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Equinor Dumps Great Australian Bight Oil Drilling

Feb 24, 2020

Norwegian company Equinor has become the third major fossil fuel producer to abandon plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, after years of work. Previously, BP and Chevron canceled their drilling plans in the area, in 2016, and 2017 respectively…

Indonesia's Oil & Gas Output Set for Drop

Feb 24, 2020

Indonesia's oil and gas output is expected to contract for a fourth consecutive year in 2020, as aging fields and delays to new projects keep production levels below government targets, analysts said.The output decline comes as Jakarta proposes…

Oil Retreats in Face of Renewed Coronavirus Uncertainty

Feb 21, 2020

Oil prices fell on Friday as weak Asian data and a rise in new coronavirus cases fuelled uncertainty about the economic outlook while leading crude producers appeared to be in no rush to curb output.Brent crude was down $1.56, or 2.6%, at $57…

Petrobras Expects Dip in Oil Exports on Offshore Maintenance Works

Feb 21, 2020

Oil exports by Brazilian state-run Petrobras should fall slightly in the first quarter, thanks to scheduled maintenance stoppages at offshore platforms, executives said on Thursday.On a conference call to discuss the firm's fourth-quarter results…

Tanjung Offshore to Deliver Offshore Platform for Petronas

Feb 21, 2020

Malaysian oil company Petronas Carigali has contracted Tanjung Offshore Services for the delivery of a mobile offshore production unit.Tanjung Offshore Services has won a contract with a consortium Partner VME Process Systems Malaysia. The contract is for the provision of leasing…

Shell Working on FID for Mars Pipeline System Expansion

Feb 21, 2020

Shell Midstream Partners LP expects to take final investment decisions on expanding its Mars crude oil pipeline system in the Gulf of Mexico in the first half of the year, Chief Executive Kevin Nichols said on Thursday.Shell has seen significant interest from oil producers as the 600…

Aker Energy, Yinson Sign Pecan FPSO LoI

Feb 21, 2020

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker Energy has signed a letter of intent with Malaysian FPSO provider for the delivery of an FPSO for Aker Energy's Pecan oil field offshore Ghana.Subject to a firm contract signing, Yinson will get the deal for…

Norway: Oil industry 2020 Spending Set to Rise

Feb 20, 2020

Norwegian oil and gas investments, the key driver of the country's economy, will rise more than previously expected this year before declining in 2021, an industry survey by the national statistics agency (SSB) showed on Thursday.The survey is closely watched by Norway's central bank…

Norway's Daily Oil Production to Spike 6.7% by 2020 End

Feb 19, 2020

Norway's daily oil production is expected to be 6.7% higher at the end of this year than at the end of 2019, as a major oilfield ramps up output, forecasts published by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) showed on Wednesday.The country's preliminary oil output in January stood at 1…

Brazil Breaks Oil Output Record in January

Feb 19, 2020

Oil companies produced 3.17 million barrels per day (bpd) on average in Brazil in January, a volume 20.4% larger than seen in the same month a year earlier and an output record for the country, oil regulator ANP said on Wednesday. Natural gas production increased 22% over January 2019 to 138…

Coronavirus Spurs Oil Majors to Cancel IP Week Events

Feb 19, 2020

The list of parties at London's International Petroleum Week, one of the world's biggest oil industry gatherings, continues to shrink as hosts such as ExxonMobil and Azerbaijan's SOCAR cancel events due to the coronavirus, trading sources said…

Malaysia's Kimanis Crude Exports to Halve in April

Feb 19, 2020

New repair works scheduled by Royal Dutch Shell in its oilfields in Malaysia are likely to halve exports of Kimanis crude cargoes in April and squeeze supplies in Asia, two sources said on Wednesday.Kimanis is Malaysia's largest export grade…

Pertamina, Petronas Swapping Crude Oil

Feb 18, 2020

Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina signed a framework agreement with Malaysia's Petronas to sell and buy crude this year, Pertamina said in a statement on Tuesday.The agreement is a follow up to their plan last year to swap crude…

Pemex Signs Contracts for New Oil Projects

Feb 18, 2020

Mexican national oil company Pemex has begun signing contracts with oilfield service firms specifically invited to submit bids for a new batch of priority exploration and production projects, the state-owned company's chief executive said. CEO…

Offshore Accounts for 60% of Oil Discoveries

Feb 16, 2020

Offshore discoveries accounted for more than 60% of global discoveries in 2019, up significantly on previous years, according to a study by GlobalData.GlobalData report reveals that while Colombia and Norway saw the highest number of discoveries drilled in 2019…

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