Asset Management
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With $9.6 billion in assets in the market, the focus is shifting from who is exiting Southeast Asia to who is positioning for entry through acquisition, according to Rystad Energy.
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The round included a near-$1 billion signature bonus on a Campos Basin block awarded to a Total-led consortium. -
Heavy deal-making since 2015 by the two majors has resulted in very different upstream portfolios.
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The SPE Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition is fast becoming one of the essential venues for the energy industry’s growing array of startups. All startups awarded a cash prize this year for the viability of their offering call Alberta home.
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A month after it got out of Norway, Bloomberg reports that the company is working with advisers on a potential Malaysian sale, which could raise as much as $3 billion. ExxonMobil plans to divest around $15 billion in nonstrategic assets by 2021.
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As Oxy looks to divest billions in assets and focus more on its prime US shale fields, it sheds itself of the ISND and ISSD fields off the eastern coast of Doha. In announcing the lease loss last year, Oxy said the fields need significant infrastructural investment.
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Phase 1 of the North Sea megaproject—Norway’s largest offshore development since the 1980s—has come on stream. Johan Sverdrup is expected to produce 660,000 BOPD at its peak.
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EP Energy is now one of at least 200 North American exploration and production companies to have filed for bankruptcy since 2015.
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Dudley’s retirement will end an almost decade-long tenure in which he oversaw the company through the aftermath of the Macondo disaster and a generational oil-price slump.
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Speaking on the final day of ATCE 2019 in her home province of Alberta, Shauna Noonan unveiled the theme of her 2020 SPE presidency, “SPE Strong: Strengthen the Core.”
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Aker BP expects the unmanned facility, a further development of the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea, to recover 60 million BOE. Startup is expected sometime this fall.
