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One of the primary drivers of Namibia’s attractiveness as an investment destination is its supportive government and investor-friendly policies. View the full article
The group’s oil ministers were unable to reach a compromise, keeping current production limits in place for August and depriving the market from the extra barrels it needs as demand recovers from the pandemic. View the full article
Schlumberger announced that it has been selected by Wintershall Dea as its preferred partner on the acceleration of its Terra Nova subsurface transformation program. View the full article
The project in Beaumont has a capacity of 1.1 million tons a year in the first phase, while the addition of carbon capture and storage will allow it to produce lower-emission ammonia from 2026, Woodside said. Agreements are in place for the feedstock and carbon capture capacity with Linde Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp., it said. 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
Global demand for oil products has seen strong recovery this year, however, depressed kerosene demand from the aviation sector is a major barrier to full recovery, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. View the full article
Halliburton has announced the addition of SandTrap® XL to its sand consolidation portfolio. This latest innovation addresses the industry's challenge of excessive sand production with a low-viscosity resin system. Activated externally, it enables solids control over large intervals. View the full article
The resolution ends a long-standing conflict between Pemex and Houston-based Talos over the field, which contains as many as one billion barrels of oil equivalent. View the full article
Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy and Verlume have signed a triparty memorandum of understanding to identify and discuss potential opportunities for collaboration on integrated wave energy and subsea energy storage solutions for the emerging subsea clean energy market. View the full article
On Sept. 19, the Board of Directors of ANCAP, the Uruguayan state-owned oil company with regulatory responsibility for offshore licenses, approved Challenger Energy’s farmout agreement for the AREA OFF-1 license with Chevron. The original deal was announced on March 6. View the full article
Climate change looms large for Royal Dutch Shell Plc, BP Plc and Total SE, with investors at all three energy giants calling for greater action. Shareholder resolutions on cutting carbon emissions are set to dominate this month’s AGMs, even as the companies talk up their own, competing proposals. View the full article
China made an unprecedented intervention in the global oil market, releasing crude from its strategic reserve for the first time with the explicit aim of lowering prices. View the full article
Activist investor Dan Loeb has built a position in Royal Dutch Shell Plc and is pushing for a breakup of the energy giant as it embraces renewable energy while continuing to pump oil and gas. View the full article
Connected, intelligent solutions transform E&P workflows — delivering improved efficiency, consistency and performance with reduced footprint. View the full article
(Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. beat analysts’ profit, output and sales estimates as rising oil production from the Permian Basin helped offset weaker crude prices. View the full article
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said the country’s crude exports are on track for full resumption after months of outages as he justified his replacement of the state-run oil company’s leadership. View the full article
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Pioneer Energy Services Corp. for approximately $295 million, which includes the retirement of all Pioneer Energy Services’ debt. View the full article
Guyana has been urging the Exxon-led consortium to develop its offshore natural gas reserves. Exxon plans to complete an appraisal of the natural gas findings by early next year and explore commercialization options. View the full article
With talent acquisition continuing to be a huge industry challenge, the global research project “Energy Sector Entry and the Perceived Barriers” was commissioned by OPITO to better understand young people’s perceived barriers to entering the energy sector. View the full article
Oil posted a gain this week as expectations for growing economic activity in nations from the U.S. to Europe fueled optimism around stronger summer demand. View the full article
At the start of Q1 2022, global oil and gas industry contract activity was stifled due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, in the second half of the quarter a minor increase in the number of contracts was reported. View the full article
To be a first-of-its-kind sub-sea high-voltage direct current transmission network in the MENA region, this project rapidly progressed from concept to development phase with construction starting in early 2022. View the full article
During its 95th Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., last week, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) announced its new chairman for a two-year term while also revealing its first Chief Roughneck Award winner in five years. The two-day event hosted independent producers from across the U.S. View the full article
Seen from Moscow, the melting of the polar ice cap is as much economic opportunity as natural disaster, opening the Northern Sea Route from Asia to Europe for shipping and creating access to potentially vast new reserves of minerals, oil and gas. View the full article
Processing the high-sulfur crudes produced in the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t been this profitable since 2017, thanks largely to cheap shale gas. 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.
