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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FLITE Material Sciences says that its unique lasering process can be used on just about any type of material to make it either repel or attract water and oil. For an industry that deals with a lot of both, the technology has many potential use cases. -
The latest agreement between Wood and Equinor will begin January 2021. The contract follows recent agreements between the two companies for the Breidablikk development in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
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TechnipFMC and McPhy signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on the development and project implementation of hydrogen technology. Separately, McPhy and Chart Industries also signed a memorandum to scale up hydrogen projects across various markets.
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Forty-four percent of oil production and 30% of natural gas production remain shut in as operators return workers to offshore platforms. Production from undamaged facilities are being brought back online once all standard checks are completed. Facilities with damage may take longer to bring back up.
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Deloitte discusses the “great compression” of the oil and gas industry in which companies’ room to maneuver is restricted. How can the industry avoid a talent gap and stop an organizational challenge from becoming a precarious business problem?
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The majority of energy firms surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank don’t expect the business environment to significantly improve until 2022 or 2023.
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Chevron is initiating its layoffs of up to 15% of its global workforce of 45,000 first announced in late May by asking employees to reapply for positions. It closed its $4.1-billion acquisition of Noble Energy this week in which it gained 2,200 employees.
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The deal includes Sandvik’s exploration rigs, consumables, production stock, and selected trademarks and patents.
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Hurricane Delta leads to shut-ins of 92% oil and 60% gas production in GOM as landfall is expected today.
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GOM production shut-ins increased to 80% of the oil and 49% of natural gas. Hurricane Delta weakened from a category 4 storm to a category 2 storm on Wednesday and is expected reach the US Gulf later in the week.
