Field/project development
Saipem has launched offshore operations in Suriname, while Repsol is expanding exploration efforts in Venezuela and partnering with MOL Group and TPAO in the Mediterranean. Petronas, Shell, and Murphy Oil reported new discoveries in Suriname, Namibia, and Côte d’Ivoire, respectively, as Occidental acquired a stake offshore Trinidad and Tobago and BP began gas producti…
The next wave of unconventional growth will likely come from basins in Argentina, the Middle East, Australia, and elsewhere, fueled by expertise gained from shale plays in North America.
The $5.1 billion ultradeepwater project is Angola’s first integrated cross-block development and sits at the top of Azule’s Southern African portfolio.
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A series of major advances will move Phase One of the Alaska LNG Project from the development phase into execution. -
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 describes an auto-adaptive workflow that leverages a complex interplay between machine learning, physics of fluid flow, and a gradient-free algorithm to enhance the solution of well-placement problems.
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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.
