India is set to launch its tenth bidding round for oil and gas blocks in August or September, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has said. The latest round will include 25 blocks across 13 sedimentary basins, which are essential for exploration and production activities.
ConocoPhillips has maintained that its $22.5 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil Corp. can be completed by the fourth quarter (Q4) despite facing an extended anti-trust review by the United States competition regulator.
Italian offshore energy services firm Saipem has secured work two offshore projects in Saudi Arabia, under the existing long-term contract with Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco.
The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has confirmed its stance on oil and gas licensing in response to questioning from Rigzone.
Indented in the Guyana’s 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Exxon, is a clear and unequivocal statement (I will break it down in layman language) – renegotiation of the Oil Contract is quite possible as long as there is mutual agreement (Exxon & the Guyana Government) on both sides. It did not specify any limitations to renegotiation because unanticipated fluctuations/market conditions can cut both ways. For simplicity sake, I offer this as an example.
Egypt is planning to drill 110 exploratory wells for gas and oil, with a total investment of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars during the current fiscal year 2024/2025, Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources quoted Minister Karim Badawi as saying in a statement on Sunday.
Kuwait has discovered a significant amount of oil and gas in the Al-Noukhitha offshore field, estimated at around 3.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
The discovery includes 2.1 billion barrels of light oil and 5.1 trillion standard cubic feet of natural gas.
Kuwait plans to develop plans for extracting resources from the field as soon as possible, aiming to increase its oil production capacity to 4 million barrels per day by 2035.
As the world calls for a reduction in the use of fossil fuels, new African players are emerging on the global stage and beginning to produce oil. With Niger creating its own oil and gas school in 2011, the Franco-British oil company Perenco recently made an offshore oil discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Meanwhile, Ivory Coast plans to triple its oil production by 2027.
Dangote Refinery is upbeat its 650,000 barrel-per-day capacity crude processing plant will commence sales to fuel marketers in August.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) raised its Brent oil price forecasts for 2024 and 2025 in its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released this week