French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies (formerly Total) has been crowned the upstream industry’s most-admired explorer for the second year in a row. The accolade is awarded as part of Wood Mackenzie’s annual Exploration Survey. The award ceremony was held in conjunction with the global natural resources research and consultancy business’ Next Generation Energy and... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Set to Start Sapinhoá Field OBN Survey
Brazilian oil firm Petrobras is set to kick off the first of the two seismic acquisitions of the Sapinhoá field monitoring project, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. "Seismic acquisition is an important tool for managing the deposit (reservoirs) and optimizing production systems, seeking to maximize the value of the assets by... Continue Reading →
Exxon’s board shakeup could force review of billions of dollars in spending
The recent overhaul of Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM.N) board of directors could shift billions of dollars in spending and strategy over several years, but any changes likely will take time, analysts and investors say. A quarter of directors last month lost their seats to outsiders read more , and the March appointment of activist Jeff Ubben puts a third... Continue Reading →
Petrobras has Cade’s approval to sell the RLAM refinery to the Mubadala group
Petrobras has the approval of the Brazilian antitrust agency for the sale of its Landulpho Alves (RLAM) refinery, in Bahia, to Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign fund of the Abu Dhabi government. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved the transaction without restrictions, according to a publication in the Federal Official Gazette this Wednesday... Continue Reading →
Government makes key changes to enable sale of the Sépia and Atapu blocks, by Henrique Jäger and João Montenegro
(TNPetroleo) After the unsuccessful attempt to auction off the production surpluses from the Sépia and Atapu pre-salt blocks, on November 6, 2019, the government decided to carry out a broad change in the parameters that guide the supply of these areas. Either directly, through the significant reduction of government participation in the revenue that will... Continue Reading →
Oil Prices Soar on Signs of Strong Demand in Western Economies
(OE) Oil prices continued to rally on Wednesday on signs of strong fuel demand in western economies, while the prospect of Iranian supplies returning faded as the U.S. secretary of state said sanctions against Tehran were unlikely to be lifted. Brent crude futures were up 44 cents, or 0.6%, at $72.66 a barrel at 1338... Continue Reading →
Tullow Oil seals Dussafu Marin stake sale to Panoro
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has completed the sale of its Dussafu Marin permit asset in Gabon to Oslo-listed Panoro Energy. Tullow Oil said on Wednesday that it had already received a payment of $39 million for the Dussafu asset earlier in the day as well as a $5 million contingent consideration relating to... Continue Reading →
Air Products, Baker Hughes to collaborate on global H2 projects
(H2Tech) Air Products and Baker Hughes are collaborating to develop next-generation hydrogen compression to lower the cost of production and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel. As part of the collaboration, Baker Hughes will provide Air Products with advanced hydrogen compression and gas turbine technology for global projects, including NovaLT16 turbines for Air Products’... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil cheers fresh discovery off Guyana
Oil major ExxonMobil has made a new discovery at Longtail-3 well located in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, using the Stena DrillMAX drillship. Drilling at Longtail-3 encountered 230 feet (70 meters) of net pay, including newly identified, high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs below the original Longtail-1 discovery intervals, according to ExxonMobil’s statement on Wednesday. The well is... Continue Reading →
PGS wraps up 3D data revitalization at Bauna field
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has revitalized 3D data over the Bauna field in southwest Santos Basin and its surrounding area offshore Brazil. This preprocessed dataset is now available for evaluation of blocks for Brazil’s upcoming Permanent Offer Round. The data rejuvenation of legacy survey BM-S-40 started from field tapes and applied the latest workflow for data... Continue Reading →