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(OE) Malaysian FPSO leasing firm Yinson Production has acquired the Atlanta FPSO, a floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel that will serve as a production unit at Enauta's Atlanta field in Brazil. Yinson acquired the FPSO through the acquisition of AFPS B.V., the platform owner company. Back in February 2022, Brazilian oil firm Enauta bought... Continue Reading →
(OE) Spending on conventional oil and gas exploration is on the rise and is set to top $50 billion this year, led by offshore investments, however, discovery volumes are falling to new lows, despite the rising investments. This is according to Rystad Energy, a Norway-based energy industry intelligence group. Rystad's estimates show that in the... Continue Reading →
ANP announced that oil production hit a new record in June. The agency released today the Monthly Oil and Gas Production Bulletin for the month of June, bringing consolidated data on national production. During the period, a total of 4.324 million barrels of oil equivalent per day were produced, of which 3.367 million barrels per... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - BP's (BP.L) second-quarter profit slumped 70% from a year earlier to $2.6 billion, missing forecasts, as refining margins and oil trading income fell, but still allowing the energy giant to boost its dividend by 10%. Rivals Chevron (CVX.N), Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), Shell (SHEL.L) and TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) have also reported sharp drops in quarterly earnings, hurt by a drop in energy prices from highs... Continue Reading →
In 2Q23, average production of oil, NGL and natural gas reached 2.64 MMboed, 1.5% lower compared to 1Q23, mainly due to higher volume of losses from stoppages and maintenance, the natural decline of mature fields and divestments. Those effects were partially offset by the ramp-up of P-71, in Itapu field, and the startup of FPSOs... Continue Reading →
The Búzios field, the largest in the world in ultra-deep waters, reached, in June, the accumulated production of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), after just five years since the asset started operations. This result is due to the high productivity per well in Búzios, the evolution of knowledge accumulated in the pre-salt fields... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) The Big three oilfield services (OFS) companies will likely report higher profits for the second quarter as resurgent demand in international markets and strong offshore drilling helped counter tepid activity in North America. Baker Hughes, Halliburton, and SLB are set to post a combined second-quarter adjusted profit of $2.04 billion, according to Refinitiv data,... Continue Reading →
PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), informs its shareholders and the market in general of the start of production of the ODP5 (“F23P3”) well, in the Frade Field (“Field” or “Frade”), with stabilized initial production of approximately 8,000 barrels of oil per day. Thus, PRIO has exceeded the milestone of 100,000 barrels per day... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Chinese oil refineries, led by heavyweight Sinopec (600028.SS), are set to boost Brazilian crude imports in the third quarter to replace some of the Saudi Arabian supply it cut after the kingdom hiked prices, industry sources said. China, the world's top crude importer, has booked nearly 1 million barrels per day of Brazilian crude... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oil company Tullow said Monday that production from its Jubilee oil field offshore Ghana had surpassed 100,000 barrels of oil per day, following the recent start-up of the Jubilee South East (JSE) Project. "Gross production from the field has surpassed 100,000 bopd, after a second JSE production well was brought onstream. Both of the... Continue Reading →
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