China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has revealed a record cumulative production of 9 billion m3 of natural gas and more than 900 000 m3 of crude oil from the Deep Sea #1 field. Production from the field is set to rise further as CNOOC, China’s third-largest national oil company, …
Read More »Rystad Energy: New Natural Gas Production is Needed to Meet Demand
Global gas demand is projected to rise in the next decade, thus influencing a 12.5% surge in production between 2023 and 2030. However, Rystad Energy forecasts that even in scenarios of 1.9 – 2.5°C warming, with rapid growth in renewable energy sources, the current set of existing gas fields will …
Read More »Equinor to Cut Emissions with Electric Power in North Sea
Equinor will replace two gas turbines with heat recovery to produce electric power. This will reduce annual CO2 emissions by 95 000 t. Statfjord C will change its power solution to cut emissions. A new steam turbine will produce electricity based on surplus heat from two gas compressors. This will …
Read More »Wood Mackenzie: US$500 Billion Investment in Global Oil and Gas Enough to Meet Peak Demand in 2030s
Despite concerns about underinvestment in upstream, peak oil and gas demand can be met in the 2030s without a substantial increase to current annual investment levels of US$500 billion, according to a new Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie. Current upstream spending is a little more than half of the US$914 …
Read More »Eni Makes Oil Discovery Offshore Ghana
Eni has announced an oil discovery on the Eban exploration prospect in CTP Block 4, offshore Ghana. The Eban – 1X well is the second well drilled in CTP Block 4, following the Akoma discovery. Preliminary estimates place the potential of the Eban–Akoma complex between 500 and 700 million boe …
Read More »BP Relaunches Sale of Stakes in North Sea Oilfields
As reported by Reuters, BP has relaunched the sale of stakes in a number of North Sea oilfields it agreed to sell to Premier Oil before Premier was taken over last year, industry sources said on Thursday. BP originally agreed to sell its interest in the fields in the Andrew …
Read More »Norway not Planning Further Production Cuts
As reported by Reuters, Norway is not planning to deepen its oil output cuts after a decision by the OPEC+ group to prolong its own production cut, the Nordic country’s energy minister said on Thursday. Norway, which is not part of the OPEC+ group, has said it would cut its …
Read More »ExxonMobil Field Testing Methane Detection Technologies
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 …
Read More »Rystad Energy Revises Global Oil Demand Growth Outlook due to Coronavirus
Chinese oil demand accounted for 13% of the global total in 2019.
Read More »UAE Announces Major Gas Find
The UAE wants to achieve gas self-sufficiency and possibly become a net gas exporter.
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