Management
At peak, 100,000 BOE/D is expected to flow to the Whale production semisumbersible, which largely replicates the Vito semi.
Operators remain cautiously optimistic in 2025, despite regulatory uncertainties.
The Libyan National Oil Company plans to tender 22 onshore/offshore exploration blocks in 2025 as it works to rebuild credibility with foreign oil producers.
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The $48.5-billion investment aims to keep the 30-year-old project in western Kazakhstan flowing for years to come.
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The asset combination is structured under Eni’s “satellite model,” which Eni has deployed successfully with similar upstream joint-venture deals in Norway and Angola.
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Oman’s Marsa LNG plant expects to drop its first LNG in Q1 2028 with production aimed at serving the marine fuel market (LNG bunkering) in the Gulf.
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The US upstream sector began 2024 with $51 billion in mergers and acquisitions though Enverus outlines why the dealmaking may slow down.
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The contractor will provide 17 pipeline centrifugal compressors for Aramco’s ongoing project in Saudi Arabia.
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The contracts kick off another round of development in deep and ultradeep water off India’s east coast in the Bay of Bengal.
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Dutch leaders have voted to halt all future production from the large gas field due to seismic activity linked to extraction operations.
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The latest signs that momentum is building in the geothermal space include military bases.
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The $6-billion Azeri Central East (ACE) platform is the first BP-operated offshore production facility controlled from onshore.
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Kampala is drawing now on international experience to sidestep the “oil curse” before first crude flows from its Lake Albert developments.