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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ExxonMobil joins BP, Chevron, and TotalEnergies in greenlighting new investment projects in Iraq in 2025 as the government targets oil production of 6 million B/D by 2029. -
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters in the US plan to more than double the country’s liquefaction capacity by adding an estimated 13.9 Bcf/D between 2025 and 2029.
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TotalEnergies and the Danish Underground Consortium complete a 7-year effort to redevelop the Tyra field, lowering emissions and extending field life.
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Mozambique is poised to become Africa’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas when Coral Norte comes onstream in 2028.
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Australia’s H2Perth blue and green hybrid hydrogen project is expected to benefit from carbon credits from the offshore Bonaparte carbon storage facility where Inpex and TotalEnergies are drilling appraisal wells together with Woodside.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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The technology to desalinate and reuse produced water for cooling AI data centers in the Permian Basin exists, but addressing cost challenges remains critical to widespread adoption.
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This paper discusses cases from the North Sea and offshore California in which high-fidelity pressure and dynamics measurements, combined with high-speed telemetry, helped overcome complex geotechnical challenges.
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This paper describes an alternative lower-completion concept for developing Lower Wilcox reservoirs referred to as high-angle multifractured well design.
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This study explores the feasibility of implementing in-situ carbon dioxide recycling for sequestration as a fit-for-purpose developmental strategy for a Malaysian gas field characterized by an initial carbon-dioxide content of approximately 60%.
