Governments agree oil and gas firms must deploy permanent CO2 storage facilities at an unprecedented scale, but the industry argues it is pointless without also building up carbon capture and transport infrastructure, while NGOs fear the plans distract from the need to cut emissions at source.
(WO) –Jadestone Energy plc, an independent upstream oil and gas production company focused on the Asia-Pacific region, announced that the final well in the company’s 2023 East Belumut drilling campaign offshore Peninsular Malaysia has now been completed. The overall program has delivered results significantly ahead of expectations.
The CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has acknowledged the need for a balanced discourse on the challenges and opportunities inherent in the transition towards a net-zero economy, particularly in Ghana and other emerging oil countries.
ExxonMobil expects to see a material increase in its earnings potential until 2027 with upstream earnings set to more than double compared to 2019 supported by strong oil and gas production growth in the Permian basin and Guyana.
President Ruto announces that Kenya has slowed down any investment in oil exploration.
Reuters: OPEC’s crude oil production dropped in November for the first monthly decline since July.
OPEC produced 27.81 million barrels per day of crude last month, a drop of 90,000 bpd compared to October.
In November, Iran, which is exempted from the OPEC+ cuts, further increased its output to a five-year high, according to the Reuters survey.
U.S. manufacturing activity has declined for the 13th consecutive month.
Surprisingly, diesel demand has not followed a similar trajectory as the manufacturing sector.
With experts predicting that the manufacturing downturn may be drawing to a close, it will be interesting to see how the energy markets respond with diesel stocks already severely depleted.
Macroeconomic factors continue to weigh on oil prices this week, despite the insistence of OPEC+ members that the group’s production cuts will tighten the oil market.
Novak: “The timely actions of OPEC+, thanks to which about 2.2 million barrels per day will be held off the market in the first quarter of next year, will allow the period of low demand to pass painlessly in the first quarter of 2024,”.
With funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Argonne National Laboratory will explore using a method known for analyzing nuclear systems to enhance safety in offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.