oil production

By the beginning of 2023, about 53% of Russia‘s oil reserves were classified as potentially preferential, of which 58% are hard-to-recover reserves. This is reported in the state report “On the state and use of mineral resources of the Russian Federation in 2022“, published by the Ministry of Natural Resources …

British BP, the technical operator of the Azeri–Chirag–Guneshli (ACG) offshore project in Azerbaijan, has begun drilling a second well at the field from the Azeri Central East offshore platform. Oil began to be pumped from the first well in April, now the production volume is 8 thousand barrels, Interfax writes. …

The Office of the President of the Russian Federation for National Maritime Policy will deal with issues of protecting Russia‘s rights on its continental shelf, follows from the regulations on the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for National Maritime Policy. The decree of the President of Russia …

They are needed for drilling complex multi-hole oil wells. The Izhevsk company United Solutions has developed gravity deposition units used on drilling rigs. This will allow domestic exploration and oil and gas companies to replace equipment from Europe and the USA. The Devon News Agency learned about this from a …

Nigeria‘s average daily production at the end of July exceeded 1.6 million barrels per day, compared to 1.25 million barrels per day in June, the Nigerian regulator NUPRC claims. Thus, the West African state retains the status of the largest oil producer on the continent. Nigeria‘s reserves are estimated at 37.5 billion …

Shell, the largest British oil company, announced that its subsidiary Shell Offshore Inc. has made a final investment decision (FID) on the flooding project at the Vito field in the Gulf of Mexico. The cost of the work was not disclosed. The process of pumping water into the reservoir to …

“We constantly support the trend of annual oil production growth. And this year is no exception,“ Petr Povzhik stressed. “The technologies that we use today for the development of hard-to-recover reserves are mainly related to drilling long extended horizontal shafts (at least 2 km each horizontal well) and performing multi-volume …

In the second quarter of 2024, the American oil company Marathon Oil increased its net profit and revenue, and also confirmed the annual production forecast. In April–June, the company‘s net income increased to $349 million, or 62 cents per share, from $287 million, or 47 cents per share, a year …

Harbour Energy, the UK‘s largest oil and gas producer, has published results for the first half of the year. The production forecast for 2024 has been improved with confirmation of the forecast for 2025. In the report, the company also said that the results achieved this year in various areas …

“Over the past five years, in the Republic of Belarus, we have performed a total of more than 3 thousand square kilometers of 3D seismic, about 4 thousand square kilometers of 3D seismic materials processing, drilled 209 thousand meters of rocks in the direction of search and exploration, drilled 52 …