Asset Management
Talos Energy founder Tim Duncan has been named executive chairman of newly formed 1947 Oil&Gas, which will focus on acquiring and developing mature, shallow-water assets through its buyout of Renaissance Offshore. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2026.
Operators aren’t rushing to drill, even as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives oil prices up.
The following three papers show challenges and potential solutions across various stages of the deepwater well-development cycle from a variety of deepwater basins across the world.
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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.
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The contractor will install the flowline and related subsea equipment later this year for the Talos Energy-led development.
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If optimized to scale, fast fission reactors could play a role in reducing emissions in field operations by producing carbon-free electricity.
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The updated joint development agreement allows the companies to carve out new markets while they complete pilot testing at a demonstration plant in the Netherlands.
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Operator TotalEnergies wants to rework the EPC contract packages after initial bids challenged project economics.