Production
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September 2023
A novel approach to engineering for upstream projects is producing significantly better outcomes. The innovative techniques are focusing more attention on the design and effective control of engineering workflows to reduce NPT and lower costs.
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September 15, 2023
Libya had shut export ports in the east during the storm last weekend and had reopened them by Tuesday. NOC said then that oil production was running at 1.2 MMbpd.
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September 14, 2023
DeSantis will promise to roll back President Joe Biden’s green policies, many of which are embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act, the people familiar said.
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September 14, 2023
Cutting out fossil fuels “would lead to energy chaos on a potentially unprecedented scale, with dire consequences for economies and billions of people across the world,” Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais said Thursday in a statement.
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September 13, 2023
The country, which vies with Qatar as the top shipper of super-chilled liquefied natural gas (LNG), is facing looming pressures on domestic energy supply amid coal-fired power station closures and a lack of developments to offset declining output.
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September 13, 2023
Weeks before the overthrow of the president, Tullow gained approval to extend some of its licenses to 2046. It conducted a cashless asset swap earlier in the year with Perenco SA’s Gabon unit.
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September 13, 2023
Even if the two producers were to relax their curbs in early 2024, oil inventories will be severely depleted, leaving prices vulnerable to shocks, the IEA said. Brent futures climbed to 10-month high above $92 a barrel on Tuesday.
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September 12, 2023
World oil inventories, having depleted sharply this quarter, are set for an even steeper drop of roughly 3.3 MMbpd in the next three months, forecasts published in a report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries indicated on Tuesday.
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September 11, 2023
State-owned Nile Petroleum Corp. “is still a small entity” and requires funding to reach the capability of companies such as China National Petroleum Corp. and Petroliam Nasional Bhd., from which it had planned to take over licenses as it expands operations, South Sudan’s National Economic Conference said in a summary of recommendations.
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September 08, 2023
The agreement encompasses all the mineral rights, related facilities and infrastructure in Repsol’s Canadian upstream oil and gas business, including the assets in the Greater Edson area with a net production of 23 Mboed, of which most is gas.
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September 07, 2023
According to AIDEA, this latest action by the Department of the Interior shows arbitrary disregard for federal law, based on campaign trail rhetoric.
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September 07, 2023
From unplanned outages to maintenance activities, a plethora of events and circumstances contributed to a slight decrease in Africa's oil and condensate production during this period.
Webcast
Decarbonizing Oil and Gas Production by Getting Closer to the Action
September 27, 2023
SLB
Success in oil and gas has historically relied on maximizing production at the lowest cost per barrel. Now the imperative to decarbonize introduces a new critical performance metric—achieving ROI at the lowest carbon emissions per barrel. With increased pressure on majors, NOCs and independents alike, producing oil and gas with lowest possible greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint is quickly becoming a priority for both new and existing assets. But where to get started? In this webcast, SLB experts will dive into some root causes of GHG emissions in production operations.
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September 05, 2023
The leader of OPEC will continue its production cutback of 1 MMbpd until December, according to a statement published by the state Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday. Russia’s export reduction of 300,000 bpd will be extended for the same duration, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a separate statement.
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September 04, 2023
West Texas Intermediate rose as much as 1.9%. Brent also climbed. Prices also gained as U.S. jobs data indicated wages were rising slower than forecast, taking the pressure off the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates.
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September 04, 2023
The kingdom’s output fell by 170,000 bpd, exactly countering a combined increase from Iran and Nigeria, according to a Bloomberg survey. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries collectively pumped 27.82 MMbpd in August, or 40,000 more than the previous month.
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August 30, 2023
Since Russia started working with OPEC in 2017, Igor Sechin has consistently criticized the cooperation. The Rosneft CEO has pushed instead for the country to increase crude production and defend its market share from other global producers.
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August 30, 2023
The Saudis introduced the additional production curb in July — on top of cutbacks it’s already made with partners in the OPEC alliance — and has been reviewing its extension on a monthly basis.
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August 25, 2023
The “fragile five” of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela — which have struggled with output losses and disruptions for the past few years — will add roughly 900,000 bpd of production this year and at least the same in 2024.
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August 25, 2023
Easing sanctions could revive long-awaited drilling projects by Chevron Corp., the only U.S. oil company with operations in Venezuela, as well as those by European firms, including Eni SpA, Repsol SA and Maurel & Prom.
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August 25, 2023
The national vote ordered the shutdown of the 58,000 bpd field owned by national oil company Petroecuador, within a year. But area voters in the province of Orellana voted to keep the field operating and, according to Ecuador’s constitution, that local vote takes precedence,
