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Maersk Drilling awarded contract extension to drill world record well in Angola; 2.25-mile water depth

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

TotalEnergies E&P Angola has exercised an option for the 7 th -generation drillship Maersk Voyager to drill the ultra-deepwater Ondjaba-1 exploration well in Angola’s Block 48. It is currently operating offshore Angola for TotalEnergies. The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m (2.25

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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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New Major Oil Discovery in Angola Deep Offshore

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JULY 14, 2010

An Eni-led consortium announced a new major oil discovery in Block 15/06 in the deep offshore of Angola. Initial evaluations indicate that the discovery holds material volumes of oil in place of high quality, Eni said. 5%) and Statoil Angola Block 15/06 Award AS (5%).

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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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Eni announces first production from the Junin-5 giant heavy oil field in Venezuela

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MARCH 17, 2013

PetroJunín, joint venture formed by PDVSA (60%) and Eni (40%), has started production from the Junín-5 giant heavy oil field, located in the Faja del Orinoco—the area with the largest untapped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, according to Eni. Deepwater Angola. Junin 5 block in the Orinoco.

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Bad News: Record Oil Imports into China in 2023

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APRIL 16, 2024

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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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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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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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IEA March Oil Market Report revises 2015 demand forecast upward

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MARCH 13, 2015

out in the second quarter of 2014, global oil demand growth has since steadily risen, with year?on?year mb/d for the current quarter, according to the IEA Oil Market Report for March. mb/d, as losses in Libya and Iraq offset higher supply from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Angola. Having bottomed?out year gains estimated at around 0.9

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IEA: non-OPEC oil supply tops 43 mb/d for first time in decades; global demand to reach 92.4 mb/d in 2014

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Oil Market Report (OMR) for December raised the estimate of global oil demand for 2013 by 130,000 barrels per day (130 kb/d) to 91.2 Global oil supplies increased by 310 kb/d in November to 92.3 Global demand is now seen advancing by 1.2 mb/d in both 2013 and 2014, to reach 92.4

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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. The Pazflor oil field comprises four reservoirs. One of them, Acacia, was formed around 25 million years ago in the Oligocene and contains light oil.

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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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EIA: China is now the world’s largest net importer of petroleum and other liquid fuels

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MARCH 26, 2014

In September 2013, China’s net imports of petroleum and other liquids exceeded those of the United States on a monthly basis, making it the largest net importer of crude oil and other liquids in the world, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). million barrels per day, primarily from tight oil plays.

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

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference. According to Sentyurin, around 80% of the natural gas production by mid-century will stem from new projects, highlighting the importance of continued investment in upstream. —Secretary General Sentyurin.

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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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Cobalt and Total announce significant North Platte deepwater Gulf of Mexico discovery

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

an independent oil exploration and production company focusing on the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola and Gabon, announced a significant oil discovery at its North Platte prospect on Garden Banks Block 959 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Cobalt International Energy, Inc.,

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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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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 Pão de Açúcar. Click to enlarge. million cubic feet per day of gas. Source: Statoil.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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AUGUST 25, 2015

OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil prices rather than to continue Saudi Arabia's role of guarantor of $100+/bbl oil. billion vs. $1.6 billion) and $1 billion ($2.5

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

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APRIL 4, 2011

Worldwide, billions of cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas are wasted annually, typically as a by-product of oil extraction. Depending on region, these may include power generation; gas re-injection (for enhanced oil recovery, gathering and processing); pipeline development and distributed energy solutions. Advance local solutions.

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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

Ichthys will develop approximately 3 billion barrels oil equivalent of reserves, including around 500 million barrels of condensate. million tons per year) has already been sold for 15 years under oil-linked price contracts, mostly directed to third-party consortiums of Taiwanese and Japanese buyers including INPEX.

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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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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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Maersk Drilling awarded contract extension to drill world record well in Angola; 2.25-mile water depth

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

New Major Oil Discovery in Angola Deep Offshore

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

Eni announces first production from the Junin-5 giant heavy oil field in Venezuela

Bad News: Record Oil Imports into China in 2023

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

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

Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

IEA March Oil Market Report revises 2015 demand forecast upward

IEA: non-OPEC oil supply tops 43 mb/d for first time in decades; global demand to reach 92.4 mb/d in 2014

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

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

EIA: China is now the world’s largest net importer of petroleum and other liquid fuels

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

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

Cobalt and Total announce significant North Platte deepwater Gulf of Mexico discovery

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

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

Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

ExxonMobil Reserves Replacement in 2008 Was 103% of Production

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

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

Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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

Eni reports important new discovery offshore Congo

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