About a month ago, news emerged that Seadrill and Transocean, the offshore drilling heavyweights, were discussing a merger aimed at capitalizing on a rebound in investments in the business. Soon after, Portugal’s Galp launched its second drilling campaign offshore Namibia after a huge discovery, and Suriname is about to become the second Guyana. Offshore is back—and it’s back to stay.
The change compared with a build of 2.1 million barrels for the previous week, and another one, of 4.75 million barrels, estimated by the American Petroleum Institute for the week to November 15. Both last week’s EIA report and this week’s API report saw declines in fuel inventories, however.
The future of the United States natural gas sector hangs in the balance as a cluster of competing variables cloud the crystal ball. The upcoming regime change in the United States is certain to significantly reshape domestic production, consumption, and export trends but myriad global factors make exact projections tricky.
In the four weeks to November 17, Russian crude oil exports by sea dipped to 3.28 million barrels per day (bpd), down by 150,000 bpd compared to the previous four-week average to November 10, according to the data reported by Bloomberg’s Julian Lee.
According to Rystad Energy’s research, these six oil majors have announced a total of 43 biofuel projects that are either already operational or are targeted to start up by 2030. While investments span various biofuel products, including biodiesel and ethanol, the focus is clearly on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which are expected to make up nearly 90% of the projected biofuel production.
The partners will deploy TotalEnergies’ pioneering Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications (AUSEA) gas analysis technology at Oil India sites. The drone-mounted AUSEA is a dual sensor capable of detecting methane and carbon dioxide emissions while at the same time identifying their source.
ADNOC reached a FID on the project in June 2024, concurrently awarding USD 5.5 billion in EPC contracts to a joint venture of Technip Energies with JCG Corporation and NMDC Energy.
The predictions come from Wood Mackenzie, which listed in a recent article a total of five factors affecting the natural gas market in the United States this winter. Control of supply is at the top of the list as natural gas producers respond to persistently low market prices for their commodity. Natural gas prices have been depressed for over a year, and earlier in 2024, producers had enough of that and started delaying well-drilling plans.
The sudden escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war with the United States, UK and France allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory and the subsequent change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine have brought the long-forgotten European geopolitical risk back, lifting ICE Brent slightly to $73 per barrel.
The Yahoo Finance article says that both European and U.S. negotiators aim to reinforce last year’s commitments to boost energy efficiency and renewable energy, viewing them as crucial to maintaining progress in the global climate fight.