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B3 CEO and co-founder Kelly Bennett said "This program is a commitment by B3 and its members to put words to action through collaboration and transparency to create meaningful solutions.” View the full article
B3 Insight announced the launch of a complete produced water dataset that covers all of North Dakota including the extensive Bakken Shale Play. View the full article
B3 Insight announces the completion of the data disclosure pilot for the WaterSage Certification developed in partnership with B3’s Oilfield Water Stewardship Council (OWSC) members. View the full article
Axis Energy Services LLC and Brigade Energy Services LLC jointly announced the closing of an agreement to merge and form the nation's largest well servicing company. View the full article
AVEVA, says 85% of industrial businesses plan to increase their investment in digital transformation over the next three years in order to tackle climate change, embrace automation and unlock the performance benefits of advanced technologies. View the full article
The new Connected Build solution optimizes project efficiency and improves sustainability outcomes for capital projects across the power, energy, chemicals and mining industries. View the full article
The combined portfolio brings OSIsoft’s world-class data management together with AVEVA’s leading industrial software to unlock Performance Intelligence. View the full article
Autry Stephens, the petroleum engineer raised on a Texas peanut and watermelon farm who became the richest U.S. oilman, has died. He was 86. View the full article
Australia should include “caveats” in any net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions pledge to allow it to suspend climate-change commitments should regional areas of the economy be negatively impacted, according to a senior government lawmaker. View the full article
Australia will challenge a court ruling that orders the government to consider climate change impacts from a planned coal mine expansion, a decision seen as clouding the prospects for any new fossil fuels projects. View the full article
by extending safe operating windows, Akselos can help operators avoid over $100 million in lost production by potentially avoiding unnecessary dry dock. The software also allows FPSO operators to extend the operational life of assets by removing unwanted and overly conservative fatigue estimates, powered by the Akselos RB-FEA technology. View the full article
There have been signs across the oil market of traders expecting tighter supplies following the Saudi cuts. The shape of the Brent futures curve returned to backwardation earlier this week, meaning more immediate prices are trading at premiums. View the full article
“Going forward into April and May, we’re going to see pretty significant increases in demand,” said Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities. “At this point, however, prices are a little overdone. The market is assuming a little too much in terms of what OPEC+ will do.” View the full article
Asian liquefied natural gas traders are rushing to secure shipments from the U.S., where the fuel is among the cheapest in the world despite what’s turning into the steepest price run in two decades. View the full article
Asia’s emergence as global natural gas trading superpower will increasingly dictate market rates in Europe for a once-localized commodity that was simply linked to the price of oil. View the full article
Asian demand for U.S. oil is rising as the energy crisis boosts prices for other crudes that are priced against the global Brent futures contract. View the full article
Asia’s relentless buying of liquefied natural gas earlier this year has left the region so well stocked for winter that spot shipments are being diverted to energy-hungry Europe. View the full article
ASCO mobilized two radiation safety officers (RSOs) as well as NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) and mercury monitoring and analysis equipment to the OMSB site. The RSOs delivered on-site training for NORM awareness, and monitoring for various hazards such as benzene, H2S (hydrogen sulphide) with a particular focus on NORM and mercury. View the full article
With the Paris Agreement's decarbonization plans suddenly not ambitious enough for the West, key Middle East producers see an opportunity, and are putting serious money down to cover their bets. View the full article
For the past year, oil consuming countries have become increasingly anxious at crude’s resurgence: first to $50 a barrel, then $75 and now to more than $85. And when Vladimir Putin, one of the leaders of the OPEC+ cartel, warned that $100 a barrel was a distinct possibility, the alarm bells really started ringing. View the full article
AI-related electricity demand is expected to translate to between 6 - 13 Bcfgd in the short term, Toby Rice, EQT’s chief executive officer, said Tuesday. That compares with current total US consumption of just over 100 Bcfd. View the full article
The Vaca Muerta, Spanish for dead cow, is an oil and gas field in western Argentina, which is said to have natural gas reserves that rival the Permian basin. Its shale oil production, currently at about 300,000 bpd, is expected to grow to more than 1 MMbpd by 2030. View the full article
President Javier Milei, who’s just months into a four-year term, pledges to go where no Argentine leader has successfully ventured for three decades by deregulating the country’s tightly controlled economy. But his signature legislation, which would stamp his libertarian vision on the economy — including free oil markets — still needs to win approval in congress. View the full article
YPF is aiming for capital expenditures this year of $2.7 billion, as it tries to halt four years of production declines. After the coronavirus pandemic decimated revenue and the debt swap yielded limited results, getting there will require increasing fuel prices, cutting drilling costs, selling local debt, and maybe divesting assets. View the full article
Shale accounted for 52% of YPF’s second-quarter production of the equivalent of 539,000 bopd, up from 45% in the same period last year. Industry plans that it’s spearheading for a new shale oil pipeline are also accelerating, with drillers already negotiating to fill two thirds of capacity. 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.
