French energy major TotalEnergies and U.S. LNG infrastructure company Sempra have expanded their North American strategic alliance with the signing of two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs). TotalEnergies said that one of the agreements was for the Vista Pacífico LNG export project in Mexico while the other was for the co-development …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Stop Funding Arctic LNG-2 Project and Buying Russian Oil
While it does not operate any oil and gas fields or LNG plants in Russia, the French oil and gas company has minority stakes in several non-state-owned Russian oil and gas companies. These include Novatek (19.4%), Yamal LNG (20%), Arctic LNG 2 (10%) and TerNefteGaz (49%). TotalEnergies is also a …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Halt Russian Oil Purchases by the End of 2022
TotalEnergies has announced it will stop purchasing oil and petroleum products from Russia as soon as possible and by the end of 2022 at the latest. In this way, TotalEnergies wanted to address “serious and unfounded” accusations of “complicity in war crimes” for continuing to work in Russia. The energy …
Read More »TotalEnergies Makes Large Oil Discovery off Namibia
Operator TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil and associated gas off the coast of Namibia, the company said on Thursday, 24 February. Two sources earlier told Reuters about the large discovery in the Venus-X1 well, the second recent offshore discovery for the southern African country that has …
Read More »Iraq’s $27-Billion TotalEnergies Deal Stuck over Contract Wrangling
Iraq has struggled to attract major fresh investments into its energy industry since signing a flurry of post US-invasion deals over a decade ago A $27-billion deal between France’s TotalEnergies and Iraq, that Baghdad hoped would reverse the exit of oil majors from the country, has stalled amid disputes over …
Read More »TotalEnergies Withdraws from USA Gulf of Mexico Project
Through its affiliate TotalEnergies E&P USA Inc., TotalEnergies has announced its decision not to sanction, and to withdraw from, the North Platte deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The decision not to continue with the project was taken “as the company has better opportunities of allocation of its …
Read More »The Year Europe’s Big Oil Companies Start to become Small Oil
Europe’s Big Oil companies are planning to spend their windfall from high energy prices on becoming Small Oil. Surging oil and gas prices in 2021 delivered billions of dollars in profits to top oil companies, in stark contrast to the previous year when energy prices collapsed as the coronavirus pandemic …
Read More »Big Oil’s Spending Plans for 2022
The global upstream sector is set for a rebound next year, when overall investment in exploration and production is expected to exceed $400 billion for the first time in three years. Yet, despite record high cash flows and oil at over $70 a barrel, reinvestment rates will stay at near …
Read More »Total, Shell Emerge as Top Bidders in Brazil’s $2 Billion Offshore Auction
While TotalEnergies, Qatar Energy and Petronas won the rights to develop the coveted Sepia field, Brazil’s state-run Petrobras, formally Petroleo Brasileiro SA, later entered the consortium by exercising preference rights. Petrobras, Total and Shell secured the nearby Atapu field. The auction was widely seen as a test of Brazil’s investment …
Read More »UAE’s Masdar, Engie to Invest $5 bil in Renewables, Hydrogen
The UAE’s clean energy firm Masdar and France’s Engie plan to invest $5 billion to develop 2 GW of renewable and hydrogen projects by 2030 as OPEC’s third biggest producer seeks to implement its net zero emissions pledge by 2050. The agreement between Masdar and Engie was signed during French …
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