Asset Management
LibertyStream has signed a feedstock agreement with Goodnight Midstream to support its first commercial lithium carbonate facility in North Dakota's Bakken, advancing plans to extract battery-grade lithium from produced water.
The loan to Arena Energy will generate an estimated 38,600 B/D in new production from 22 platforms in the Gulf.
This article from Murphy Oil outlines a modernization effort that resulted in increased scenario simulation capacity by five to 10 times.
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The unmanned development is expected to add 80 million BOE of production to the aging Norwegian North Sea field. Aker BP said it aims to produce 1 billion BOE from Valhall over the next 40 years. -
With production set to begin from the large Leviathan field by the end of this year, the Israeli government signed off on the final permits to allow for its first exports. Leviathan contains approximately two-thirds of all the gas resources discovered offshore Israel so far.
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Total has agreed to acquire interests in two blocks in the offshore Kwanza Basin from Angola’s state-owned Sonangol and has received an extension on its offshore Block 17 production licenses.
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BP has signed a deal with a joint venture between Petrofac and SOCAR, the Azeri state oil company, to support its osshore and onshore operations in the Caspian Sea. These include the offshore Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli and Shah Deniz fields, along with the associated Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the South Caucasus pipeline, and the Western Route export pipeline.
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Chevron has signed a deal with Daewood Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to build a hull for the semi-submersible floating production (FPU) unit at its Anchor projec tin the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract maked the South Korean shipyard's first platform order in 5 years.
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The latest move to consolidate the US shale sector will add 1,500 drilling locations to the buyer's portfolio. It also reflects that all-stock or mostly-stock deals are now the sector’s preferred acquisition vehicle.
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The company said it will avoid the pumping business's “structurally disadvantaged position” and instead focus on well servicing and water logistics.
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The company also secured $2.6 billion in exit financing facilities, including a $450-million revolving credit facility, as well as a $195-million letter of credit facility and more than $900 million of liquidity.
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Lower oil prices and capital discipline are expected to result in a double-digit drop in shale and tight oil spending, while deepwater momentum is seen continuing. This comes as “massive investments” will be needed in the next decade to meet growing oil demand.
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With a $10 million commitment from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a research initiative with the goal of creating a zero-emissions world by using oil and gas to create clean energy.
