CNOOC Starts Drilling In Brazilian Waters
May 16th, 2022
Via Week in China, an article on CNOOC’s drilling activity in Brazilian waters: Saudi Aramco is jostling with Apple once again for the title of the world’s most valuable company, helped by oil prices that have soared 60% since last year on higher demand and the spillover effect of the disruption in energy markets caused […]
Read more »Can Azerbaijan Help Europe Kick Its Russian Gas Habit?
May 9th, 2022
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on Azerbaijan’s potential to fill supply gaps caused by Russian sanctions and restrictions: Russia may be using missiles and bombs in its invasion of Ukraine, but it has another weapon, less lethal but nevertheless threatening, pointed at the rest of Europe — energy. Amid international outrage over its unprovoked […]
Read more »Moscow’s Race Against Time To Divert Energy Exports From Europe To Asia
April 21st, 2022
Via BNE Intellinews, a report on Moscow’s efforts to diver energy exports from Europe to Asia: Europe’s unprecedented push to sever all energy ties with Russia has left Moscow scrambling to re-orientate its vast oil, gas and coal exports to Asian markets. But achieving such a monumental feat would likely take years, not to […]
Read more »Massive Investments in Guyana’s Oil and Gas Industry
April 11th, 2022
Via Merco Press, a report on massive investments in Guyana’s oil and gas industry by Exxon-Mobil Exxon Mobil is investing heavily off the coast of Guyana expecting future production of some 1,2 million barrels per day of oil and gas by 2027. According to the company the fourth oil project production off Guyana will receive […]
Read more »Investors Commit $10 billion for Controversial Uganda Oil Project
February 6th, 2022
Via Oil and Gas Daily, a report on a planned large investment in Uganda’s oil sector: Chinese and French oil giants finally sealed a $10-billion deal Tuesday to unlock Uganda’s energy resources and build a vast regional oil pipeline, a mega-project that has incensed environmental groups. The so-called Final Investment Decision should pave the way […]
Read more »Venezuela: Decline Of An Oil Giant
January 14th, 2022
Via Oil & Gas Daily, an article on the deterioration of Venezuela’s petroleum sector: Leaks, rusted pipes, pieces of broken equipment scattered about and staircases leading nowhere: Lake Maracaibo’s oil field is a metaphor for Venezuela’s once-flourishing petroleum industry that is now on its knees. More than a century ago, the Maracaibo basin in northwestern […]
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