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The award, which marks Sparrows first large contract in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, will see the company hire local personnel including lifting engineers, mechanical and electrical technicians, rope access, inspectors and crane supervisors. View the full article
The seven-figure deal will see Sparrows’ Houston team deliver crane inspection, maintenance, testing and repair services at two onshore facilities and a platform in the Gulf of Mexico. View the full article
Southwestern Energy Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with the third largest private Haynesville producer – GEP Haynesville, LLC under which it will acquire GEP for approximately $1.85 billion. The transaction is expected to close by year-end 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. View the full article
The upcoming period of rapid growth is bolstered by deepwater projects, recent successful discoveries in Indonesia and Malaysia, and positive carbon capture and storage (CCS) advancements, which will be crucial in meeting the region’s sanctioning agenda in the years ahead. View the full article
Bol Ring Mourwel, who was appointed head of Nile Petroleum Corp. in September 2020, was removed with immediate effect, according to a decree broadcast on state television on Thursday. View the full article
The changes come almost two weeks after the Malaysian conglomerate announced it would leave South Sudan after 14 years. UK-based oil and gas company Savannah Energy Plc has been in talks to purchase that business. View the full article
South Sudan is taking steps to take over the operations of international oil companies in the country to increase its share of revenue, even as production declines, according to a government official. View the full article
In the nine months through March, South Sudan produced 150,000 bpd. This plunged 70% in the final three months of the fiscal year after its main export pipeline ruptured in February. Last week, President Salva Kiir’s office signaled progress in plans to restore production after a meeting with Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in Juba. View the full article
The South Sudan Oil Licensing Round aims to attract interest from a diverse group of foreign investors to a region that is already home to oil and gas majors from China and Malaysia. View the full article
South Sudan is experiencing a rapid drop in crude output as producing oil blocks have hit peaks and have begun to decline, according to Ministry of Petroleum Undersecretary Awow Daniel Chuang. View the full article
Geophysical exploration indicated there’s a “high possibility” the discovery offshore the port city of Pohang holds as much as 14 Bbbl of oil and gas, Yoon said. The estimated volume could be worth more than four years of oil consumption and as much as 29 years of gas demand for the country, he added. View the full article
An island region famed for its location at the very tip of South America wants to diversify its economy away from fossil fuels to tap the global clean-energy transition. View the full article
Environmental groups won a case in 2021 that halted the exploration activity in an area known as the Wild Coast. South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals dismissed Shell's appeal on Monday. However, it suspended the orders setting aside the granting of the exploration right and each of the two renewals in 2017 and 2021, pending finalization of the third renewal. View the full article
(Bloomberg) – Some oil explorers are “not satisfied” with South Africa’s industry rules that were signed into law last month, according to a lobby group. The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act includes regulations for the ownership and development of oil and gas blocks. View the full article
South Africa’s Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe on Thursday reiterated that the country was committed to developing its oil and gas sector, despite external pressures to transition to a greener economy. View the full article
South Africa expects TotalEnergies SE to submit a production plan within weeks to utilize a prolific offshore gas discovery that will form a key part of increasing investment in the sector. View the full article
Angola aims to produce 1.1 MMbopd by 2027, with plans to reach 2 MMbpd in the long-term. At the same time, the country aims to increase the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 25% by 2025, highlighting strategic opportunities for foreign investors and project developers. View the full article
Troops from Mozambique and Rwanda retook a port town at the heart of a four-year insurgency that led to the suspension of a $20 billion project by TotalEnergies SE. View the full article
Hayal Ahmadzada, Socar’s chief trading officer, said the glut of excess oil stocks that built up in 2020 in response to the pandemic will be fully drawn down by the summer. At the same time, soaring prices for steel used in pipes, wells and fittings as well as the high cost of capital for producers will crimp a meaningful supply response by an already hobbled industry even as demand returns. View the full article
The SARB and Umm Lulu offshore concessions deploy cutting-edge digitalization and AI technologies for remote monitoring, smart well operations and production management to optimize production efficiency, reduce emissions, enhance safety and increase production capacity. View the full article
Soaring energy prices are exacerbating divisions in the European Union as national leaders brace for heated talks about how to protect the most vulnerable and avoid a backlash against the bloc’s ambitious climate change plan. View the full article
SM Energy Co. and Northern Oil and Gas Inc., two U.S. shale drillers, agreed to acquire assets in Utah’s Uinta basin for about $2.6 billion in cash, the latest in a string of oil and gas acquisitions as operators look to scale up. View the full article
Growth in the world’s demand for oil is expected to slow in the coming years, as energy transitions advance. At the same time, global oil production is set to ramp up, easing market strains and pushing spare capacity toward levels unseen outside of the Covid crisis, according to the Internaional Energy Agency’s (IEA) new oil market outlook. View the full article
The companies will integrate advanced digital capabilities, including artificial intelligence (AI), with new and existing applications on SLB’s extensible Delfi digital platform, adhering to the Open Group’s OSDU Technical Standard. View the full article
These platforms will enable SLB to achieve comprehensive security across its network, cloud and edge platforms, enabling thousands of domain and AI users on SLB’s Delfi digital platform to collaborate in a safe and secure environment. 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.
