Asset Management
After a record year for LNG project approvals in 2025, multiyear repairs to war-damaged liquefaction facilities in Qatar and the UAE threaten to slow the growth of global LNG capacity.
The declaration builds on a memorandum of understanding the partners signed with Egypt in May to process Block 10 gas at the country’s LNG export and domestic gas facilities.
Alongside the new subsea awards, Equinor strengthened its position in the 400-million-bbl Bay du Nord development by acquiring BP’s interest in the project.
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Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace. Research and advisory company Gartner predicts that, by 2024, these technologies will replace almost 69% of the manager’s workload. -
Alta Mesa Resources is not the biggest shale startup to go bankrupt, but was its early death rooted in petroleum engineering or financial engineering?
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One of my focus areas as SPE President is strengthening the feedstock of incoming talent into our industry.
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Wood Mackenzie expects the ongoing outbreak and disruption to the world’s second largest economy to be a one-off event, yet it could remove at least 500,000 B/D of crude demand in the short term.
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After 4-1/2 years out of service, the massive Wafra oil field in the Saudi-Kuwaiti Onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone, is set to resume production sometime soon and ensuring a smooth restart is no small order.
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While renewable energy sources are poised to see major growth, possibly displacing natural gas as the top source of electricity in the US, hydrocarbon production will remain above or near current historical highs until at least 2050.
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Topsides for the Peregrino C Platform in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil was installed by the world’s largest crane vessel, Heerema’s Sleipnir.
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What will 2020 look like for the oil and gas, energy, and petrochemical markets? Here are 10 observations from ADI Analytics that demonstrate just how global and complex the energy mix has become.
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BW Offshore plans to float its exploration and production unit BW Energy through an initial public offering in the first quarter of 2020.
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A partnership between academic researchers and two energy companies will build new evidence-based tools to enhance safety by examining whether simple exercises designed to increase mindfulness can reduce the risks.
