(Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jan.2025) — CNOOC Limited and 80883 said that Panyu 11-12 Oilfield/Panyu 10-1 Oilfield/Panyu 10-2 Oilfield Adjustment Joint Development Project has commenced production. The project is expected to achieve a peak production of 13,600 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in 2025. CNOOC operates the […]
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CNOOC Reports Record High Net Production and Net Profit in 3Q:24
(CNOOC Limited, 28.Oct.2024) — CNOOC Limited and 80883 announces its operating results for the third quarter of 2024. In the first three quarters of 2024, CNOOC Limited continued to increase its reserves and production, while effectively controlling costs and enhancing efficiency. Net production and net profit rose remarkably year over […]
CNOOC Brings Shenhai-1 Phase II Development Online
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Sep.2024) — CNOOC Limited said the Shenhai-1 Phase II Natural Gas Development Project has commenced production. The project is located in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea, with an average water depth of approximately 900 m, CNOOC said 27 Sep. 2024 in an official statement. The main […]
CNOOC Mades Major Exploration Breakthrough in Bohai Bay
(CNOOC, 15 July 2024) – CNOOC Limited has achieved a major exploration breakthrough in Mesozoic buried hill offshore Bohai Bay. Longkou 7-1 oilfield is located in eastern Bohai Bay, with an average water depth of about 26 m. The discovery well LK7-1-1 was drilled and completed at a depth of […]
CNOOC Subsidiaries Sign EPCCs with MIREME and ENH
(CNOOC, 24.May.2024) — On 24 May, CNOOC Limited announced that its wholly owned subsidiaries have entered into petroleum exploration and production concession contracts (EPCCs) with the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mozambique (MIREME) and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) for 5 offshore blocks in Mozambique. The contracts were […]
CNOOC Limited Achieves Strong Growth
(CNOOC, 25.Apr.2024) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883 (HKD Counter) and 80883 (RMB Counter), SSE: 600938) announced its operating results for the first quarter of 2024. In the first quarter, the company pressed ahead with oil and gas exploration and development, advanced the enhancement of quality and efficiency, and consolidated its advantage […]
Chevron Deal to Buy Hess at Risk as Exxon, CNOOC Eye Guyana Stake
(MarketWatch, 27.Feb.2024) — Chevron warned it may not complete its planned buyout of Hess as Exxon Mobil and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation are saying the planned deal would trigger their right to boost their stakes in a Guyana venture. The warning came in a Securities and Exchange Commission […]
CNOOC Limited Releases 3Q:23 Operating Results
(CNOOC, 24.Oct.2023) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883 (HKD Counter) and 80883 (RMB Counter), SSE: 600938) today announced its operating results for the third quarter of 2023. In the first three quarters of the year, the company continued to step up its efforts in exploration and development, thereby obtaining steady growth […]
CNOOC says Train 3 of Tangguh LNG commences production
(CNOOC, 19.Oct.2023, Words: 173) — CNOOC Limited announces that the first LNG cargo from the newly-built liquefaction train (Train 3) of the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia has been delivered. Tangguh LNG is located in Papua Barat Province in Indonesia, consisting of 6 offshore gas fields under 3 PSCs. The existing two-train facility has commenced production […]
CNOOC Says Enping 15-1/10-2/15-2/20-4 Project Commences Production
(CNOOC, 6.Dec.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announces today that Enping 15-1/10-2/15-2/20-4 oilfields joint development project has commenced production. Enping 15-1/10-2/15-2/20-4 oilfields are located in the Eastern South China Sea, with an average water depth of around 90 meters. The main production facilities of the project include 2 […]
CNOOC Says Jinzhou 31-1 Gas Field Project Commences Production
(CNOOC, 17.Nov.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced that Jinzhou 31-1 gas field development project commenced production. Jinzhou 31-1 gas field locates in Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea, with an average water depth of about 30 meters. The main production facilities include 1 subsea production system, 1 submarine transportation […]
CNOOC: Net Profit Doubled, Record-high Dividend Declared
(CNOOC, 25.Aug.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced its 2022 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. During the period, the company focused on the main business sector of hydrocarbon exploration and development. It pressed ahead with the “three major programs”, namely, Reserves & Production […]
Libra Consortium Starts Production at Mero Field’s FPSO Guanabara
(Shell Brasil, 2.May.2022) — Shell Brasil PetrĂłleo Ltda., a subsidiary of Shell plc, announces the start of production of the FPSO Guanabara in the Mero field, offshore Santos Basin in Brazil. The FPSO Guanabara, which while under construction was also known as Mero-1, has an installed capacity of 12 million cubic […]
