Angola, Gas and Oil

Chevron greenlights $5.6B Mafumeira Sul project offshore Angola

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Chevron Corporation’s Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited subsidiary will proceed with the development of the Mafumeira Sul project located offshore Angola. Once online in 2015, the project will build to a production capacity of 110,000 barrels of crude oil and 10,000 barrels liquefied petroleum gas per day.

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Sonangol, Maersk Oil and partners strike oil with their first deepwater pre-salt well offshore Angola

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola Empresa Pública (Sonangol, E.P.), Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin, a discovery well. The preliminary interpretation of the data indicated a potential flow capacity greater than 3,000 barrels of oil a day.

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Total and partners launch $16B ultra-deep Kaombo project offshore Angola

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APRIL 14, 2014

Total and its joint venture partners have made the final investment decision to develop the ultra-deep offshore Kaombo project in Angola. Associated gas will be exported to the onshore Angola LNG plant. During a shutdown, dead oil is circulated in both lines to displace the live oil.

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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Yet-to-find (YTF) resources will contribute to around 30% of the total production of natural gas worldwide by 2050, according to Yury Sentyurin, the Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference.

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BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

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JANUARY 1, 2014

Earlier in December, Cobalt International Energy announced a significant discovery at its Lontra well in the pre-salt play offshore Angola, in which BP holds a 30% interest. BP also confirmed the recently-announced Pitu oil discovery in the frontier deepwater of the Potiguar basin off Brazil’s equatorial margin, announced by Petrobras.

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Eni signs 3 cooperation agreements with Angolan national oil company, including biodiesel

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

Italy-based energy major Eni signed three agreements to further strengthen its cooperation with the Angolan national oil company, Sonangol. Eni said that this operation confirms Angola as one of the key countries in the company’s growth strategy.

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Total installs first subsea gas/liquid separation in 800 meters of water in Angolan deep offshore for heavy oil

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MARCH 12, 2011

Begun in December 2007, development of the Pazflor oil field 150 kilometers (93 miles) offshore Angola is one of the biggest projects currently operated by Total. A number of technological challenges—including subsea gas/liquid separation, a first—are being met to bring the field on stream. Pazflor SSU.

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Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

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MAY 2, 2021

The Saltend plant would purify rare earth sulfates, which would be imported from the company’s Longonjo mine in Angola. Angola is focused on diversifying its economy away from depending on oil, gas and diamonds, towards tourism, agriculture and value-added resource development.

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ExxonMobil brings Kearl oil sands expansion online ahead of schedule; overall capacity doubling to 220K barrels per day

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JUNE 17, 2015

Exxon Mobil has started production at its Kearl oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada ahead of schedule; the expansion is expected to double overall capacity to 220,000 barrels of bitumen a day, with the expansion itself ultimately expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day. Kearl will access approximately 4.6 Earlier post.).

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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APRIL 4, 2011

Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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Using new seismic imaging technique, BP finds significant additional resources in the Gulf of Mexico

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APRIL 28, 2017

As a result of this early success, BP now is deploying this technique to fields elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico as well as in Azerbaijan, Angola, and Trinidad and Tobago. The subsurface property models that are created by FWI are used to create high quality and high resolution images of oil and gas reservoirs.

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Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

By 2017, we expect our net crude oil and natural gas production to grow about 20 percent to 3.3 Approximately 87% of the 2012 spending program is budgeted for upstream crude oil and natural gas exploration and production projects. Angola: Angola LNG and development of Mafumeira Sul. million barrels per day.

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INPEX and Total launch the $34B Ichthys offshore Australia LNG Project; entire 8.5 Mt/y LNG output already sold for 15 years

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Japan-based INPEX Corporation and its joint venture partner Total have made the final investment decision (FID) for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia, representing an investment of US$34 billion dollars. Total Gas & Power Limited, the gas trading subsidiary of Total, will also purchase 0.9

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Statoil, Repsol Sinopec and Petrobras confirm high-impact deepwater discovery offshore Brazil

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Statoil defines a high-impact well as offering a total of more than 250 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), or 100 million boe net to Statoil. A test performed in a partial section of the pay zone flowed 5,000 barrels per day of light oil and 28.5 million cubic feet per day of gas. Pão de Açúcar. Click to enlarge.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Putin has highlighted on various occasions the contribution Russia’s mineral wealth, in particular oil and natural gas, must make for Russia to be able to sustain economic growth, promote industrial development, catch up with the developed economies, and modernize Russia’s military and military industry. percent of GDP in 2014.

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ExxonMobil Reserves Replacement in 2008 Was 103% of Production

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

billion oil-equivalent barrels—the bulk of it from Canadian oil sands—replacing 103% of production. Reserves additions from the Kearl Phase 1 oil sands project in Canada totaled 1.1 billion oil-equivalent barrels. billion oil-equivalent barrels. Additions to ExxonMobil’s proved reserves in 2008 totaled 1.5

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Equatorial Guinea, DRC to develop joint oil refinery and storage facilities

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

These include the financing and construction of an oil refinery in the DRC to be owned jointly by both countries to meet regional demand for refined petroleum products, along with the construction of storage facilities for refined products. —Equatorial Guinea’s Minister Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima.

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Eni reports important new discovery offshore Congo

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The exploration well, Nene Marine 3, was drilled in a water depth of 28 meters (92 feet) and encountered a significant wet gas and light oil accumulation in the pre-salt clastic sequence, outlining a significant extension to the west of the reservoir and its hydraulic continuity. billion barrels of oil equivalent in place.

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Chevron greenlights $5.6B Mafumeira Sul project offshore Angola

Sonangol, Maersk Oil and partners strike oil with their first deepwater pre-salt well offshore Angola

Total and partners launch $16B ultra-deep Kaombo project offshore Angola

GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

Eni signs 3 cooperation agreements with Angolan national oil company, including biodiesel

Total installs first subsea gas/liquid separation in 800 meters of water in Angolan deep offshore for heavy oil

Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

ExxonMobil brings Kearl oil sands expansion online ahead of schedule; overall capacity doubling to 220K barrels per day

GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

Using new seismic imaging technique, BP finds significant additional resources in the Gulf of Mexico

Chevron announces $32.7B capital and exploratory budget for 2012; LNG and deepwater investments propel a step change

INPEX and Total launch the $34B Ichthys offshore Australia LNG Project; entire 8.5 Mt/y LNG output already sold for 15 years

Statoil, Repsol Sinopec and Petrobras confirm high-impact deepwater discovery offshore Brazil

Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

ExxonMobil Reserves Replacement in 2008 Was 103% of Production

Equatorial Guinea, DRC to develop joint oil refinery and storage facilities

Eni reports important new discovery offshore Congo

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