As oil majors return to offshore exploration, West Africa’s deepwater has become a key drilling target for some of the biggest international companies.
The Supreme Court has ruled a local council should have considered the full climate impact of burning oil from new wells – a landmark decision which could put future UK oil and gas projects in question.
The IEA predicts a future oil supply glut due to electric vehicles and rising non-OPEC+ production.
Past predictions of oil decline have been inaccurate, such as Bloomberg’s forecast of a crash in 2023.
The IEA’s current prediction relies on assumptions that may not hold true.
Traders’ pessimism in the global oil market began to increase after OPEC reiterated it might consider rolling back production cuts in 2024.
Rystad Energy recently predicted that global oil supply growth will be virtually non-existent this year because of the OPEC+ cuts without mentioning spare capacity.
Crude prices have recovered in recent days, but the supply side looks bearish due to OPEC+’s spare capacity and rising production from the US, Guyana, and Brazil.
Major global oil companies are expressing interest in participating in an oil and gas field development project in the East Sea, where the government estimates up to 14 billion barrels of gas and oil reserves are buried, according to Kim Dong-sub, CEO of the Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC), Wednesday.
Oil climbed, building on its biggest weekly advance since early April and extending a short-covering rally, helped by risk-on sentiment in broader markets.
Under supportive policies, investment in domestic offshore energy sectors such as oil and gas, offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage technology could surge by more than 50%, rising from approximately £13 billion last year to over £20 billion by the early 2030s, according to a new report
New Zealand proposed a ban on oil and gas exploration back in 2018.
This week, the coalition government said it would introduce a bill in Parliament in the second half of 2024 to remove the ban on petroleum exploration beyond onshore Taranaki.
The removal of the ban is aimed at dealing with the energy security challenges posed by rapidly declining natural gas reserves.
US oil and gas drilling company Noble has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Diamond Offshore Drilling in a cash and stock deal.
John Browne, the former head of BP, has seemingly backed a Labour Party pledge to end North Sea oil and gas exploration.
The industry heavyweight, who joined the energy giant as an apprentice in the 1960s, said that plans for the North Sea and the “energy transition” would be important issues at the next election.