Asset Management
Two new US Department of Energy funding programs focus on improving shale recovery, mitigating produced-water risks, managing sour gas, and enhancing facility efficiency.
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
The transaction broadens the company's North Sea footprint with long-life assets that boost production and reserves.
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More than 30 oil and gas companies took part in the licensing round, which focused on mature areas that can be developed using existing infrastructure. -
The two companies have collaborated since 2015 on various projects, but COVID-19 brought Velentium and Oasis Testing together for a unique purpose—to quickly ramp up the manufacturing capacity for critical, life-saving ventilators.
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After a line of four discovery wells in Suriname, Total and Apache are going off trend with a well to see if the potentially huge play extends north as well.
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This year gas is expected to look only a bit better, but after 2019 that is a relief.
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The Dutch supermajor will take on a nonoperating stake in the largest exploration block in the North Argentine Basin, which remains largely unexplored.
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Sinopec is moving on to Phase 2 at its Weirong shale-gas development in Sichuan province after having completed Phase 1 by drilling 56 new wells over the past year and building new infrastructure to support increased natural gas production.
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The firm has been working to spin off Technip Energies, creating two companies, with Technip Energies focused on engineering and technology and the remaining TechnipFMC focused on providing integrated technology and services.
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BP agreed 1 year ago to sell its interests to Premier Oil for $625 million. The companies later restructured the deal and BP lowered its cash value to $210 million. The transaction fell through after Premier was taken over by Chrysaor in October 2020.
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On a pro forma basis the newly combined oil company is expected to have an output of around 280,000 B/D, making it one of the top producers in the Permian Basin.
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Within the race for renewables, oil and gas companies are finding themselves in a proverbial rut as they reassess existing profitable models with future energy transition plans. What adds more difficulty is the question of speed in which companies pursue this conundrum.
