(Oil Price)– ExxonMobil is expanding its exploration portfolio offshore Greece with a new farm-in agreement for a block in the northwestern Ionian Sea. ExxonMobil, Energean, and Helleniq Energy have reached a farm-in agreement under which the U.S. supermajor will buy 60% in the Block 2 concession in the northwestern Ionian Sea, next to the Italian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Energean said on
(World Oil) – Comstock Resources Inc. reported higher third-quarter earnings on improved natural gas prices and continued strong drilling results in the Haynesville and Bossier shales, while moving forward with the sale of its Shelby Trough assets for $430 million (USD). Natural gas and oil sales, including hedging gains, rose to $335 million, generating $190 million in operating cash flow.
(Oil Price) – Concern has been rising that artificial intelligence is killing jobs, and there is evidence to support this. But in the energy industry, executives are loving AI. A fifth of energy companies are already using the technology, and an overwhelming majority of executives believe AI is a force for good. For energy, it has been. AI is driving energy demand much
(Oil Price) – The world’s electricity demand is expected to surge by 30% over the next decade as data centers, electric vehicles, and demand for heating and cooling drive increased consumption, a new report by Rystad Energy says. Renewable power generation, especially solar energy, is expected to be crucial to meeting the electricity demand growth, found the report cited by Bloomberg. Renewable
(Oil Price) – Saudi Arabia has awarded one wind power and four solar power projects in the country worth a total estimated investment of $2.4 billion (9 billion Saudi riyals), the official Saudi Press Agency reports. Saudi Power Procurement Company, the principal buyer of the projects, awarded the five projects with a total capacity of 4.5 gigawatts (GW), as part of the
(Oil price)– Iraq signed on Tuesday a contract with U.S. company Excelerate Energy for the country’s first floating gas platform, the office of the Iraqi Prime Minister said, as OPEC’s second-largest oil producer aims to strengthen its gas supply and energy security. As part of the agreement, Excelerate Energy will provide a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) that will be
(Investing.com) – Natural gas prices could surge to $5 per million British thermal units in 2026 as demand rises and supply remains constrained, Morgan Stanley said in a new report assessing winter market scenarios. The bank forecast that U.S. gas storage levels will exit October at around 3.97 trillion cubic feet, roughly 5% above normal, but expects inventories to tighten sharply in the
(World Oil) – Shell’s LNG Canada is currently on track to load its first liquefied natural gas cargo from the facility’s second unit as soon as this week as the project continues to ramp up in the next month, according to people familiar with the matter. The unit, known as Train 2, began activities to start on Tuesday, according to reports.
(BOE Report)- Led LNG Canada has begun the process of starting up its second 6.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas processing unit known as Train 2 in Kitimat, British Columbia, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. The startup of Train 2, however, is happening as the company continues to experience technical problems at Train 1, according
(BOE Report)– Liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be European oil major Shell’s biggest contribution to the energy industry over the next decade in terms of value and as it seeks to cut emissions from fossil fuel production, CEO Wael Sawan said on Monday. Sawan has increased Shell’s focus on natural gas to improve the company’s financial performance against its peers
(World Oil)– Colombian oil producer Ecopetrol SA is pursuing oil and gas deals in Brazil that could include a cluster of onshore Petrobras fields in the northeastern state of Bahia. “We believe that Brazilian onshore has great potential, especially in natural gas,” Jorge Martínez, the head of Ecopetrol’s operations in Brazil, said in an interview from the company’s offices in
(Oil Price)– The discovery of the massive Vaca Muerta shale play was a game changer for the economically troubled South American nation of Argentina. The country, which with 2024 gross domestic product of $632 billion ranks as the second largest economy in South America and third largest in the broader region of Latin America, is rapidly becoming one of the region’s
