Asset Management
Industry fundamentals continue to strengthen as rising utilization and scarce replacement capacity support higher rig valuations.
The GRMS system of standardization and classification for geothermal resources, led by a coalition of stakeholders in collaboration with Project InnerSpace and the Society of Petroleum Engineers, will be published in November.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei met with TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné and Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi in Paris to discuss Argentina’s energy sector, including projects linked to the Vaca Muerta shale formation and the development of the Argentina LNG export project.
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Malaysian oil company Petronas has hired Maersk Drilling’s rig Maersk Developer for a one-well exploration campaign off the coast of Suriname.
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Lukoil has begun wildcat drilling at an exploration well at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect structure, located north of the V.I. Grayfer field in the Caspian Sea.
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The calls for change and transition in the industry are ubiquitous and emanating from within and outside of the industry.
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Egypt has completed 12 petroleum agreements worth at least $1 billion in addition to a $19-million signature bonus for drilling 21 wells, said Tarek E-Molla, Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
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Petrobras started production of oil and natural gas from the shared deposit of Atapu, through platform P-70, in the eastern portion of the Santos Basin pre-salt, near the Búzios field offshore Brazil.
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CNOOC Ltd., a branch of the China National Offshore Oil Corp., said in late June it had made a discovery at Huizhou 26-6 in the eastern South China Sea.
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Aker BP, Equinor, and LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS have reached agreement on commercial terms to jointly develop the Krafla and Fulla region and the north of Alvheim area
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Italy’s Edison has cut $284 million from the sale of its E&P business to Energean after excluding Algerian and Norwegian assets from the deal.
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While it remains today only an idea, there are but a few barriers keeping an unmanned floater from being realized, according to one of the world’s leading offshore engineering firms.
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In 2004, US oil production was in decline, Facebook did not exist, and attitudes toward climate change were in flux. In years since, what has happened—and what’s important for the oil and gas industry of tomorrow?