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Mozambique will have to wait a little longer to join the ranks of the world’s liquefied natural gas exporters, after a vessel that was destined for its first offshore production platform changed course at the weekend and sailed away. View the full article
A sustained uptick in commodity prices on the back of a recovering global economy is set to bolster a turnaround in industry fundamentals over the coming 12 to 18 months. View the full article
The Mineral Resources Professional Council (MRPC) concluded that it supports and will approve Petro Matad’s Plan of Development for the Block XX Exploitation License once certain technical clarifications have been provided. View the full article
MOL Pakistan has announced three new gas discoveries in the TAL Block through the Razgir-1 exploratory well. View the full article
MOL Group and Kazakhstani national oil company KazMunayGas (KMG) have signed today a cooperation agreement to jointly explore opportunities in the oil, gas and petrochemical sector. View the full article
The commercial agreements amend the existing ACG production sharing agreement (PSA) framework, enabling the parties to progress the exploration, appraisal, development and production from the gas reservoirs of the ACG field. ACG non-associated gas resources are believed to be significant, with up to 4 Tcf (ca. 112 Bcm) in place. View the full article
The commercial agreements amend the existing ACG production sharing agreement (PSA) framework, enabling the parties to progress the exploration, appraisal, development and production from the gas reservoirs of the ACG field. ACG non-associated gas resources are believed to be significant, with up to 4 Tcf (ca. 112 Bcm) in place. View the full article
MOL Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) in Istanbul to form a strategic partnership for hydrocarbon exploration and production. View the full article
The prince's plan to diversify the economy of the world’s largest crude exporter spans more than 10,000 square miles in a remote area of Saudi Arabia's northwest. It’s described on its website as “a bold and audacious dream” that will become a hub for new technologies and businesses. View the full article
MODEC, Inc. plans to open a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with more than 200 new positions in engineering and other corporate support functions to fill by early 2025. View the full article
Miros has launched its new wave and vessel motion prediction technology — PredictifAI, which delivers a monitoring solution that automatically adapts to varying sea and weather conditions. View the full article
The pipeline, which will carry Canadian oil-sands crude from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has faced fierce opposition from indigenous and environmental groups, who clashed with law enforcement last week. View the full article
The Middle East is set to lead capacity growth in the global gas processing industry from planned and announced projects between 2021 and 2025 and account for around 37% to the global gas processing capacity growth by 2025, GlobalData projects. View the full article
Led by $2.59 billion asset transaction with BP Exploration (Epsilon), Middle East and Africa’s oil and gas industry saw a drop of 32.92% in deal activity during Q1 2021, when compared to the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. View the full article
Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum appointed energy economist Victor Rodriguez Padilla to lead state-owned oil driller and refiner Petroleos Mexicanos as her administration looks to revive the company’s flagging production and trim its nearly $100 billion debt burden. View the full article
Slim’s Grupo Carso agreed to a deal with Mexico’s state-run Petroleos Mexicanos to explore and extract from Lakach, a deepwater field discovered in 2007 about 98 km (61 miles) southeast of the city of Veracruz. Carso will team with Houston-based Talos Energy and a local unit of Spain’s Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA to develop Lakach. View the full article
Slim has consistently ramped up his investments in Talos and US refiner PBF Energy Inc. over the past year in a sign that the 84-year-old billionaire sees plenty of upside in the oil and gas industry. In his native Mexico, Slim has partnered with Talos to explore one of the country’s most promising new discoveries in decades. View the full article
The investments add to a buying spree this year for the Slim family, which continues to pour money into bets on oil exploration, production and refining both at home and across the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. View the full article
AMLO has turned the Texas freeze crisis into a rallying cry for more energy independence, weaponizing it to advance a nationalist agenda that has implications beyond natural gas imports and threatens tens of billions of dollars of investments in renewable energy by U.S., Canadian and European energy companies. View the full article
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. View the full article
As the government pushes for a constitutional reform to electricity laws, Finance Minister Ramirez de la O said now “would be a little late” to change overall energy laws that last decade gave private companies access to the Mexican market. View the full article
Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market. 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
Although natural gas exports from Mexico are today non-existent, seeing as it produces too little of the power-plant fuel to supply its own domestic needs, the country’s proximity to booming U.S. reserves positions it well to supply American gas to hungry buyers in Europe and Asia. View the full article
Lowering Mexico's tax demands on Pemex, its biggest taxpayer, could help the oil giant reorder its finances as it struggles with a $110.3 billion debt load, sinking production, and some of the highest tax obligations of any oil company in the world. View the full article
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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.
