Middle East
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October 15, 2024
Oil prices dropped and concerns over supply chain disruption were eased Tuesday after a report that Israel may avoid targeting Iran’s crude infrastructure. Traders’ focus is now turned back to the International Energy Agency’s expectations of a surplus early next year.
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October 11, 2024
The U.S. broadened the scope of its sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas sectors in response to a ballistic-missile attack on Israel, ramping up economic pressure on Tehran.
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October 10, 2024
Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has cut its oil production by half upon request from Baghdad, as the second-largest producer in OPEC tries to meet its output quota.
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October 10, 2024
Gulf Marine Services is pleased to announce the award of a new long-term contract in Europe and the extension of two existing contracts in the Middle East, bringing the backlog total to $505 million.
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October 07, 2024
McDermott has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract from QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipelines and cables project.
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October 07, 2024
Saudi Arabia is preparing to make a multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen and will launch a new company to produce the much hyped low-carbon fuel, according to people familiar with the matter.
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October 07, 2024
Libya’s oil production climbed above 1 MMbpd for the first time in two months, after the resolution of a political standoff in the OPEC nation that had curbed output and exports.
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October 04, 2024
Saja Energy has been named the official distributor of Neo Oiltools' neotork Vibration Management Tool in Saudi Arabia. This announcement follows Neo Oiltools’ recognition of Saja Energy, a Saudi Arabia-based provider of energy sector products and services.
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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.
