Egypt Makes New Offshore Oil Discovery in Gulf of Suez

Egypt Makes New Offshore Oil Discovery in Gulf of Suez

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR) announced a new oil discovery offshore the Gulf of Suez, following the successful drilling of the Northeast Ramadan Crystal exploration well (NER-1X). The well is l...

Lukoil Sanctions Disrupt West Qurna-2 Operations

Russia’s Lukoil has declared force majeure on operations at Iraq’s 480,000 b/d-capacity West Qurna-2 field (WQ-2: Lukoil 75%op, North Oil Co 25%), ahead of the implementation of US sanctions on the company on 21 Nove...

SLB, MoPMR Host Workshop to Advance AI in E&P

SLB, MoPMR Host Workshop to Advance AI in E&P

Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR) organized the second workshop about the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in oil and natural gas Exploration and Production (E&P), in cooperation with SLB. T...

Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses

After more than two decades of fits and starts, the Banda gas project off Mauritania’s Atlantic coast looks for the first time like a genuine development project rather than a paper exercise. What was long considered a...

Aramco Seals 17 Major US Agreements Worth Over $30bn

Oil giant Saudi Aramco has made over $30 billion in 17 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and agreements with major companies in the US during a visit to Washington by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. These agr...

Kosmos Lifts First GTA Condensate Cargo

Having exported 1.05mn tons of LNG since its February start-up according to Kpler, the 2.3mn t/y Tortue FLNG project’s first condensate cargo was lifted in October, Dallas-based partner Kosmos Energy announced on 3 Nov...