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Total and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) have signed a contract for the development and production of phase 11 of South Pars (SP11), the world’s largest gas field. The project will have a production capacity of two billion cubic feet per day or 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day including condensate. The produced gas will supply the Iranian domestic market starting in 2021. This contract, which has a
Oil Search Ltd has reported that it has successfully completed a production test on the exciting Muruk gas discovery in Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands. Located in close proximity to PNG’s world class Hides onshore gas field, Muruk looks to be set to provide major impetus to plans to expand the country’s LNG export industry. The latest positive news has come with the undertaking of the first production test on
AS expected, OPEC and a large group of Non-OPEC supporting countries have agreed to continue their push to stablise oil prices by continuing to restrict production from their respective countries. In an overnight gathering in Vienna, Ministers from OPEC Member Countries met with their counterparts from non-OPEC oil producing countries with an agreement reached to extend production cut-backs for a further nine months – commencing from July 1. In announcing
Oil shot higher by over 3 percent overnight as the U.S. Crude Inventories dropped by a massive 5.2 million barrels against a drop of 1.8 million expected. Brent spot traded as high as 50.35 and WTI spot to 47.60 before both saw late session profit taking to open in Asia at 49.90 and 47.30 respectively. According to Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA, with the OPEC production cuts almost certainly
Australia’s Timor Resources Holdings has signed the world’s first agreement for onshore oil and gas exploration and production on mainland Timor-Leste, in an official ceremony in Dili. The Production Sharing Contract (PSC) was signed by Nepean Chairman David Fuller, the President of Timor-Leste’s national petroleum authority Autoridade Nacional do Petróleo e Minerais (ANPM) Sr. Gualdino Da Silva and Director of TIMOR GAP Norberta da Costa in the presence of Prime
Noble Energy, Inc. has announced that it has sanctioned the first phase of the US$3.5 Leviathan natural gas project offshore Israel, with first gas targeted for the end of 2019. Noble Energy is the operator of the Leviathan Field, which contains 22 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gross recoverable natural gas resources. Leviathan is Noble’s third major natural gas development offshore Israel. “Bringing Leviathan online will expand Israel’s supply of
THE floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) P-66 has successfully sailed from the Brasfels shipyard in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro. It is now heading to the Lula Sul module in the Lula field, Santos Basin pre-salt, where it is expected to arrive in the next few days. The production system will come online after the vessel has been moored and the first production well has been connected.
AUSTRALIA has been identified as one of the key targets for British subsea companies according to a new survey conducted by Subsea UK – a major participant in AOG 2017. Offshore USA, West Africa, South East Asia and Australia were identified as the major markets for UK subsea service suppliers in what they believe is an improving market. According to the 300 member companies surveyed by Subsea UK, 27% are
A CASHED up Premiere Eastern Energy to investigate new growth opportunities in the Chinese market. The ASX-listed Chinese petroleum market specialist recently reported that it has entered 2017 with a strong cash and cash equivalent position of A$126 million. The company that strong balance sheet position will allow it to take advantage of the current difficult oil price environment to seek opportunities to grow revenues. Premiere Eastern said this will
GLOBAL oilfield services giant Schlumberger is the latest company to suggest that 2017 will be the year the petroleum industry begins is climb out of the recent doldrums. Releasing their latest quarterly report, Schlumberger said that a tightening of the global oil and gas supply and demand balance in the second half of 2016 had been further strengthened by the December OPEC and non-OPEC agreements to cut production. The company
