Colombian energy producer Ecopetrol ECO.CN aims to boost its oil and gas output by just over 40% to around 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2030 and plans to start a pilot carbon capture storage (CCS) project, a senior company executive said. The projects are part of Ecopetrol's plan to ramp... Continue Reading →
Trident Energy Wraps Subsea Work in Brazil to Boost Pampo Field Output
(OE) Oil and gas company Trident Energy said Thursday it had completed its first Brazilian subsea campaign to connect the MA-34 production well to the P-08 semi-sub platform, as part of its plans to enhance production on its Pampo field. "Trident Energy set to relocate two existing flowlines from our old MA-1 X-tree (one production... Continue Reading →
Brazil: New field developments to receive US$36 billion in investments by 2025
(PN) With an enviable portfolio of new offshore field developments, Brazil is expected to attract around 10% of the resources earmarked for new oil and gas projects worldwide by 2025. In addition, the country will receive a total of US$ 36.7 billion in investments in this period, which will be applied in the development of... Continue Reading →
Karoon and Enauta abandon Brazilian field-related sale talks
Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has revealed that its exclusivity deal with Australia’s Karoon Energy for the sale of a partial stake in a field located offshore Brazil has been terminated, thus, the company will be keeping its entire stake in this field for the time being. Back in March 2022, Enauta confirmed it... Continue Reading →
U.S. drillers add oil and gas rigs for ninth week in a row -Baker Hughes
(Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a ninth week in a row, data showed on Friday, as mostly small producers respond to high prices and prodding by the government to ramp up output. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose 14... Continue Reading →
Enauta halts output from Brazilian well in preparation for ‘minor repairs’
Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta has stopped production from one of the wells at the Atlanta field, located offshore Brazil, to carry out – what it describes as – minor repairs in the production line. Enauta revealed on Tuesday that production was temporarily interrupted at dawn at the well 7-ATL-2HP-RJS, which had been producing... Continue Reading →
Shell Joins Exxon With $1 Billion Brazil Exploration Setback
(Bloomberg) -- Expensive offshore exploration setbacks for international oil majors including Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. are throwing cold water on their plans to turn Brazil into a profit center. In the past three years, Shell has drilled three exploration wells without finding any commercial volumes, said Marcelo de Assis, the head of Latin... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Launches Global Drone-based Methane Inspection Campaign on All Upstream Assets
French oil major TotalEnergies said Monday it had launched a worldwide drone-based emissions detection and quantification campaign across all its upstream oil & gas operated sites, to identify, quantify, and reduce methane emissions linked to its operations. The campaign uses AUSEA technology developed by TotalEnergies, the French National Research Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of... Continue Reading →
Japan’s Inpex Boosts Annual Profit Outlook on Soaring Oil Prices. Shares Abadi Plans
Japan's biggest oil and gas explorer Inpex Corp raised its net profit forecast for 2022 by 20% to a record 300 billion yen ($2.3 billion) thanks to higher-than-expected oil prices and a lower yen against the U.S. dollar. Its annual net profit prediction was raised from its February estimate of 250 billion yen as the... Continue Reading →
Petrobras begins the binding phase of E&P assets in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/11/2022, informs that today it started the binding phase regarding the sale of its total participation in the Tartaruga field, located in shallow waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, state of Sergipe. Potential buyers qualified for this phase will receive a process letter with... Continue Reading →