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Maersk Drilling extended a drilling agreement with Aker BP ASA in a $1 billion five-year contract, securing a major revenue source. View the full article
The recovery of the shale patch workforce is still years in the making despite the frothy profits that rallying crude prices are generating for U.S. oil companies and their contractors. View the full article
The potential emergency order that Biden is mulling would unlock broad executive powers to propel clean-energy construction, restrict oil drilling and curb fossil fuel use. View the full article
As global natural gas markets continue to tighten and Europe braces for a challenging winter, the American Petroleum Institute and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers released a new analysis of Europe’s natural gas market and highlighted the immense potential of U.S. LNG to help Europe strengthen its energy security. View the full article
Chevron’s pledge of “ever-cleaner energy” amounts to so-called greenwashing because it hides the reality that the company’s production plans may end up increasing absolute emissions, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by Global Witness, Greenpeace USA and Earthworks. View the full article
Bonanza Creek Energy and Extraction Oil and Gas will combine in an all-stock merger of equals, a deal worth about $2.6 billion, the companies announced. The combined company will be called Civitas Resources, Inc. and will be the largest pure-play energy producer in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin. View the full article
Oil companies will produce 20,000 barrels a day more than previously forecast for this year, at 11.1 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said in a report on July 7th. View the full article
Royal Dutch Shell is gearing up to restart oil pipelines off the U.S. Gulf Coast, potentially moving the region’s top driller one step closer to restoring some production shut by Hurricane Ida. View the full article
Canadian heavy crude’s price collapsed at the U.S. trading hub of Cushing as refiners shun heavy and higher-sulfur crude for lighter grades that are less expensive to process in refineries. View the full article
Everyone may be back to watching the daily number of coronavirus cases as the omicron variant spreads through Europe, but the energy market is focusing on a more traditional gauge of worry: the temperature. View the full article
National Ocean Industries Association President Erik Milito said Interior has had 16 months to fulfill its statutory obligation to develop and maintain an offshore oil and gas leasing program and it has failed. View the full article
Nigeria’s state-owned energy firm will now operate as a commercial entity without relying on government funding and direct controls, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday. View the full article
Offshore operators across the globe continue to push ahead with their Energy Transition strategies, seeking new, innovative ways to improve sustainability while simultaneously reducing costs and increasing efficiency. At Siemens Energy, we are seeing first-hand a willingness from customers to embrace new technologies and rethink traditional ways of working on a truly unprecedented scale. View the full article
The Senate’s 51-40 vote underscored deep opposition from Republicans who worry Haaland’s criticism of fossil fuels means she will discourage oil development across hundreds of millions of acres of federal land under the Interior Department’s control. View the full article
Schlumberger and NOV announced a collaboration to accelerate automated drilling solutions adoption by oil and gas operators and drilling contractors. The agreement will enable customers to combine Schlumberger surface and downhole drilling automation solutions with NOV’s rig automation platform to deliver superior well construction performance. View the full article
To achieve the goal announced last month, about half of the emission cuts would need to come from capturing carbon at oil sands sites and sequestering it deep underground, which may require as much as two-thirds government capital like in Norway, Mark Little, chief executive office of Suncor Energy Inc., said in an interview. View the full article
Phillips 66 may idle a New Orleans-area refinery that suffered so much damage during Hurricane Ida that repairs may be too costly, according to people familiar with the operation. View the full article
European natural gas and power prices dropped after more signals from President Vladimir Putin that Russia will send extra gas to the continent next month. View the full article
Libya may introduce contracts with private oil companies that would give bonuses to those that meet targets and penalize those that don’t, as the OPEC member tries to raise output to 1.4 million barrels a day by mid-2022. View the full article
Around half of Gazprom PJSC’s foreign clients have complied with a request from Russia’s president to open accounts with Gazprombank JSC, according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. View the full article
The U.S. said Mexico’s nationalist energy policies violate North America’s free-trade deal and has requested dispute-settlement talks under the agreement. View the full article
TotalEnergies SE is investing about $1.5 billion in Qatar’s latest, mammoth natural gas development, just three months after buying into another of the nation’s expansion projects. View the full article
Futures in New York slipped 0.9% on Tuesday for a third straight session of losses, following a surge earlier this month to intraday levels last seen in 2018. Though there are indications of growing demand in some parts of the world, other regions -- notably Europe -- are lagging. View the full article
CGG has been awarded a major contract by Equinor for the seismic imaging of its Bacalhau 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering 409 sq km (158 sq mi) currently being acquired in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin. View the full article
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned the Kremlin needs to brace for falling revenues after a stress test showed the global clean energy push could lead to a significant decline in demand for fossil fuel exports. 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.
