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Libya’s oil ministry said fields shut down by protesters may reopen within days, potentially allowing the OPEC member to get back to full production. View the full article
TUBACEX will build a new tube and thread manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi as part of its largest-ever award with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. View the full article
Shell Plc, ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Equinor ASA plan to withdraw multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Nigeria’s state energy company after finalizing new terms for deepwater oil production in Africa’s largest crude producer. View the full article
The new pump technology will support and enable the gas stream, rich in CO2, to be separated and pumped immediately back into the reservoir at the seabed, 2000 m below the water line, allowing FPSOs to improve their efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint, further enhancing production. View the full article
Woodside is targeting a final investment decision for the first phase of the Driftwood project from the first quarter of 2025. If all four phases are completed, the Louisiana facility would be able to export 27.6 million tons a year — almost triple Woodside’s current capacity and nearly 6% of the global total at the end of last year. View the full article
Shell will sell Turkey’s state-owned Botas the equivalent of around 4 Bcmg per year starting in 2027, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said at a signing ceremony in Ankara. That’s about 8% of the country’s total gas demand in 2023, data from the national energy regulator show. View the full article
Enverus Intelligence Research gives an in-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities in hydrocarbon supply amid commodity price volatility View the full article
Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline lost the latest round of its legal fight against European Union gas market rules, in a largely symbolic court defeat for the now-shuttered project. View the full article
Prepayment deals are rare in the oil world and this was meant to improve Iraq’s financial situation. While the government is still struggling, its position has improved on soaring oil prices, largely thanks to the rollout of coronavirus vaccines. View the full article
Honeywell is launching its gas cloud imaging system in Europe to provide automated and continuous monitoring for leaks of dangerous and polluting gases such as methane at oil and gas, chemical and power generation facilities across the continent. View the full article
Iran plans to restore the bulk of its crude oil production within one month of the easing of U.S. sanctions if world powers manage to broker the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, the official Shana news agency reported, quoting an official at the National Iranian Oil Co. View the full article
The software combines innovative technology with a tightly integrated, end-to-end suite of workflows to create a complete and connected geoscience solution that enables a subsurface digital twin. View the full article
Norway’s election-winning Labor Party agreed to form a minority government with another proponent of oil exploration, the agrarian and euro-skeptic Center Party. View the full article
Oil fell sharply as a new coronavirus strain raised concerns about the outlook for demand and sent global markets spiraling. View the full article
More than 100 people died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeastern Nigeria over the weekend, demonstrating the dangers associated with an illicit industry that thrives in the crude-producing region. View the full article
Seadrill Limited, an offshore drilling contractor, announced it has been awarded contract extensions for the AOD I, AOD III and West Callisto jackup rigs for work offshore in the Persian Gulf. View the full article
Latest analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group reveals a healthy recovery roadmap for the global land rig market, driven by higher commodity pricing and mounting pressures around energy security. View the full article
Drilling operations have been completed safely and successfully, with the well drilled to a total depth of 10,290 feet (measured depth). Zephyr’s operations team is now preparing to set a production liner across the Cane Creek reservoir section, after which the Helmerich & Payne Rig 257 will rig down and demobilise from the site. View the full article
The Kintore-based company’s first ever scope of work in Canada has involved the supply of three subsea battery-powered control systems to maintain integrity of the subsea electrical infrastructure when topside electrical power is unavailable. View the full article
The Tyrving development leverages the planned extended lifetime for the Alvheim field and will increase production while reducing both unit costs and CO2 emissions per barrel. The field consists of three wells and two new subsea installations tied back to existing infrastructure at East Kameleon and further to the Alvheim FPSO.
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Wood is leading a Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) to create industry guidelines for CO2 specifications to accelerate sustainable Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. The guidelines are the first of their kind to focus on the impact of impurities in CO2 across the entire CCUS value chain.
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South Africa is in talks to obtain liquefied natural gas from Qatar as the country faces a decline in supplies from neighboring Mozambique in the coming years. View the full article
The announcement comes as nations in the eastern Mediterranean ramp up investments in offshore gas fields. Egypt is seeking to become a major hub for exporting LNG to Europe, where demand is growing as governments transition from dirtier fossil fuels such as coal and oil. View the full article
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has sought to clamp down on private competition to state-owned companies, saying in October he intends to protect the interests of state oil producer Pemex and electricity firm Comision Federal de Electricidad. At the time, he accused foreign companies of ransacking the country. View the full article
With the East African Oil Pipeline project recently getting the go-ahead, Uganda is set to produce its first oil as early as 2025 and production in the next five years is expected to jump to 230,000 barrels per day, from zero in 2021, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. 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.
