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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
Petrobras is pushing to extract as much oil as possible from its existing fields in Brazil while simultaneously hunting for new reserves to prevent production from starting to decline in the 2030s. View the full article
Energy and marine consultancy ABL has completed its scope of work as marine warranty surveyor (MWS) to support the successful transport and re-installation of the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Toscana, off the coast of Livorno, Italy. View the full article
The world’s largest oil company is mulling asset disposals as a way of maintaining its $75 billion of annual dividend payments, almost all of which go to the Saudi government. That payout -- the biggest of any listed company in the world -- became harder to sustain after the coronavirus pandemic caused crude prices to plunge last year. View the full article
Shale, and not the pandemic, was responsible for the initial oil-market crash of 2020, Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield said at an industry summit. He added that the cartel, frustrated at U.S. producers’ success in taking market share from OPEC, allowed prices to tumble. View the full article
World consumption will once again reach 100 million barrels a day in the second half of 2022 as developed economies bring the virus under control, the International Energy Agency said, in its first detailed outlook for the year ahead. View the full article
Leveraging an intelligent and dynamic downhole automated control system that instantly interprets and acts on data, Schlumberger continues to advance its digital offering enhancing well construction performance. View the full article
Halliburton Company and VoltaGrid LLC have entered into a multi-year contract with Aethon Energy to deploy an advanced, all-electric fracturing solution in the Haynesville Shale. View the full article
Royal Dutch Shell Plc faces a growing campaign against its plans to conduct a seismic survey of potential oil and gas reservoirs off South Africa’s rugged coastline. View the full article
European refiners continue to lap up North Sea crude to seek replacements for Russian oil in response to the war in Ukraine. View the full article
Ecuador’s oil production is likely to halt completely within 48 hours if road blocks and vandalizing of oil wells continue, the Energy Ministry said in an emailed statement. View the full article
European oil major Shell Plc cautioned that Europe may have to brace for a string of winters with exorbitant power bills and electricity rationing as Russia squeezes gas supplies. View the full article
The Nigerien nationals, who worked for the local affiliate of China National Petroleum Corp., were at Benin’s Sèmè Kpodji port to control the loading of crude for export, the ruling junta known as Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland, said in a statement late Saturday. View the full article
Recent exploration in deepwater and neighboring regions has revealed significant potential in the Cretaceous channel sand plays and shelf clastics above the carbonate platform. Untapped potential also exists in the carbonate platform and syn-rift areas. View the full article
ADNOC is the third major industrial partner to join Exxon’s project, which would produce 1 Bcf of hydrogen per day and 1 million tons of ammonia a year. JERA Co., Japan’s biggest power, provider signed a non-binding agreement in March to buy half of the ammonia and in June Air Liquide SA said it could use its pipelines. View the full article
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has imposed more than $1 million in fines on operators and businesses within the state’s oil and gas industry. View the full article
Fulkrum has announced the launch of its new entity in Iraq. This significant milestone comes as Fulkrum secures a multi-million USD contract to provide surveillance services for a major gas hub development project in the region. View the full article
With the takeover by Chrysaor expected to complete by the end of March, Premier Oil will start trading under its new name, Harbour Energy Plc, on April 1. Putting behind it a multibillion-dollar debt pile, the firm should be well-positioned to ride the recovery in oil demand and boost investor returns. View the full article
The unprecedented oil inventory glut that amassed during the coronavirus pandemic is almost gone, underpinning a price recovery that’s rescuing producers but vexing consumers. View the full article
Norway, Western Europe’s biggest oil producing nation, plans to expand its green energy industry and strengthen its power grid, but isn’t willing to budge when it comes to exploiting its oil and gas resources. View the full article
ConocoPhillips is marketing its Williston Basin oil assets for a potential sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter. View the full article
Qatar, the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, said it’s “unhappy” prices are so high but is producing at maximum capacity. View the full article
OPEC and its allies will discuss their response to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus at their meeting this week, although their knowledge of the potential impact on oil markets remains limited. View the full article
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned companies not to bend to Russia’s demands to pay for gas in rubles, as the continent scrambles to respond to Moscow’s move to start switching off supplies. View the full article
The Ministry of Petroleum of the Republic of Niger announced the country has reached a new milestone in furthering the regional gas market through the progressing construction of the multi-billion Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline alongside Algeria and Nigeria. 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.
