(Reuters) Karoon Energy announced deals worth $720 million on Thursday to buy stakes in certain offshore oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico from U.S.-based LLOG Exploration, in a move to diversify operations beyond Brazil and Australia. The oil and gas explorer said it would raise around A$480 million ($312.43 million) to fund a 30% stake purchase... Continue Reading →
Kosmos Energy Becomes Operator of ‘World-Scale’ Senegal Offshore Discoveries as BP Exits
Oil and gas company Kosmos Energy said Monday it had increased its working interest to 90% and assumed operatorship of the "world-scale " Yakaar-Teranga gas discoveries offshore Senegal. The increase in working interest follows BP’s exit from the field. According to Kosmos Energy, Yakaar-Teranga is one of the world’s largest gas discoveries in recent years... Continue Reading →
Shell, Trinidad Weigh Venezuela’s Natural Gas Investment Demands
(Reuters) Shell and Trinidad and Tobago's National Gas Company (NGC) are close to agreeing to credit Venezuela's state-run oil firm for its $1 billion investment in a gas field the three want to jointly develop, four people close to the discussions said. If agreed, the move could help speed a long-stalled offshore development. The U.S. in January... Continue Reading →
Suriname Oil Boom Back On Track As New Discoveries Excite Investors
Suriname, struggling with political unrest and a debt crisis, pins hopes on its oil sector after TotalEnergies delayed the billion-dollar final investment decision for Block 58. Latest appraisal drilling confirms that Block 58 could contain as much as 6.5 billion barrels of exploitable oil resources, boosting prospects for an oil boom similar to neighboring Guyana.... Continue Reading →
Colombia’s Ecopetrol hails new oil and gas discovery
(Reuters) - Colombia's majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol on Thursday reported a new oil and gas discovery in Putumayo province. The Alqamari-2 well was drilled to a depth of 9,287 feet and saw daily flow of 1,800 barrels of oil, Ecopetrol said in a statement. The oil is a light hydrocarbon. The rate of associated... Continue Reading →
Oil giants drill deep as profits trump climate concerns
(Reuters) - Oil and gas companies have intensified the hunt for new deposits in a long-term bet on demand, as they reinvest some of the record profits from the fossil fuel price surge driven by the Ukraine war, according to data and industry executives. The exploration revival - on the part of European majors in... Continue Reading →
Petrobras extends deadline for proposals for the new FPSO for the Albacora field in the Campos Basin
(PN) Petrobras has again extended the deadline for submitting proposals in the bidding process for contracting the new FPSO in the Albacora field. Now, the companies involved in the process will be able to file their bids until the 15th of September, as stated on the Petronect website. This is the second calendar postponement. As... Continue Reading →
Stamp of approval for huge Mexican Zama oil field development plan lays the foundation for $4.5 billion investment
Mexico’s hydrocarbon regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), has greenlighted a unit development plan (UDP), which Pemex submitted on behalf of its partners – Wintershall Dea, Talos Energy, and Harbour Energy – for a giant oil field located in the Sureste Basin offshore Mexico. The Zama unit development plan (UDP) was submitted in March 2023 to Mexico’s... Continue Reading →
Rystad: Argentina’s Vaca Muerta could pump 1 mln bpd of crude by 2030
(Reuters) - Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation could produce more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil by 2030, consultancy Rystad Energy said on Wednesday, but cautioned this relied on the country solving transport capacity bottlenecks. This could see the formation, the size of Belgium located in Argentina's vast Patagonian region, nearly... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Eyes Global Expansion as Brazil Hopes Fade, Sources Say
(REuters) Brazil's Petrobras may look abroad for future growth, two sources with knowledge of the state-run firm's plans told Reuters, after environmental regulators dashed its hopes of exploring near the Amazon River where it had aimed to make its first major domestic oil discovery in over a decade. Petroleo Brasileiro, as the company is formally known,... Continue Reading →