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(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will offer 27 oil blocks and three gas blocks, nearly double as many as previously planned, in a licensing round next week, the hydrocarbons ministry said on Monday. Congo, a leading miner of copper, cobalt, gold and diamonds, has long aimed to boost its oil sector and is believed... Continue Reading →
(OEM) With two-thirds of global resources in their hands, seven National oil companies (NOCs) own the lion’s share of remaining discovered oil and gas resources, says Wood Mackenzie, an energy intelligence group. Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the outlook for the supply, demand, and price of hydrocarbons is constantly shifting, leading to a rewriting of energy trade... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/01/2022, informs that it has completed a Drill Stem Test (DST) on the 1-BRSA-1383A-RJS wildcat well (Alto de Cabo Frio Central Noroeste) in the pre-salt of the southern portion of the Campos Basin. The new discovery, announced on April 1st, is located 230... Continue Reading →
ANP published the Monthly Bulletin of Oil and Natural Gas Production, with consolidated data on national production for the month of May. Approximately 2.879 MMbbl/d (million barrels per day) of oil and 132 MMm3/d (million cubic meters per day) of natural gas were produced, totaling 3.707 MMboe/d (million barrels of oil equivalent per day) Pre-salt... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Two U.S. investment funds on Tuesday said they formed a joint venture with a Venezuelan firm to pursue oil and gas exploration and production projects in the U.S.-sanctioned South American country. Gramercy Funds Management and Atmos Global Energy said their joint venture would work with an arm of Inelectra Group, a Caracas-based firm... Continue Reading →
(Reuters( President Joe Biden's administration on Friday unveiled a five-year proposal for offshore oil and gas development in areas of existing production, and said the final plan may have anywhere from zero to 11 lease sales. The range of options, between two auctions a year and none at all, sought to balance the administration's efforts... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - More than two weeks of protests in Ecuador caused state-run oil company Petroecuador to lose 1.99 million barrels of oil production, the company said on Friday, adding that it expects to reach 90% of pre-crisis output in the next week. Protests erupted in Ecuador in June to demand lower fuel prices and limits... Continue Reading →
(OP) Latin America’s largest economy Brazil is experiencing a massive offshore energy boom which has seen the country overtake Venezuela and Mexico in little over a decade to become the region’s largest oil producer. This is driven by pre-salt petroleum discoveries in offshore Brazil, with the first being made by national oil company Petrobras in the Santos... Continue Reading →
(OE) Shell's and TotalEnergies' Graff and Venus deepwater discoveries off Namibia have put southern Africa under the exploration spotlight. With deepwater offering high productivity reserves, it's a spotlight that's likely to linger for a few years yet, despite continued offshore upstream capital discipline. With talk of TotalEnergies' offshore Namibia Venus discovery potentially containing more than... Continue Reading →
Danish offshore rig owner Maersk Drilling has secured a one-well extension for its drillship Maersk Valiant in Suriname. TotalEnergies E&P Suriname has exercised an option to add the drilling of one additional well in Block 58 offshore Suriname to the work scope of the drillship Maersk Valiant, the drilling contractor reported on Thursday. The contract extension has an estimated... Continue Reading →
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