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Chevron Wants to Weigh In on the Launch of Venture Global’s New LNG Plant

The argument worked in Shell’s arbitration case against Venture Global, where the court sided with the latter. It did not work with another arbitration case, brought against the U.S. LNG producer by BP, which is asking for over $1 billion in compensation. The total sought in damages from Venture Global by its long-term clients is over $4 billion. The company has warned that any unfavorable court ruling would lead to contract cancellations and faster repayment of loans taken out to build its LNG facilities, from the long-term buyers of the commodity.

North America Adds 1 Rig Week on Week

Of the total U.S. rig count of 547, 529 rigs are categorized as land rigs, 15 are categorized as offshore rigs, and three are categorized as inland water rigs. The total U.S. rig count is made up of 418 oil rigs, 120 gas rigs, and nine miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 480 horizontal rigs, 55 directional rigs, and 12 vertical rigs.

Driving value with Omani design and manufacturing

Murtaza Jariwala, CEO and managing director of Vanguard Engineering & Oilfield Services, talks to The Energy Year about the new opportunities that tariff changes have created for the company and local manufacturing in Oman. Vanguard is an Omani provider of engineering and oilfield services to the oil and gas, petrochemical and industrial sectors.

Growing the Arab world’s role in conventional and new energies

H.E. Jamal Essa Al Loughani, Secretary-General of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), talks to The Energy Year about energy security, diversification of petrochemicals output and trade flows and the organisation’s growing emphasis on sustainable technologies. OAPEC is the Kuwait-based intergovernmental organisation that co-ordinates energy policy among Arab oil-producing countries.