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DW: deepwater spend forecast drops 35%

Mar 08, 2016

Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasts deepwater expenditure to total US$137 billion from 2016-2020. This represents a 35% decline compared to DW’s previous edition of the deepwater forecast issued March 2015. The prolonged low oil price has impacted the deepwater market…

Chevron to cut capex, increase production

Mar 08, 2016

US supermajor Chevron is set to shave its budget by as much as 36% by next year, as the company approaches the finish line for global construction projects, and sets its sights on increasing production. Jack/St…

Chevron achieves first LNG at Gorgon

Mar 07, 2016

Chevron Corp. has begun production from its liquefied natural gas (LNG) and condensate at the Gorgon Project on Barrow Island off the northwest coast of Western Australia. The first LNG cargo is expected to be shipped next week. “We expect…

Mexico's rate of change

Mar 07, 2016

In early February, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto shook things up at the country’s oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), immediately replacing then-CEO Emilio Lozoya Austin with Mexico’s director of the Social Security Institute (IMSS) José Antonio González Anaya…

ICoTA appoints European chair

Mar 04, 2016

Elliot Kinch, business development manager for Interwell UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association's European chapter (ICoTA). Kinch, who takes up his appointment March 2016, has served on the organization’s committee for two years…

Petrobras starts up Sépia

Mar 02, 2016

Petrobras announced the start-up of the early production system in Sépia, the former Nordeste de Tupi area, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Sépia operations. Image from Petrobras…

ExxonMobil to add 450,000 boe/d by 2017

Mar 02, 2016

As ExxonMobil decreases its capital spending budget this year by 25%, the supermajor looks to start up 10 new upstream projects between now and 2017 that will see its production capacity increase. Tillerson…

ONE funding for UK Oil and Gas Technology Centre

Mar 01, 2016

Opportunity North East (ONE) is working with oil and gas industry leaders to establish Aberdeen as a global center for offshore technology research and development. The funding announced by the UK and Scottish governments through the…

Anadarko cuts budget, focuses on offshore

Mar 01, 2016

Anadarko is reducing its capital investments by nearly 50%, and plans to monetize up to US$3 billion of assets, as the company focuses on its offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico, and off Africa. Mozambique operations…

In your (completion) dreams

Mar 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin reports on Saudi Aramco’s work to improve recovery through “smart” completions, thereby simultaneously reducing intervention. Dr Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi speaking at the Society…

Studying hydrate management

Mar 01, 2016

Jerry Lee takes a look at recent work conducted by the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) to mitigate gas hydrate formation. Hydrate formation, deposition, and detection…

When the forecasts are flawed

Mar 01, 2016

Subsea processing market projections have consistently overestimated the growth of the market – DNV GL looked into why. Elaine Maslin reports. For the last 15 years a number of market outlooks…

Oilfield autonomy

Mar 01, 2016

AICDs are enabling production engineers to manage reservoir uncertainty along the well with better flow assurance and greater oil recovery says Tendeka's Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail. AICD in housing…

Data analytics for an emerging market

Mar 01, 2016

Henrique Paula, of ABS, explains how data analytics can be used to improve safety, environmental protection, operational efficiency, and profitability in emerging energy markets such as Mexico. One of the most promising and legitimate…

Embracing nanotechnology’s potential

Mar 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin examines some of the potential uses for nanoscale manufacturing in the oil and gas industry. Image provided by Repsol. Source: 'Commercial scale production of inorganic nanoparticles…

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