Majors To Grow Output By A Combined 15% In Next Five Years

03/08/17 •lweb.es/f2711•bit.ly/2pfkt4O

Oil, World

Five of the largest publicly traded oil companies – BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and Total – are trying to work down debts that totaled $297 billion at the end of December. “For the entire oil and gas industry, balance sheets have never been worse,” said Fadel Gheit from Oppenheimer & Co. The industry is betting that prices will maintain a delicate balance – high enough to repair balance sheets and finance new projects, but not so high that it creates a new glut.

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India’s First Major Exploration Licensing Round In July

03/08/17 •lweb.es/f2716 •bit.ly/2oUmofL

Exploration, India, Oil

India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, will conduct auctions of oil and gas blocks under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy twice a year with the first round being held in July. OALP will differ from the current licensing policy whereby the government identifies the oil and gas blocks and then puts them on auction. This policy gives an option to a company looking for exploring hydrocarbons to select the exploration areas on its own, based on the seismic and well data that the Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons has put in in a National Data Repository.

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India Looks At Myanmar’s Oil And Gas

03/06/17 •lweb.es/f2709 •bit.ly/2pfbPTV

gas, India, Oil

“The prospect of deepening Myanmar-India ties are very interesting and could potentially be quite wide,” said Michal Meidan, Asia Energy Policy Analyst at Energy Aspects. “Indian refiners are increasingly looking to sell products to Myanmar in order to tap a growing market. This makes sense both on the geopolitical level where India is increasingly seeking regional influence – and Myanmar will be pleased to hedge against China, and in terms of Indian refiners’ corporate needs to deepen their presence in new markets,” she added.

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Gulf Of Mexico Lease Sale To Reduce Dependence On Foreign Oil

03/06/17 •lweb.es/f2717 •bit.ly/2nWZ0NX

Oil, USA

73 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida will be offered for oil and gas exploration and development. The proposed lease sale scheduled for August this year would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and is part of President Trump’s plan to make the United States energy independent. The estimated amount of resources projected to be developed as a result of the proposed lease sale ranges from 0.211 to 1.118 Billion barrels of oil and from 0.547 to 4.424 Trillion cubic feet of gas.

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Hess CEO Sees Global Oil Supply Crunch Looming

03/06/17 •lweb.es/f2714 •bit.ly/2okjF1o

Oil, Shale, suppliers, World

A significant, years-long oil supply crunch may be approaching due to insufficient investment in exploration and production, Hess CEO John Hess said at the IHS CERAWeek, and this will begin showing up in declining offshore supply. He added that “The shale business is back in business and starting to grow again,” but such growth in US shale would not be enough to meet global oil demand, which the International Energy Agency has projected to grow between 1.4-1.6 million barrels a day over this year and the next.

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Saudis Defending Sales Against Rising U.S. Exports

03/06/17 •lweb.es/f2713 •bit.ly/2oOa8ks

Asia, markets, Oil, prices

Saudi Arabia has cut the pricing for some of its April oil sales to Asia, showing that it is trying to lure buyers toward its lighter and less sulfurous crude varieties. “This came as a complete surprise to the market,” said Tushar Tarun Bansal, director at Ivy Global Energy in Singapore. “This is a signal from the Saudis that they are serious about market share and pricing crude competitively, and would even be open to changing the methodology if the need arises.” This is the producer’s latest effort to defend sales in Asia.

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India-Gulf Cooperation Council: Delhi’s Strategic Opportunity

03/05/17 •lweb.es/f2642 •bit.ly/2nWdPAm

energy, India, Middle East, Oil

Ties between the Gulf and India stretch back several millennia. Until the last decade or so, the relationship was still being driven almost exclusively by economic interests: energy trade and migrant labor. Now, however, the agendas of rising powers like India and China are expanding, including in the Middle East. Specifically, India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ties will be among the most important relationships for both sides in the coming decades. The emergence of several factors is forcing New Delhi to consider the strategic aspects of those ties…

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Southeast Asia’s Oil & Gas Sector: Opportunities For Growth

03/13/17 •lweb.es/f2708 •bit.ly/2oO44IK

employment, gas, Oil, Southeast Asia

According to Rigzone’s Ideal Employer Survey the top three attributes that oil and gas professionals value most in an employer are “a commitment to health and safety”, “competitive salary” and “positive organizational culture”. With respect to the “ideal employer”, the first three rankings go to Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, both globally and in the Southeast Asia region. Southeast Asia has suffered with the global oil glut but it still has opportunities for growth. InvestKL, for example, is working closely with PETRONAS to help attract large global multinational oil and gas companies.

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Canada’s Oil Sands: Big Energy Producers’Achilles Heel

03/02/17 •lweb.es/f2646 •bit.ly/2ocvx54

Canada, Oil

The oil-sands operations in northern Alberta are among the costliest types of petroleum projects to develop because the raw bitumen extracted from the region must be processed and converted to a thick, synthetic crude oil. These operations have been particularly hard hit by the worst oil slump in a generation. Exxon and Conoco, for example, have removed a combined 4.65 billion barrels of oil-sands crude worth $183 billion from their books. Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules, proved reserves can only include oil and gas fields that can be produced economically within the next half decade.

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$70 Billion Each For Shale Plays And Offshore Projects This Year

lweb.es/f2650 02.20.2017

Investments, Offshore, Oil, Shale, USA

For every dollar invested this year in North American shale plays another dollar will be allocated for planned projects offshore racking up spending of $70 billion in each sector, analysts at Rystad Energy said: “Offshore projects that were uncommercial at $110 per barrel in 2013 are now commercial at an oil price of $50 per barrel.” However, Rigzone Data Services said offshore investment declined 30-35% in 2016 and offshore capital expenditure is expected to decline for the current year. According to Diamond Offshore, it’s difficult for deepwater operators to compete with the unconventional space.

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CNPC Buys Stake In Abu Dhabi’s Largest Oil Concession

lweb.es/f2652 02.19.2017

Asia, Middle East, Oil

China National Petroleum Corp. bought a stake in Abu Dhabi’s largest oil concession as the Middle Eastern emirate with 6% of global crude reserves looks increasingly to Asia, its biggest market, for investment to raise output capacity. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. awarded CNPC an 8% stake in the onshore venture. “If you’re Abu Dhabi and looking for demand growth, China is the future and its demand is going to continue to grow”… “For the big buyers in Asia, the logical source of that future supply is the Gulf,” said Amereller Legal Consultants.

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India Steps Up Efforts To Boost Domestic Oil And Gas Production

lweb.es/f2658 02.17.2017

gas, India, Oil

Following its first oil and gas field auction in six years India has decided to award the bulk of the operating licenses to new players. The operating licenses are for 31 contract areas comprising 44 oil and gas fields and have been awarded under a revenue-sharing model. These contract areas would monetize 40 million metric tons of oil and 22 billion cubic metres of natural gas over 15 years for the Indian government. India’s oil demand growth will outpace China‘s for the third year in a row in 2017.

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