Exploration/discoveries
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.
Co-owner Chevron confirmed the find at the Bandit prospect offshore Louisiana and suggested it may become a subsea tieback to existing faciltiies operated by Occidental Petroleum.
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State-run company will direct $2 billion towards frontier drilling in the area. -
Petroleum Development Oman is building infrastructure for the project’s initial phase.
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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.
