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(Bloomberg) – The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. View the full article
The Energy Department announced Friday two solicitations for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve - 1.5 MMbbl for delivery in September and an additional 4.5 MMbbl for October, November, and December. The bids, which are due later this month, will be for the reserve’s Bayou Choctaw site, which previously had been off line for maintenance. View the full article
The contracts were awarded to Exxon Mobil and Macquarie. The oil will be delivered to the reserve’s Bayou Choctaw storage site from October 1 through December 31, the Energy Department said. View the full article
The U.S. Energy Department granted a five-year license Tuesday to Wes Edens’ company New Fortress Energy Inc., which is developing the small-scale LNG export plant known as Fast LNG offshore near Altamira, Mexico. The approval is key for U.S. LNG export developers to sell LNG globally to countries in Europe, Japan and China. View the full article
Chevron and top American oil-service companies won an extension to keep a limited presence in Venezuela despite U.S. sanctions intended to starve President Nicolas Maduro’s regime of petrodollars. View the full article
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it is seeking public opinion on whether or not to expand so-called “protected” areas in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A). If enacted, the measure would expand on the Biden administration’s recent ban on new oil and gas drilling projects in the region. View the full article
The Biden administration wants more money to purchase oil as it seeks to expand its efforts to refill the depleted U.S. emergency cache. View the full article
U.S. President Joe Biden “is looking at” a potential release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring down gasoline prices after OPEC+ rejected his request to increase crude production faster, said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. View the full article
BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum Ltd. approved investment in a $12 billion Australian gas project as the companies also confirmed details of a merger to combine their energy assets. View the full article
BHP has long said the oil business was one of its strategic pillars, and argued that it will make money for at least another decade. But as the world tries to shift away from fossil fuels, the company wants to avoid getting stuck with assets that become more difficult to sell, according to insiders. View the full article
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. won approval from U.S. regulators to buy as much as 50% of Occidental Petroleum Corp. after spending months acquiring its shares. Occidental’s shares surged on news of the authorization. View the full article
Bayswater Exploration and Production has entered into an agreement to sell assets in the Denver Julesburg Basin (DJ Basin) to Prairie Operating Company in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $603 million. View the full article
The new location is fully equipped to support this region’s mobile power generator fleet and will provide a full range of maintenance and repair services.
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Baseline Energy Services LP has recently opened a new facility to serve
customers in the Uinta Basin. This new Baseline location is fully equipped to support this region’s mobile power generator fleet and will provide a full range of maintenance and repair services.
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Canada’s banks just started on the path toward zeroing-out the carbon emissions of the companies they lend to, and already they’re running into conflicts between what climate activists and ESG investors want and what Canada’s oil-dependent economy demands. View the full article
Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan joins a growing chorus of Wall Street CEOs from Citigroup Inc.’s Jane Fraser to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s David Solomon, who have all cautioned that a complete withdrawal from oil and gas comes with unacceptable energy security risks. View the full article
Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan joins a growing chorus of Wall Street CEOs from Citigroup Inc.’s Jane Fraser to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s David Solomon, who have all cautioned that a complete withdrawal from oil and gas comes with unacceptable energy security risks. View the full article
Global oil consumption will continue to outstrip supply in 2022 as the economic recovery from the pandemic boosts fuel consumption, while investment in new crude production is crimped by environmental concerns, the bank said in a report. View the full article
A global energy crisis has sent prices for gas and coal soaring around the world, and this has turbocharged the recovery in benchmark London- and New York-traded oil futures, Bank of America Corp. analysts including Francisco Blanch wrote in a note. View the full article
Kistos, an independent energy company focused on generating value across the upstream and midstream markets, noted an announcement made today by Vår Energi, the operator of the Balder Area, regarding the tow-out of the Jotun FPSO from the Worley Rosenberg yard in Stavanger, Norway. View the full article
Williston operators have executed about 15% more refracs than those in the Eagle Ford. While results vary, EIR finds that average refracs in the Williston produce about 50% of new drill estimated ultimate recovery (EUR), outperforming the Eagle Ford’s roughly 25%. View the full article
Baker Hughes and Woodside Energy have announced a joint initiative to develop a lower carbon power generation technology solution utilizing the Net Power platform that is specifically designed for oil and gas (including LNG), heavy industries and other smaller scale applications. View the full article
Baker Hughes and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a new long-term research partnership to establish the Baker Hughes Institute for Decarbonization Materials at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. View the full article
Baker Hughes’ awarded scope includes the supply of 20 compression trains based on Frame 5 gas turbine and BCL compressor technology, which will be installed across three gas boosting stations within the Hassi R’ Mel natural gas field. View the full article
Baker Hughes and Frontier Infrastructure have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) and power solutions in the U.S. 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.
