-Guyana basin and border Block 52, where oil and gas discoveries have previously been made. Block 14 has water depths of 50 to 75 m, and Block 15 from 75 to 150 m. View the full article
Preliminary estimates place the size of the Gundrun discovery between 0.1 and 1.2 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent in the intra-Draupne Formation, and between 0.4 and 1.3 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent in the Hugin Formation. View the full article
India’s Swan Energy Ltd. plans to sell its stake in a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to Turkey’s state-run Botas for $399 million. 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
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
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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.
