TotalEnergies

The firm’s latest analysis puts the bulk of the blame on a fragmented supply chain.

The $5.1 billion ultradeepwater project is Angola’s first integrated cross-block development and sits at the top of Azule’s Southern African portfolio.

Equinor and its partners’ investment in the Troll West Increased Gas Recovery North (TWIN) project aims to unlock around 11 Bcm of additional natural gas from the Troll field, with first production targeted as early as 2028.

The technology has passed its first phase of qualification, with 84 nodes placed on the seafloor at a depth of 2,000 m to acquire 4D seismic data in the pre-salt Santos Basin.

Working with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, the French supermajor is targeting improved seismic processing and artificial intelligence applications.

Formerly titled E&P Notes, this monthly snapshot of global E&P activity highlights ongoing developments worldwide.

The country’s foreign investment bid comes as Sonatrach launches its largest capital expenditure outlay—$60 billion to be spent from 2026 to 2030.

As AI drives record heat loads in data centers, immersion liquid cooling is gaining momentum, and energy companies are lining up to support it.

The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.

Technology and partnerships remain important, while phased approaches may supplant lengthy appraisal programs, experts said during CERAWeek.