Production
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April 21, 2023
“In the past three years of EPF production, we have achieved a 10-million-barrel milestone while maintaining over 97% uptime,” said Iyen Idienumah, Testing and Subsea country manager for Nigeria. “This is a testament to the dedication and tireless efforts of the TSS EPF team.”
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April 17, 2023
Focusing on steady production may represent local producers applying a longer-term strategy to their presence in Gabon, but the local energy sector also needs new discoveries, and the country’s unexplored shallow and deep-water basins deserve more attention than they are receiving.
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April 17, 2023
The results of JKT-01Z followed by WR-B01Za provide back-to-back drilling success, further validating the company's reservoir understanding and confirming its ability to accurately place horizontal wells in areas of good productivity.
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April 13, 2023
World markets may be under supplied by about 2 MMbpd in the fourth quarter as a result of cutbacks announced by Saudi Arabia and its partners, according to figures in a report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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April 07, 2023
A long-standing oil giant of sub-Saharan Africa, Gabon is embracing its potential as a natural gas producer and emerging with revitalized plans for sustainable, energy-led growth.
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April 04, 2023
Administration officials in Washington have sought to strike a balance between denouncing the move and not further souring relations with Saudi Arabia.
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April 03, 2023
Still, while the White House said they were given advanced warning of the latest production cut, Kirby said the U.S. did not know what prompted the decision.
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April 03, 2023
Several OPEC+ members shocked the market over the weekend, announcing further voluntary supply cuts. These cuts were announced ahead of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee meeting scheduled for April 3, where the expectation was that the committee would recommend keeping output policy unchanged.
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April 03, 2023
OPEC+ announced a surprise oil production cut of more than 1MMbpd, abandoning previous assurances that it would hold supply steady and posing a new risk for the global economy.
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March 31, 2023
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. will become the latest oil producer in Iraqi Kurdistan to cut production, as a legal spat between the region’s government and Baghdad that’s pushed up crude prices drags on.
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March 28, 2023
Group leader Saudi Arabia has said publicly that the 23-nation alliance should keep supplies steady for the whole of 2023 as it navigates a fragile recovery in global oil demand. Delegates from the group say privately that an online meeting of key ministers on Monday is set to maintain this position.
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March 24, 2023
MOL Group is transporting crude oil produced at its co-owned oilfield, the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli in Azerbaijan, to Slovnaft Refinery in Bratislava. This is a major step in the company’s efforts to increase its crude sourcing flexibility.
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March 23, 2023
DNO reported that cumulative oil production from its Peshkabir field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has broken through the 100 MMbbl milestone less than six years after startup. The field was initially estimated to contain proven and probable reserves of 75 MMbbl commingled with associated gas.
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March 20, 2023
The RockJet family of charges was developed at the Advanced Perforating Flow Laboratory at the Halliburton Jet Research Center using real rock under downhole conditions to optimize downhole performance. Halliburton’s RockJet charges are the first certified using the American Petroleum Institute’s new perforation witnessed test protocol.
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March 17, 2023
The Canadian company is looking to step up output in Colombia, which accounts for most of its production, by improving techniques such as adding so-called waterflood facilities in the main fields.
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March 16, 2023
The combination of tightening credit conditions and lower energy prices has the potential to constrain U.S. driller spending, or lead OPEC+ to review their output targets, “altering the forward outlook for oil and gas supplies in a non-trivial way,” Pimco's Greg Sharenow said.
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March 16, 2023
Global markets were roiled on Wednesday as turmoil at Credit Suisse Group AG triggered panic among banking investors. The crisis spread to commodities, with oil falling to a 15-month low.
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March 15, 2023
Karoon announced that the PAT-2 well, one of two new production wells drilled into the Patola field in the BM-S-40 production license in Brazil, came onstream on March 15 at a rate of 12,000 – 14,000 bopd.
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March 14, 2023
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is pumping about 28.92 MMbpd, or about 300,000 a day more than it expects will be needed in the second quarter, it said in a monthly report. World oil consumption typically eases around this time, a softer patch between the end of winter and start of the summer driving season.
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March 13, 2023
The Washington-based lender in 2019 stopped financing oil and gas extraction projects, aside from “exceptional circumstances” where projects in the poorest countries help connect more people to energy.
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March 09, 2023
“The U.S. has become, in this year, an indispensable energy partner to our allies and a global energy powerhouse,” Granholm said, drawing applause from a packed ballroom at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston on Wednesday.
