Offshore Namibia, the success rate in offshore discoveries has been phenomenal so far.
This week, TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy said they were expanding their efforts to explore for oil and gas in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia.
In Uruguay, Brazil’s neighbor to the south, a subsidiary of Chevron entered in a deal this week to buy 60% and assume operatorship of an offshore exploration block.
As major discovery comes to light
Italy’s oil and gas giant Eni, has made a new significant hydrocarbon discovery in block CI-205 off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa.
The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has reiterated commitment to developing national content within the oil and gas sector.
Africa’s biggest producer is trying to halt a flight of investment capital from its onshore fields by oil majors fleeing assets prone to spills caused by attacks including sabotage and vandalism
Brazilian state-controlled company Petrobras saw earnings down in the final quarter of 2023, as results were affected by the depreciation of Brent crude prices and lower oil products margins.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation CEO Al-Sabah: Global oil demand looks robust.
Al-Sabah: U.S. shale production has helped meet part of the recent growth in world oil consumption.
As part of the voluntary OPEC+ cuts, Kuwait has pledged to voluntarily reduce its crude oil production by 135,000 bpd.
For 2023, the supermajors booked smaller profits, although in absolute terms, the figures were yet again quite impressive.
Several oil majors beat expectations despite reporting smaller overall profits in 2023 compared to 2022.
The combined profits of Big Oil came in at around $107.5 billion last year
Saudi Arabia’s government transferred a further $164 billion stake in Aramco to the Public Investment Fund, a move aimed at bolstering cashflow at the state-backed investor that’s ramping up spending on huge local projects.
In an oil market update sent to Rigzone late Tuesday, Rystad Energy Senior Vice President Jorge Leon outlined that OPEC+’s extended production cuts of 1.7 million barrels per day into the second quarter have resulted in an increase of $5 per barrel to Rystad Energy’s previous price projection.
Oil prices were little changed on Thursday as markets weighed new economic data from China against increasing supply from the Western Hemisphere. Brent crude futures settled flat at $82.96 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures ended 20 cents lower at $78.93.