U.S. Offshore
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July 15, 2021
Oil fell for a second day after a surprise jump in U.S. gasoline stockpiles tempered signs that the American market has returned to robust health.
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July 14, 2021
While gasoline and diesel demand have returned to pre-pandemic levels, a surge in petroleum use for products such as plastic, asphalt, lubricants and other industrial needs is propelling the recovery.
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July 12, 2021
The Biden administration is preparing to release a blueprint for limiting sales of U.S. drilling rights as rising oil and gasoline prices highlight the risks of curtailing domestic crude production.
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July 08, 2021
Oil rebounded after a U.S. government report showed rapidly declining inventories and record-high fuel demand in the midst of the peak summer travel season.
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July 07, 2021
Oil companies will produce 20,000 barrels a day more than previously forecast for this year, at 11.1 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said in a report on July 7th.
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July 07, 2021
Biden administration officials are “encouraged” by ongoing OPEC talks and have spoken with officials in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in hopes of reaching an agreement to stem the rise in crude prices, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
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July 06, 2021
The Biden administration is urging OPEC and its allies to find a compromise solution to increase oil production, according to White House officials familiar with the discussions.
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July 01, 2021
Over the last four weeks total stockpiles, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, have fallen at a rate of 1.15 million barrels a day, marking the largest four-week decline on a rolling basis in Energy Information Administration Data going back to 1982.
Article
June 2021
Part 2: In April, the first half of this two-part feature documented industry’s failure to profitably exploit the massive Wilcox Lower Tertiary trend in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This second article evaluates how alternative technologies and strategies can make those failing assets profitable while reducing human and environmental risk.
Article
June 2021
The Subsurface Trend Analysis (STA) method is a data-driven approach, in which deductive geologic methods are integrated with spatiotemporal statistical autocorrelative methods. NETL has developed STA to better understand subsurface systems and predict their properties.
News
June 23, 2021
Iran and the U.S. are haggling over problems with the nuclear deal that predated the Trump administration’s 2018 withdrawal from the accord, a top Iranian government official said, suggesting that negotiations to bring Washington back into the fold have become more complicated than previously known.
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June 23, 2021
Philip LeJeune, LLOG’s President and CEO said “We are pleased to announce first oil from our Praline field, our first pipe-in-pipe tieback, and the continued successful development of our high quality prospect inventory. Praline is the first of four tieback projects we expect to have online in the next year."
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June 23, 2021
BP announced a significant milestone with the safe start-up of the Manuel project in the US Gulf of Mexico, the fourth of five major projects expected to be delivered globally in 2021.
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June 22, 2021
A key spread between monthly oil futures contracts has blown out to the widest level in seven years as traders bet that U.S. crude inventories are about to get a whole lot tighter.
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June 21, 2021
President Joe Biden’s administration rejected Nicolas Maduro’s call for relief from U.S. sanctions, saying the Venezuelan leader needs to do more toward restoring democracy before penalties would be lifted.
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June 18, 2021
A former judiciary chief with support from the highest levels of Iran’s religious and military establishment, Ebrahim Raisi’s election means that all of Iran’s state institutions and levers of power will be controlled by ultraconservatives.
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June 16, 2021
"Now is the time for the administration to put an end to this ‘import more oil’ policy that threatens American jobs and deprives state and local communities of much-needed revenue, all while likely increasing emissions and the risks of climate change," the American Petroleum Institute said in a statement.
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June 16, 2021
"The Department of the Interior is required by law to expeditiously develop America’s energy resources, and this includes the obligation to schedule and hold offshore oil and gas lease sales," said National Ocean Industries Association President Erik Milito.
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June 16, 2021
In a victory for 13 states that filed a legal challenge in Louisiana, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty granted a preliminary injunction blocking President Joe Biden’s Jan. 27 executive order banning new oil and gas leases on public lands while litigation continues.
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June 14, 2021
“There is substantial momentum across all segments of the economy in transparency and reporting of GHG emissions, sustainability, and ESG performance. The SEC should exercise restraint from taking any action that could hinder or otherwise complicate these ongoing efforts," said NOIA president Erik Milito regarding potential changes to the SEC's climate change disclosure rules.
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June 14, 2021
Oil markets are closely watching the negotiations for any clues as to when the OPEC member will be able to resume crude sales, and how quickly Washington will allow it to ramp up production.
