Brazil has suspended its 17th licensing round which would have seen the state oil regulator ANP offering 128 offshore exploration blocks throughout the country, fearing that the plummeting oil prices and unprecedented declines in global crude demand entailing double-digit-percent CAPEX cuts will set the stage for another fiasco. With two …

The physical oil market, where millions of barrels of real cargoes are traded each day, needed OPEC+’s historic cuts to global crude production months ago. On Sunday, producer nations pledged to limit output by an unprecedented 10% of global supply. While there’s skepticism the cuts will prove deep enough — …

Global oil demand will fall by a record amount this year as lockdown measures imposed to curb the coronavirus outbreak bring the economy to a virtual halt, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday, April 15. For 2020 overall, demand will fall by 9.3 million barrels per day (mbd), with …

The oil production at the South Yaran joint oil field in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran (this field is called Majnoon field in Iraq) was increased as a result of drilling and commissioning of six new wells, said Head of South Yaran Oil Field Development Project Homayoun Kazemeini, Trend reports …

Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday announced plans to deepen its greenhouse gas emissions reduction “ambitions”, including offsetting emissions from oil and gas production by 2050. Shell also expanded its broader aim to cut the total carbon emission footprint from energy products its sells by around 65% by 2050, and by …

The global oil demand is expected to plummet by 6.8 mln barrels per day (mb/d) in 2020, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says in its April report. “For 2020, the world oil demand growth forecast is revised lower by 6.9 mb/d, to a historical drop of around …

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said on April 13 that effective global oil supply cuts would amount to around 19.5 MMbbl/d, taking into account the reduction pact agreed by OPEC+, pledges by other G-20 nations and oil purchases into reserves. OPEC and allies led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+, …

Oil output cuts by OPEC and its allies, together with pledges from other G20 nations and purchases by strategic reserves, could remove 19.5 million barrels per day from the market, the Saudi energy minister said. US President Donald Trump said Monday that the actual output cuts may be deeper than …

ExxonMobil is conducting field trials of eight emerging methane detection technologies, including satellite and aerial surveillance monitoring, at nearly 1000 sites in Texas and New Mexico, US, to further reduce methane emissions. The field tests are evaluating effectiveness and scalability of a range of next-generation detection technologies that in addition …

Russia’s Gazprom is working to boost the capacity of its landmark gas pipeline to China — the Power of Siberia — as it looks to ramp up flows via the line. The pipeline, whose design capacity is 38 Bcm/year, started commercial flows at a rate of some 10 million cu …