Production

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September 10, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell is gearing up to restart oil pipelines off the U.S. Gulf Coast, potentially moving the region’s top driller one step closer to restoring some production shut by Hurricane Ida.
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September 10, 2021
Phillips 66 may idle a New Orleans-area refinery that suffered so much damage during Hurricane Ida that repairs may be too costly, according to people familiar with the operation.
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September 10, 2021
Libya’s oil production is in danger of slumping again, as a political power struggle threatens to end a period of relative stability.
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September 09, 2021
Nigeria has sent a signal that the recovery in global oil demand still has some way to go, with volumes for next month’s loading struggling to find a home, even among its main customers.
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September 09, 2021
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production.
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September 09, 2021
Mexico cut its forecast for oil production at Pemex next year and reduced its tax burden after a string of accidents at offshore platforms signaled the highly indebted state company is struggling.
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September 09, 2021
“Commitments shown by Suncor Energy, Cenovus Energy, and Murphy Oil are extremely positive for the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas industry," Noia CEO Charlene Johnson said in a statement.
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September 07, 2021
Enbridge Inc., the Canadian pipeline giant, agreed to acquire Moda Midstream Operating LLC for $3 billion to add U.S. Gulf Coast oil export capacity. The deal will connect Enbridge with oil produced in the Permian and Eagle Ford shale basins.
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September 07, 2021
Aquaterra Energy has secured a multi-million-dollar agreement with a supermajor to deliver multiple Sea Swift platforms over a three-year period. The platforms will be destined for off the coast of the Cabinda Province, offshore Angola.
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September 03, 2021
The U.S. is granting a second refiner in Louisiana access to the country’s emergency crude stockpiles as most oil-producing platforms in the Gulf of Mexico remain offline after Hurricane Ida.
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August 31, 2021
OPEC and its allies expect global oil markets will continue to tighten this year even as they revive output, but then flip into surplus again in 2022.
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August 31, 2021
About 95% of Gulf of Mexico oil production, and 94% of gas output had been shut-in as of Monday, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
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August 30, 2021
U.S. gasoline futures jumped after Hurricane Ida barreled ashore in Louisiana, disrupting processing facilities. Oil reversed early gains as local rigs may have escaped significant damage and the OPEC+ producers’ cartel is expected on Wednesday to endorse a supply increase.
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August 30, 2021
Recoverable volumes from Troll phase 3, which will produce the Troll West gas cap, are estimated at as much as 347 billion cubic meters of gas. Converted into oil equivalent this amounts to 2.2 billion barrels.
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August 30, 2021
Sarawak Shell Berhad, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announced that it has taken a final investment decision on the Timi gas development project and, together with its partners PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd and Brunei Energy Exploration, look forward to delivering this for Malaysia.
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August 25, 2021
BP and PetroChina formed a joint venture to manage the giant Rumaila field in Iraq, an operating structure the British oil major has adopted in other parts of the world as it focuses on the energy transition.
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August 23, 2021
Operator Neptune Energy and its partners Idemitsu Petroleum Norge, PGNiG Upstream Norway and Sval Energi today announced the safe and successful start-up of production from the Duva development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
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August 18, 2021
ABS has brought together leading companies in the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) sector to address the safety challenges produced by a fleet where more than half of the ship type vessels are over 30 years old, and a quarter are over 40 years old.
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August 16, 2021
Woodside Petroleum is in advanced talks to buy BHP Group’s petroleum division for about A$20 billion ($14.7 billion), the Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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