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The firm’s latest analysis puts the bulk of the blame on a fragmented supply chain.
The supermajor said the fields are not expected to contribute meaningfully to its production profile by 2030.
Output is rising fast in the South American shale play and putting Argentina on a course to soon reach 1 million B/D.
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Of the total $380 billion of projected investments, about 60% ($234 billion) is likely to come from producing assets, which have two main spending channels: facility and well capital expenditures. -
The good news for next year is no one is predicting a repeat of what happened this year. The bad news is the outlooks offers little incentive to find any more oil.
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The cluster is the third largest in Brazil and the fourth largest in the Americas, with potential for further development. It is the third offer the company has made over the past five weeks.
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Gulfport Energy is seeking to eliminate more than $1 billion in debt and to cancel or renegotiate firm transportation contracts that it said drove it to enter bankruptcy protection.
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Bonanza Creek plans to buy HighPoint Resources and said it hopes to maintain an output of 50,000 BOE/D by focusing only on drilled-but-uncompleted wells in the near term.
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With the acquisition of Schlumberger’s rod lift business, Lufkin gains several products, brands, and key proprietary software.
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To go big on capturing CO2, the oilfield service company is acquiring a company that specializes in going small.
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Two contracts awarded for flowlines and wellheads at ADNOC’s Abu Dhabi oil fields are expected to be completed in 5 years. A third contract to develop a bypass system for its Jebel Dhanna and Fujairah terminals is expected to be completed in 30 months.
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Hess Corp. sold its stake in the Shenzi development to BHP for $505 million to help pay its share of the cost of developing discoveries offshore Guyana.
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Petrobras began negotiations with SBM Offshore to contract the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) Almirante Tamandaré to be installed in the Búzios field in the Santos Basin.
