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When managing multi-billion dollar offshore explorations for oil and gas reserves, discovering efficiencies is paramount. The efficiencies you find in your process greatly reduce costs – even a few minutes of downtime can cost a drilling operator thousands of dollars in lost productivity. View the full article
Donald Trump told Senate Republicans Thursday he would restart oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a move by the Biden administration to cancel leases in the frozen wilderness. View the full article
European energy companies have been grappling with competing forces — the negative impact of low natural gas prices and falling refining margins due to weak fuel demand, against the positive effect of higher crude prices amid OPEC+ supply cuts. For Eni, the upside outweighed the downside. View the full article
The 225,000 bpd Almirante Tamandare production vessel is on route and set to arrive in Brazil this year, and a similar unit is near completion at a Chinese shipyard and will arrive in 2025. SBM is also waiting for Petrobras to re-launch a tender for two FPSOs for an offshore project in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin. View the full article
(WO) — U.S. natural gas production from shale and tight formations decreased slightly in the first nine months of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, according the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). View the full article
The 2024 China-Africa Think Tank Energy Forum recently convened in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, where over 70 delegates discussed China-Africa collaboration in oil and gas, the energy transition and partnership opportunities. View the full article
While the Biden administration promises to create millions of jobs on the march to carbon-neutral energy, the work that will be created won't look, or pay, like that with which oil and gas crews are accustomed. View the full article
Two of the most prominent energy conferences – the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and NAPE Summit – announced a first-of-its-kind “Synergy in Energy” partnership. Both events will be held Aug.16-20 in Houston and guests will have the option to purchase a combo pass allowing full access to both conferences. View the full article
Schlumberger’s decarbonization plan leverages technology to address operational emissions, customer emissions, and carbon-negative actions. View the full article
U.S. gasoline futures jumped after Hurricane Ida barreled ashore in Louisiana, disrupting processing facilities. Oil reversed early gains as local rigs may have escaped significant damage and the OPEC+ producers’ cartel is expected on Wednesday to endorse a supply increase. View the full article
Clariant’s Oil and Mining Services business has officially opened its new, state-of-the-art Eagle Ford Technology, Sales and Operations Center near San Antonio, TX. View the full article
The Biden administration plans to slash the amount of biofuel that must be mixed into gasoline and diesel, according to people familiar with the matter, dealing a blow to ethanol producers and the agriculture industry. View the full article
It may have taken an investor rebellion, a pandemic and a war in Europe, but U.S. shale oil and gas producers are now on the cusp of making back their losses from the last decade. View the full article
West Texas Intermediate crude futures dropped as much as 10%, the most since March 9, while oil headed for its worst trading day in almost three months as recession fears iced markets, outweighing a fundamentally tight supply market. View the full article
Repair work to a vital Nigerian oil terminal is expected to be completed in late September, meaning almost two months of halted flows. View the full article
The Vaca Muerta, Spanish for dead cow, is an oil and gas field in western Argentina, which is said to have natural gas reserves that rival the Permian basin. Its shale oil production, currently at about 300,000 bpd, is expected to grow to more than 1 MMbpd by 2030. View the full article
Subsea7 has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract by bp for the Murlach development, formerly known as the Skua field, located 149 miles east of Aberdeen in the UK North Sea. View the full article
Tecnimont (MAIRE Group) has entrusted Tenaris with the supply of more than 24,500 tons of seamless pipes for a major gas project located in North Africa, designed to bolster energy security in Europe. View the full article
(WO) — Eni and KKR have signed an agreement under which KKR will take a 25% stake in Enilive’s share capital, for a total of $3.2 billion. The transaction brings together both companies' expertise to strengthen their energy businesses. View the full article
The 2024 China-Africa Think Tank Energy Forum recently convened in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, where over 70 delegates discussed China-Africa collaboration in oil and gas, the energy transition and partnership opportunities. View the full article
Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corporation, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California. View the full article
The American Petroleum Institute issued a statement from President and CEO Mike Sommers in advance of President Biden’s first joint address to Congress this evening. View the full article
A key spread between monthly oil futures contracts has blown out to the widest level in seven years as traders bet that U.S. crude inventories are about to get a whole lot tighter. View the full article
ChampionX announced that UNBRIDLED ESP Systems has introduced the SMARTEN PurePower Pro harmonic halter, a simple, cost-effective solution to effectively and efficiently manage harmonic distortion on local power grids throughout the life of unconventional oil wells. View the full article
In its October Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that natural gas spot prices at the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub will see the highest average winter price since 2007–2008. 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.
