Field/project development
TotalEnergies has signaled its intent to reenter Venezuela after a 5-year absence, while Halliburton has teamed up with Brazil’s independent natural gas operator Evena and Venezuelan engineering firm WESCA to also assess business opportunities.
With funding opportunities improving, developers and researchers are focused on shortening project learning cycles and reducing uncertainty to attract more capital and speed deployment.
The US Department of Energy has awarded more than $99 million to 21 projects that will advance geothermal development through field-scale testing of next-generation technologies and exploration drilling programs across the US.
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Vår Energi and partners have officially sanctioned the Previously Produced Fields Project in the Greater Ekofisk Area. The redevelopment is expected to add high-value barrels starting in 2028, extending the production life of one of Norway’s key offshore regions.
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The company engineered, designed, and manufactured multiple internal floating roof systems and tank-top equipment packages for TotalEnergies’ new storage terminal in Equatorial Guinea.
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Fugro’s entry into the UK’s small modular reactor market follows its breakthrough in the US, where it secured a contract in February to perform a geoscience site investigation for the recommissioned Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan.
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The new development is estimated to hold 46 million bbl of recoverable oil and is planned to start up in late 2028.
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The project in the US Gulf is expected to add about 15,000 BOEPD to the deepwater Atlantis project at peak production.
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First oil is expected from Phase 1 of the project in 2028, with up to four more phases planned.
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The Gorgon Phase 3 project aims to counter declining reservoir pressure to sustain gas supplies to Western Australia’s domestic market and support LNG exports to Asia.
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The $100-billion project is widely considered the largest unconventional development outside of the US and is noted by Aramco as the largest nonassociated gas development in the kingdom.
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Alaskan oil is entering a renaissance driven by a predicted 13% upswing in 2026 production, the largest since the 1980s, and a possible reboot of LNG exports to Asia from the Kenai Peninsula, supplied via pipeline from the North Slope.
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This study presents a novel hybrid approach to enhance fraud detection in scanned financial documents.