A highly touted exploration well in Newfoundland’s offshore that had garnered international attention did not produce the results that energy giants ExxonMobil Canada and Qatar Energy had hoped.
As oil majors shift focus to deep offshore exploration in Africa, local producers face rising costs and complex challenges in a rapidly evolving industry landscape.
South American nations are increasingly realigning energy strategies to capitalize on offshore oil and gas reserves, signaling a marked shift from previously stated goals of reducing dependence on fossil fuels to satisfy the net zero agenda of those obsessed with a faux climate emergency.
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arifin Tasrif, has announced that ExxonMobil is planning to conduct a joint study to explore potential oil and gas reserves in Indonesia.
According to Reuters, Equinor and ExxonMobil have transferred their stakes in a deepwater oil and gas exploration block offshore Suriname to Hess Corp, with Equinor exiting the South American country.
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has begun to restart some units at its Joliet, Illinois, refinery after a three-week outage, OilPrice.com reported Thursday.
ExxonMobil, the largest major oil and gas company in the Western world, has shown interest in the Korea National Oil Corporation’s (KNOC) roadshow and participated in verifying the economic feasibility analysis of the “Blue Whale Project.” This project, located in the East Sea, boasts estimated reserves of up to 14 billion barrels, valued at around 2,000 trillion won (around $1.48 trillion). Despite its participation, ExxonMobil has not yet made an investment decision.
ExxonMobil is planning a new drilling campaign in Guyana’s Stabroek block and has filed a project summary with Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency for the Hammerhead development project
Following the results of ongoing drilling campaigns, oil and gas major ExxonMobil could invest as much as $15 billion in Angola’s Namibe basin by 2030. Active in the country for 30 years, the company is developing a series of large-scale oil and gas projects while implementing initiatives to maximize output at producing fields.
US supermajor ExxonMobil is transferring the operatorship of two production sharing contracts offshore Malaysia to Petronas Carigali, the upstream division of national energy behemoth Petronas, and not completely pulling the plug there.