Field/project development
The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.
Agreements create long-term frameworks to advance offshore Suriname developments, aiming to streamline project delivery, reduce costs, and accelerate field development through early integration across the project life cycle.
ExxonMobil will retain its equity stakes in ongoing Bass Strait projects even as it hands off its operatorship responsibilities to Woodside Energy.
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The expansion project by QatarEnergy is expected to increase LNG production capacity to 142 mtpa when it goes online.
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The Nasr-115 expansion project, within ADNOC’s larger Ghasha concession, is part of a development aimed at increasing capacity to 115,000 BOPD by 2027.
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Woodside’s $12-billion gas project offshore Western Australia is expected to produce up to 8 mtpa once it’s complete.
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Engineering, procurement, construction, and installation awards made at the end of 2025 are expanding Saipem’s role in Turkey’s two largest offshore gas fields, plus Saudi Arabia’s Berri, Abu Safah, and Marjan oil fields and Qatar’s North Field gas giant in the Persian Gulf.
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The platform brings the field’s installed production capacity to 1.5 million BOPD.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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This paper describes a data-driven well-management strategy that optimizes condensate recovery while preserving well productivity.
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This paper addresses the difficulty in adjusting late-stage production in waterflooded reservoirs and proposes an integrated well-network-design mode for carbon-dioxide enhanced oil recovery and storage.
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This paper introduces a system that leverages sophisticated algorithms and user-friendly interfaces to tackle the challenge of developing complex, compartmentalized reservoirs effectively.
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This paper assesses the technical feasibility of geological carbon storage in the operator’s Brazilian brownfields, focusing on mature oil fields and associated saline aquifers.