Business/economics
After years of market shocks, technological breakthroughs, and rising uncertainty, ATCE 2026 will provide new insights on how industry leaders and technical experts are preparing for the next era of the upstream business.
As the pace of new discoveries slows and high-quality prospects become harder to find, oil companies may need to rely more heavily on mature fields to maintain production and support future supply.
This guest editorial examines why geothermal projects require a different planning, financing, and development approach than traditional oil and gas projects.
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Sale to Total was completed 10 November -
The new deal will focus on developing Arctic onshore blocks in a region where a successful LNG project already exists.
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Shale-based associated gas production is behind the phenomenon. When oil prices do not support production, associated natural gas production also stops, with little to no consideration of natural gas prices.
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The supermajor said that it hopes to complete a megaproject in Kazakhstan before rerouting future spending to the Permian Basin and other developments.
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The move will give the new entity shareholding in PDO and remove PDO’s oil and gas expenditures from Oman’s state budget.
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Under the group’s historic April agreement, the easing of voluntary cuts would have been 2 million B/D, which would have been too much for markets to absorb.
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Sinopec recorded China’s highest daily output of shale gas at 20.62 million cubic meters (Mcm) at its Fuling shale-gas field in Chongqing, China, a key gas source for the Sichuan-East gas pipeline.
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OPEC’s easing of production cuts originally planned for January may be delayed until mid-2021 because of the global increases in COVID-19 cases occurring in November.
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While the individual circumstances of upstream companies may vary, they all must take decisive action to pivot away from “business as usual” and instead, pursue new growth models.
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Financial analytics company S&P Global and information provider IHS Markit announced they have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that values IHS Markit at $44 billion.
