TotalEnergies expects its fourth-quarter results to have benefited from higher LNG production and prices and stronger gas trading, the French energy group said on Thursday, diverging from other supermajors that have flagged weaker oil and gas trading results for the final quarter of 2024. TotalEnergies expects its Integrated LNG results …
Read More »Saudi Oil Giant Aramco to Invest in Lithium Production
The world’s top crude oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, is set to announce on Wednesday a push to invest in lithium production and developments to capture part of the supply chain and diversify from oil, sources close to the largest oil firm globally told the Financial Times. The move to boost …
Read More »TotalEnergies Begins Work on Delayed $27B Energy Project in Iraq
French oil and gas company TotalEnergies has begun building a gas processing facility in Iraq, the first stage of a massive multi-energy project. ArtawiGas25 will process 50 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Ratawi field, enough to supply local plants to power 200,000 households in the Basra …
Read More »OMV Set to Supply Romanian Gas to Germany from 2027
The Romanian business of Austria’s energy giant OMV has reached an agreement with German firm Uniper to supply natural gas to Germany from a Black Sea project from 2027, sources with knowledge of the deal have told Reuters. Austria and Europe as a whole are looking to secure alternative gas …
Read More »ADNOC’s Aggressive Push for Global Energy Assets
Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC continues to expand its global footprint in both upstream and downstream sectors. ADNOC Logistics and Services (L&S) announced the completion of a $1.08 billion acquisition of an 80% stake in UK-based product tanker operator Navig8. This acquisition gives ADNOC L&S control of a modern …
Read More »BP to Help India Boost Production at Its Largest Oilfield
India’s largest exploration and production firm, state-held Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has hired supermajor BP to be the technical services provider of its efforts to boost production at India’s biggest oilfield, ONGC said on Wednesday. India has been looking to increase its domestic oil and gas output …
Read More »Eni Launches Europe’s most Powerful Supercomputer
Italian oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A has launched its next-generation supercomputer that will help it to ramp up oil and gas discovery technology and support its decarbonization strategies. Based at Eni’s Green Data Center in the small town of Ferrera Erbognone, the €100m High-Performance Computing 6 (HPC6) machine is …
Read More »Eni Raises Oil and Gas Production Offshore Cote d’Ivoire
Italian energy major Eni has started production from the second phase of its oil and gas development Baleine offshore Cote d’Ivoire, boosting output from the field in West Africa. This weekend, Eni announced the successful start-up of Phase 2 at the Baleine field, which will raise production to 60,000 barrels …
Read More »Shell Closes Oil Unit at Singapore Refinery to Investigate Leak
Shell has shut down one of its oil processing units at its refinery complex in Singapore to investigate a suspected leak in the system, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Friday. The Shell Energy and Chemicals Park at Pulau Bukom, Singapore, is the supermajor’s only energy …
Read More »Russia’s Gazprom Makes First LNG Delivery to Italy amid Shifting European Energy Landscape
In a significant development for European energy markets, Russian energy giant Gazprom has completed its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) delivery to Italy from its Baltic Sea-based LNG Portovaya facility. The shipment, carried by vessel Cool Rover, arrived at Italy’s FSRU Toscana terminal in Livorno, Reuters reported citing LSEG data. …
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