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SPE’s newest technical community, the Critical Minerals Technical Section, aims to connect petroleum expertise with emerging opportunities to extract lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals from subsurface reservoirs and industrial brines.
Companies largely focused on deepwater acreage in the second Gulf lease sale held under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Initiative identified as the single highest-priority action to support geothermal capital market creation following a 2-year expert analysis of financial barriers to exponential-scale geothermal development.
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The project aims at boosting India’s domestic oil production by 11% and gas production by 15%. -
The project’s revised development plan now incorporates a carbon capture facility.
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Angola leaves OPEC after 16 years to leverage its oil resources for economic growth.
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Woodside Energy's Trion field offshore Mexico features a four-column semisubmersible FPU with a production capacity of 100,000 BOPD.
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Houston-based independents will combine to form a company with a production total above 500,000 BOE/D and valued at $21 billion.
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The producer’s Lime Rock and Venice discoveries were brought on stream in late December.
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The facility is destined for Shell’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico development.
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Located in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the Willow project is estimated to produce 180,000 BOPD at its peak.
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Energy storage is essential to a clean electricity grid, but aggressive decarbonization goals require development of long-duration energy storage technologies.
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The increasing demand for critical minerals—the building blocks of an electrified future—is creating opportunities for the oil and gas industry to apply its extensive knowledge, tools, and data to help meet the demand.
