The Angola Oil&Gas (AOG) Conference and Exhibition opened in Luanda on Wednesday with Angola looking toward its next phase of oil and gas development, underpinned by a Hydrocarbon Strategy through 2050, more than $70 billion in projected upstream investment, Sonangol’s expanding operational footprint and new downstream infrastructure. Financing that next phase could receive a major […]
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi Oil Minister Basim Khudair and representatives from British Petroleum (BP) and Texas-based ConocoPhillips discussed on Monday the development of Iraq’s oil and gas industry. The meeting held in Baghdad included BP’s Iraq director Zaid al-Yasiri, Nader Zaki, Ariel Flores, and ConocoPhillips representative William Arnold, as well as senior Iraqi officials in […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican lawmakers have said they will press to expand oil and gas leases on federal lands. Johnson would also like to allow more drilling in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, after the Biden administration enacted regulations to thwart drilling in more than half the area.