The world’s biggest oil companies are expected to press ahead with plans to accelerate production growth when they report earnings this week, despite weak crude prices and higher supplies from OPEC and its allies.
The European Union needs to step up efforts to provide supply of critical minerals in the face of Chinese export curbs, the European Initiative for Energy Security has said, calling for more funding to be secured for these efforts.
Indian refiners have suspended new orders for Russian crude, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources as saying the industry awaited clarity from the government about navigating the new U.S. sanction context.
Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery will expand capacity to 1.4 million bpd by 2028 with the addition of a new 750,000 bpd processing line, Argus reported on Monday. The second line will be built in Lagos alongside Dangote’s existing 650,000-bpd unit, which began commercial operations in 2024. A potential capacity expansion was part of the facility’s original […]
Lukoil is the most internationally diverse of Russia’s oil giants, with upstream businesses in former Soviet countries such as Kazakstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, as well as in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and West African nations of Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Congo.
Israel’s Natural Gas Authority allocated 41.8 percent of the capacity of the planned Nitzana natural gas pipeline to Egypt to the Chevron Corp-led Leviathan consortium, Leviathan co-venturer NewMed Energy LP said Sunday.
North Rafah spans nearly 3,000 square kilometers (1,158.31 square miles) in the Mediterranean Sea off the northeastern coast of Egypt, QatarEnergy noted. The block has a water depth of up to 450 meters (1,476.38 feet), it said.
SLB and Ormat Technologies have entered a strategic agreement to fast-track the development and commercialization of integrated geothermal assets, including enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). The partnership aims to scale next-generation geothermal solutions capable of delivering clean, reliable baseload energy in regions beyond traditional hydrothermal resources.
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has restated its commitment to achieving full operatorship as it continues to strengthen technical competence, institutional resilience, and financial sustainability.
In reality, though, national output has been declining. Data from the Petroleum Commission show crude production fell from 71.4 million barrels in 2019 to 48.2 million barrels in 2024, with a further 26% year-on-year drop recorded in the first half of 2025.