It's hardly news that the COVID-19 pandemic has sent most every market into tumult, most notably the oil and gas market as political power plays flood the world with oil precisely when demand has plummeted. Here we provide some recent insights…
Norway, Western Europe's largest oil producer, will slash its output from June to December of 2020, the oil and energy ministry said on Wednesday, the first time in 18 years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices.'We will cut Norwegian production by 250…
A major Nigerian oil union has suspended planned industrial action after 21 Exxon Mobil Corp. employees quarantined last week after their arrest for violating coronavirus-related movement restrictions were freed, it said on Sunday.The governor of southern oil hub Rivers State…
ConocoPhillips said on Thursday it would slash planned spending 35%, cut production by about 225,000 barrels of oil per day {bpd) and suspend its share repurchase program to weather the collapse in oil prices.Oil and gas producers have sunk…
Flow assurance can keep offshore wells productive, and it requires successfully preventing or mitigating problems in the reservoir, the subsea flowlines and the topsides equipment.To prevent flow assurance problems, it’s necessary to identify potential issues…
A consortium led by Spain's Repsol including Germany's Wintershall DEA and Thailand's PTTEP have discovered two deepwater oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, the companies said on Monday.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has slammed…
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started a drilling campaign on the Fenja field offshore Norway, with the spud of the first well carried out by the West Phoenix drilling rig.Fenja is Neptune’s first operated development project on the Norwegian Shelf and is estimated to contain 97 million boe…
UK oil and gas producer EnQuest is planning workforce reductions in the UK as some of its North Sea fields are expected to cease production, while others will remain shut as part of a recently announced cost-cutting initiative.When it comes to the planned workforce cuts…
UK North Sea oil and gas company Serica Energy expects to see first gas from its Columbus development in late 2021, a six-month delay to what was previously targeted.The Columbus field plan, approved in 2018, envisions the reservoir will be…
Norwegian independent oil firm OKEA will ask its bondholders for a waiver of bond covenants and sees a risk of the Yme field development being delayed until 2021, the company said on Tuesday.The firm co-founded by Norway's former oil minister…
Woodside Petroleum is keeping a close eye out for assets that might come up for grabs from the oil supermajors amid the oil market rout, seeing itself in a position to bid, Chief Executive Peter Coleman said on Friday.The head of Australia's top independent gas producer said…
FPSO leasing company BW Offshore has secured a short-term contract extension with Petrobras for the floating production storage and offloading unit BW Cidade de Sao Vicente.'BW Offshore has received a notice from Petrobras that they exercise…
i3 Energy, a London-listed company focused on developing the Liberator field in the UK North Sea, has started talks with noteholders to seek waiver on previously agreed terms.In a statement on Friday, the company reminded that on 8 November 2019…
Indonesia's upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas will ask the Transport Ministry to exempt the sector from its ban on air and sea travel to reduce disruptions to drilling operations, an official at the regulator said on Friday.To curb the…
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has failed to find hydrocarbons at its offshore exploration well 6507/8-10 S in the Norwegian Sea.The well - known as the Grind prospect - was drilled about 10 kilometers east of the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea and 215 kilometers west of Brønnøysund…