Production

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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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September 30, 2024
Equatorial Guinea has bolstered the work of its national oil company with a $350 million contract award to Petrofac in April. It also plans to rely on other producers operating in the country including Chevron, Marathon Oil and Kosmos Energy to raise output. It recently held talks with oil trader Trafigura Group over financing.
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September 2024
As exploration and development activity increased in 2023, so did capital expenditures and mergers and acquisitions. Oil and gas companies have continued to increase their voluntary ESG disclosures.
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September 19, 2024
The growth has made the U.S. the world’s largest oil producer — pumping almost 50% more crude each day than Saudi Arabia. It’s “been good for the American consumer and good for national security,” said John Podesta, the senior adviser to the president for international climate policy.
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September 12, 2024
bp has chosen ABS to support its deepwater Kaskida project in the Gulf of Mexico. ABS will provide classification and engineering verification for the project's new semisubmersible production unit.
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September 11, 2024
Harris twice invoked the surge in U.S. crude and natural gas production in the televised proceedings — a striking embrace of the nation’s fossil fuel output for a candidate who more often touts her green credentials and history of attacking the oil and gas industry as California’s top prosecutor.
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September 10, 2024
Based on the report from its Vienna-based research department, the restart ought to be urgently needed. OPEC’s data suggest that world inventories should be depleting rapidly now and — unless the group opens the taps — face a substantial shortfall of more than 3 MMbpd in the fourth quarter.
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September 10, 2024
Chevron and NNPC signed documents on the conversion of five OMLs into four PPLs and twenty-six PMLs, in line with the new PIA terms, marking a significant step towards increasing domestic gas supply and expanding global market presence.
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September 09, 2024
The establishment of transparent and stable regulatory frameworks is crucial for attracting upstream investors, who are more likely to commit capital when they have clarity on the legal and regulatory environment, according to the African Energy Chamber.
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September 05, 2024
Key coalition members won’t now increase production by 180,000 bpd in October and November, according to a statement on OPEC’s website. Yet their longer-term plan to revive 2.2 MMbpd of idle supplies gradually over the course of a year remained in place, with the completion date pushed back two months to December 2025.
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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
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 30, 2024
The crane, built by heavy lifting firm Mammoet for tens of millions of dollars, is among the latest bets that rising energy consumption will require huge new equipment for years to come.
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August 29, 2024
This collaboration enables E&P companies to seamlessly access TGS' licensed production, completions, and cost data via the ComboCurve platform, with fully automated data integration that requires minimal technical infrastructure.
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August 28, 2024
Output rose to a record 362.6 MMboe, as Beijing pushed for increased production from its state-owned drillers to enhance energy security amid rising geopolitical tensions.
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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
China’s largest oil and gas driller said production rose to 905.5 MMboe in the period. Beijing has pushed its state-owned oil giants to invest heavily in production to help the nation meet energy security goals.
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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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August 27, 2024
Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum appointed energy economist Victor Rodriguez Padilla to lead state-owned oil driller and refiner Petroleos Mexicanos as her administration looks to revive the company’s flagging production and trim its nearly $100 billion debt burden.
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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 27, 2024
Crude production grew to 1.41 MMbpd in the second quarter, compared with 1.22 MMbpd a year earlier. Daily oil production in Nigeria is expected to rise to about 2 MMbpd by the end of this year, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, executive vice president of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.’s upstream division, said last week.
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