BP is joining forces with the US government, universities, and the world’s largest technology companies by providing access to its supercomputer to help researchers halt the spread of COVID-19. The company will donate its supercomputing capability to the public-private consortium formed in March 2020 by the White House’s Office of …
Read More »Top Asian LNG Buyer Seeks to Delay Shipments Deep into 2020
One of the world’s top buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is trying to defer some shipments scheduled through this year as the coronavirus outbreak cripples demand and as it grapples with brimming inventories. The move signals that efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 may impact energy consumption far …
Read More »Brazil’s Offshore Oil Boom under Influence of $20 Oil
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 …
Read More »Too Late for OPEC+ Cuts to Save the Physical Oil Market
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 — …
Read More »IEA Sees Record 2020 Oil Demand Fall due to Coronavirus
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 …
Read More »Production of Iran’s South Yaran Oil Field Increases
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 …
Read More »Shell Increase Carbon Reduction Plans
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 …
Read More »OPEC Expects Historical Drop in Oil Demand in 2020
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 …
Read More »Effective Global Oil Cuts Above 19 MMbbl/d
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+, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Says Oil Cuts could Reach 19.5m Barrels
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 …
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