The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has initiated its 2024 Licensing Round, unveiling an array of oil exploration opportunities.  According to the NUPRC, this latest offering comprises 12 new oil blocks and seven deep offshore assets carried over from...

ExxonMobil Guyana President, Alistair Routledge said during an April 30 press conference that the company’s reserves estimate for the Stabroek Block has not changed much beyond the 11 billion barrels stated in 2022.  The company made 10 more discoveries after...

ExxonMobil’s scheduled shutdown of the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to facilitate the Gas-to-Energy project pipeline hookup will occur sometime in July-August.  Country President, Alistair Routledge disclosed same at an April 30 press...

Petrobras' average production of oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas in the first quarter of 2024 reached 2.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), an increase of 3.7% compared to Q1 2023.  Petrobras said the increase...

Editor-in-Chief at GEO ExPro, Henk Kombrink, questioned why companies would announce a discovery when the actual proof is not there, following a March 18 release from Vancouver-based explorer MCF Energy that announced a “significant gas discovery” at its Welchau-1...

ExxonMobil said in its 2024 first-quarter earnings report that excellence in project execution and operations was demonstrated when the Payara project safely reached its nameplate production target of 220,000 barrels per day (b/d) in January.  Dutch floater specialist, SBM Offshore,...

Vallourec said it got a fourth major order in the framework of a 10-year Long-Term Agreement (LTA) it signed in 2021 with ExxonMobil Guyana. Under the contract, Vallourec will deliver line pipe for the Whiptail project.  Vallourec will deliver over...

H2SITE’s AMMONIA to H2POWER technology for ammonia cracking on-board has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR). The technology is an onboard containerised solution that produces fuel-cell-quality hydrogen using ammonia. This hydrogen can then be utilised by hydrogen...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kosmos Energy (NYSE/LSE: KOS) (“Kosmos” or the “Company”) announced today that it has successfully re-financed its reserve-based lending (“RBL”) facility extending the maturity by approximately three years, with the RBL facility’s final maturity now in December 2029. In conjunction...

ExxonMobil Guyana announced plans to establish enabling agreements for the provision and operation of platform supply vessels (PSV) and fast supply vessels (FSV) in Guyana waters. The company’s Request for Information (RFI) indicates the vessels need to be delivered by...