Middle East
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October 04, 2024
Iran’s oil production has returned to almost full capacity, despite years of U.S. sanctions, with a tide of supply that looks increasingly vulnerable as tensions with Israel flare.
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October 04, 2024
Neo Oiltools, a creator of drilling performance tools for the oil and gas industry, announced today that Saja Energy, a Saudi Arabia-based provider of world-class energy sector products and services, is the official distributor of the neotork Vibration Management Tool in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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October 03, 2024
Libya has resumed oil production, restoring hundreds of thousands of barrels a day to global markets after an embargo was lifted by the country's eastern government. The move follows an easing of a political standoff that had sharply reduced output from the OPEC member.
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October 02, 2024
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. offered nearly $13 billion to buy Germany’s Covestro AG in what’s set to be the largest Middle Eastern acquisition of a European firm.
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September 30, 2024
ADNOC Drilling Company announced today the creation of the Turnwell joint venture with SLB and PattersonUTI and the acceleration of its 144 unconventional oil and gas well program, following the successful and efficient delivery of the first wells in the campaign.
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September 30, 2024
The JV will allow the three companies to leverage leading innovations in AI, smart drilling design, completions engineering and production solutions.
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September 27, 2024
The Onshore Block 2, located within the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi covering an area of over 7300 km2, is PETRONAS Abu Dhabi’s third concession, following the Unconventional Block 5 in 2024 and the Unconventional Block 1 in 2022.
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September 26, 2024
In the nine months through March, South Sudan produced 150,000 bpd. This plunged 70% in the final three months of the fiscal year after its main export pipeline ruptured in February. Last week, President Salva Kiir’s office signaled progress in plans to restore production after a meeting with Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in Juba.
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September 18, 2024
Saipem’s scope of work involves the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of wellhead platforms’ topsides, wellhead platforms’ jackets, tie-in platform jacket and topside, rigid flowlines, submarine composite cables and fiber optic cables.
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September 15, 2024
Saipem’s scope of work encompasses the engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of six platforms as well as approximately 100 km of corrosion resistance alloy rigid subsea pipelines of 28’’ and 24’’ diameter, 100 km of subsea composite cables, 150 km of fiber optic cables and several other subsea facilities.
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September 02, 2024
The nation was pumping about 1 MMbpd before the halt order, with the vast majority of that coming from the east. Daily production in the past week plunged to about 450,000 bpd.
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September 02, 2024
Shell will sell Turkey’s state-owned Botas the equivalent of around 4 Bcmg per year starting in 2027, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said at a signing ceremony in Ankara. That’s about 8% of the country’s total gas demand in 2023, data from the national energy regulator show.
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September 02, 2024
Having analyzed PEBs based on their availability of remaining hydrocarbon resources, development cost, emissions and the availability of new energy sources such as wind and solar, together with their suitability for carbon storage, the Central Arabian and Rub Al Khali basins stand out as carbon-efficient, resource-rich basins with significant potential.
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August 28, 2024
Libya’s oil production has more than halved this week — and risks taking close to 1 MMbpd off the global market — as the country’s fields reduce operations amid a stalemate over who controls the central bank.
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August 27, 2024
Production at the El-Feel field in southwestern Libya has stopped, according to people familiar with the matter, while local operators are indicating they’ll gradually halt pumping nationwide. The move to freeze all production and exports announced Monday by the eastern Libyan authorities came in response to a decision by the internationally recognized government in the west to replace central bank Governor Sadiq Al-Kabir.
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ADNOC to deploy “industry-leading” AI-enabled process optimization technology across upstream assets
August 27, 2024
Neuron 5 uses advanced AI models and deep learning algorithms to predict maintenance needs and monitor equipment performance by interpreting data, such as pressure, temperature and vibration, received from sensors on critical equipment.
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August 26, 2024
Qatar, which is already Kuwait’s biggest supplier with an existing contract running to 2035 to supply as much as 3 MMtpa, will start shipments from the new deal in January.
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August 20, 2024
The platform is the heaviest and most powerful China-made international offshore oil and gas platform in Qingdao, Shandong.
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August 16, 2024
Saudi Arabia is expected to put less money into the oil industry than initially predicted in its goal to invest $1 trillion in strategic sectors by the end of the decade.
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August 13, 2024
Inclusion in MSCI indexes provides greater visibility among global investors and increases the credibility of the stock in financial markets. Inclusion of the ADNOC Drilling stock is expected to boost liquidity, given the expected passive inflows as well as potential appetite from active institutional investors tracking MSCI indexes.
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August 12, 2024
To tap some of these new consumers, parent company ADNOC is building a new plant at Ruwais that will more than double the UAE’s LNG export capacity when it starts operating in 2028. Oman and Qatar are also expanding their LNG production facilities.
