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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
Mexico could slash Pemex’s taxes further as the world’s most indebted oil company scrambles to reverse long-term oil production declines. View the full article
Vitol Group and Trafigura Group -- both barred from new oil-trading business with Mexico’s state producer for alleged corruption -- will be subject to the ban until at least the end of 2024 while the government reviews the conduct of other commodity traders, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said. View the full article
Environmentalists are calling on the Biden administration to crack down on methane leaks from low-producing U.S. oil wells, after new research shows they are releasing a disproportionate share of the potent greenhouse gas. View the full article
Shell Brasil announced the start of production of the Mero-3 FPSO facility in the Mero field, in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The FPSO has an operational capacity of 180,000 bopd. View the full article
Mermaid Subsea Services has successfully completed what is believed to be the largest vessel-based U.K. North Sea decommissioning campaign in history. The project spanned two years and involved the plugging and abandonment (P&A) of 21 wells. View the full article
Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) Ltd is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the first stage of a major North Sea decommissioning contract for Shell U.K. Limited. View the full article
Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) Ltd. has successfully completed the first stage of a major North Sea decommissioning contract for Shell U.K. Limited. View the full article
Over the long-term, the impacts of behavioral shifts due to COVID-19 are minor compared to “known” long-term shifts such as decreasing car ownership, growing fuel efficiencies and a trend towards electric vehicles, whose impact is estimated to be three-to-nine times higher than the pandemic’s by 2050. View the full article
McDermott International, Ltd announced that its CBandI Storage Solutions business has been awarded a contract by Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila Inc. (AGandP) for the engineering, procurement and construction of an LNG storage tank for AGandP's Philippines LNG import and regasification terminal, currently under construction in Batangas, Philippines. View the full article
McDermott has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract from QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipelines and cables project. View the full article
McDermott will design, procure, fabricate, hook up and commission a platform and jacket. The company will also provide design, installation, and commissioning services for a 32-inch gas pipeline that will connect the platform to a gas processing facility operated by Shell. View the full article
Under a contract awarded to McDermott in January 2024 by Santos, the company provided engineering, procurement, removal, and transportation of the platform topsides, substructure, and associated items to an onshore facility for dismantling and disposal. View the full article
African energy sector investment platform Energy Capital & Power has created a coalition with Mauritania’s Energy Ministry and NOC to attract foreign stakeholder interest in the country’s potential renewable projects and 28 offshore blocks that are open for bids. View the full article
Matador executives on a Wednesday earnings conference call with analysts credited the better-than-expected well performance to drilling efficiency improvements such as crews spending less time drilling wells and hydraulic fracturing more wells simultaneously. View the full article
Matador executives on a Wednesday earnings conference call with analysts credited the better-than-expected well performance to drilling efficiency improvements such as crews spending less time drilling wells and hydraulic fracturing more wells simultaneously. View the full article
Matador expects to have over 190,000 net acres in the Delaware basin, part of the greater Permian basin, producing over 180,000 boed, with proved reserves exceeding 580 MMboe. The enterprise value of the combined company is projected to exceed $10 billion. View the full article
The U.S. Energy Department awarded a second batch of crude oil from the strategic reserve to Marathon Petroleum Corp. as part of the Biden administration’s effort to lower energy costs. View the full article
Marathon Oil will file the vote results of the special stockholder meeting in a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies to expect the transaction to close late in the fourth quarter of 2024. View the full article
In a lawsuit filed Monday in New York state court, Martin Siegel says the Conoco deal could deprive Marathon investors of more than $6 billion in value. He further alleges Marathon, its directors and financial adviser Morgan Stanley, misrepresented the deal in a proxy statement recommending shareholders back it. View the full article
Contrary to the tone of some news coverage, an analyst at Evercore ISI sees the overnight news that Senator Manchin convened a bipartisan group, together with Senator Murkowski (R-AK), to discuss a bipartisan energy bill, as bad news for the prospects of energy legislation before the midterm elections. View the full article
Senator Joe Manchin has told the White House and congressional leaders that he will not support including a key clean-power provision in the Democrats’ spending package, putting at risk a central element of the legislation designed to fight climate change, according to a person familiar with the matter. View the full article
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is enlisting the help of energy-industry executives to marshal Republican support for his plan to speed up the process of getting federal approvals for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter. View the full article
Energy Workforce continues to digest the potential reconciliation deal — the “Inflation Reduction Act” — in the Senate. Initial thoughts are mixed; some provisions may be beneficial to our sector while others will be negative. View the full article
MAN PrimeServ – the after-sales brand of MAN Energy Solutions – will offer a retrofit package for the conversion of conventional MAN four-stroke engines already in the field to dual-fuel methanol operation. 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.
