Exploration/discoveries
As Egypt’s largest oil and gas investor, Eni is ramping up its 2026–2027 drilling campaign with new investments cross the Mediterranean offshore, Nile Delta, Western Desert, and offshore Sinai to strengthen the country’s role as a regional gas and LNG export hub.
Oil prices are high, but spending has not caught up—yet. Meanwhile, exploration strategies are changing around the world toward a lower-risk model, and the frenzied pace of US M&A has very much cooled off.
This energy roundup highlights major global developments, including Western Australia’s approval of Woodside’s Browse gas project, TotalEnergies’ FID for Cyprus’ first gas development, and new oil and gas discoveries offshore Colombia, Namibia, and Angola. Read the latest updates on LNG projects, exploration successes, seismic surveys, and strategic upstream investmen…
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Petroleum Development Oman is building infrastructure for the project’s initial phase. -
Statfjord has produced 5.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent over its four-plus decades online.
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New discovery pair drilled near Fram field.
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New find located in Shell’s prolific Perdido Corridor in western US Gulf.
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State-run Staatsolie retains its 40% stake in Block 5.
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Phase 2 production should reach 40,000 BOE/D by mid-2022.
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Onshore stake valued at $1.1 billion.
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Compared with 2020, the largest discoveries made last year may hold just a third of the oil and gas reserves, according to new data from Westwood Global Energy Group.
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Field cluster in the South China Sea expected to produce over 45,000 B/D of oil in 2023.
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UK-based oil company pulls out of South American country after non-commercial finds.
