Companies

Way back in January (it’s been a long year) Hallburton was already souring on shale. Way before the novel coronavirus put the final nail in the coffin of the West Texas shale revolution, the multinational corporation and one of the largest oil field service companies in the world had very …

In the first big deal since oil prices crashed four months ago, Chevron agreed to buy Noble Energy for roughly $US5 billion ($7 billion) in what many experts consider the beginning of a sweeping consolidation in the US oil industry. The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp decline in oil demand, …

China’s CNOOC Limited has started production from the Luda 21-2/16-3 regional development in the Bohai Sea. The Luda 21-2/16-3 regional development project is located in Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea, about 39 kilometres north of Luda 10-1 oilfield and 90 kilometres northwest of the Suizhong 36-1 onshore terminal. The average …

Halliburton is one of the world’s largest oil field service companies with operations in more than 70 countries. It helps energy companies to maximize value throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing …

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas merchant, is making a bet on the trade’s digital future by taking a minority investment in the online platform developer GLX Digital. GLX is among a handful of companies using web-based trading to modernize the world of physical commodities and …

French oil giant Total SA has sent a drilling rig to South Africa in the hopes of duplicating its massive find there last February, Total’s partner in the project Africa Energy Corp said in a press release on Thursday. According to Africa Energy Corp, the Odfjell Deepsea Stavanger sem-submersible rig …

Exxon Mobil incurred an unprecedented second straight quarterly loss as almost every facet of the oil giant’s business slumped amid Covid-19 lockdowns that stunted economic activity. The explorer’s oil and natural gas unit took a hit of as much as $3.1 billion as prices for those commodities slumped, according to …

Digitally connected service delivers real-time operational data and insights for improved performance Schlumberger introduced, on June 29, Performance Live digitally connected service that optimizes remote wellsite operations control while improving safety, efficiency and footprint. The service includes technology and domain expertise within a digital ecosystem, leveraging cloud-based applications and automated …

Russian oil and gas major Gazprom announced it has begun construction on an offshore ice-resistant platform for its Arctic shelf gas field development, Kallanish Energy reports. The offshore production platform will be deployed to the Kamennomysskoye Sea gas field, located in the Ob bay of the Kara Sea. The field …

Russia’s Gazprom is considering, with Chinese partners, increasing the capacity of its Power of Siberia gas pipeline to 44 Bcm/year from the current design capacity of 38 Bcm/year, CEO Alexei Miller said June 26. In an entry to his online column following Gazprom’s annual general meeting, Miller also said there …