CNOOC Reveals 1Q:22 Results after A Share Listing, Declares Special Dividend
(CNOOC, 28.Apr.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced its results for the first quarter of 2022. For the first quarter of 2022, the company seized the opportunity of oil price recovery to continue to increase its reserves and production, and actively promoted the green energy transition. Measures to reduce costs […]
CNOOC Limited Successfully Listed on the A-Share Market
(CNOOC, 20.Apr.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced that the company was officially listed on the A-share market, which marked the company’s success in building a platform for domestic and international capital management. It will open a new chapter for the company to set sail on a promising voyage […]
CNOOC Commences Production at Weizhou 12-8E Oilfield Development Project
(CNOOC, 8.Apr.2022) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883) announced that Weizhou 12-8E oilfield development project has commenced production. The Weizhou 12-8E oilfield development project is located in Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea, with average water depth of about 30 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing processing facilities of Weixinan oilfields, a total […]
NRGBriefs: Chevron Corp.’s $2bn debt in Venezuela [PDF downloads]
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2022, Words: 583) — Energy briefs including ExxonMobil Angola celebrating an important milestone for the Kizomba A FPSO in its achieving its 1000th crude offload; Petrobras filing its Form 20-F for the year ended 31 Dec. 2021; Ecopetrol reporting that the ordinary General […]
Petrobras On Mero Production Individualization Agreement
(Petrobras, 13.Dec.2021) — Petrobras announces that the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) approved, at the Collegiate Board Meeting No. 1074 held on 9 December 2021, the Production Individualization Agreement (AIP) of the Mero accumulation, located in the Santos Basin. The Mero joint reservoir comprises: – Mero […]
CNOOC Reports Significant Earnings Increase
(CNOOC, 19.Aug.2021) — CNOOC Limited (SEHK: 00883,NYSE: CEO, TSX: CNU) announced its 2021 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021. In the first half of 2021, faced with the complicated situation, the company further strengthened its business strategy, firmly advanced various production and operation tasks, and scaled […]
Guyana Re-launches Search For Co. To Market Govt’s Oil
(Reuters, 12.Jul.2021) — Guyana is re-launching a search for a company to market the government’s share of crude oil produced off the South American country’s coast to make the tender process “simpler and more competitive,” the natural resources minister said on Monday. According to the notice published late last week, […]
CNOOC’s Production Hits Record High
(CNOOC Limited, 25.Mar.2021) — CNOOC Limited announced its 2020 annual results for the year ended 31 December 2020. In 2020, CNOOC Limited strengthened confidence, focused on its own development, proactively responded to the sharp drop in international oil prices and the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, and built up a strict […]
CNOOC Reveals 2021 Business Strategy
(CNOOC, 4.Feb.2021) — CNOOC Limited announced its business strategy and development plan for the year 2021. In the extremely challenging year of 2020, under the leadership of the Board of Directors, the company’s management, together with all staff, overcame the huge impact from low oil price and the pandemic of […]
Guyana And Suriname To Benefit From Joining Forces
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Aug.2020) — Neighboring Guyana and Suriname in South America have been well off investor’s radars until recently. The countries are now regular headlines due to offshore crude oil discoveries, which hold much prospect to change fortunes for both governments and citizens alike if managed properly and by […]
CNOOC: Good Achievements With Cost Reduction
(CNOOC, 19.Aug.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its 2020 interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2020. Facing the unprecedented challenges in the first half of 2020, CNOOC Limited held fast to the bottom line of safe and healthy development, made timely adjustment to its business strategies, and took […]
Suriname Closes Oil Drilling Deal For Later This Year
(Stabroek News, 10.Jul.2020) — Having gone almost entirely unnoticed in the global oil & gas industry for decades, both Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are now claiming their respective shares of the global spotlight. With the US company ExxonMobil having begun to recover and export oil from the now well-known Stabroek […]
The Oil Nation Aiming To Emulate Guyana’s Success
(Oilprice.com, 20.Jun.2020) — Paths to economic development might vary, ranging all the way from ruthless dictatorships hewing their way with an iron fist to established democracies laboring towards the well-being of its constituents. In terms of swift decision-making and efficiency, 20th century empirical data would rather tilt towards dictatorships with […]
CNOOC Ltd Announces Key Ops Statistics For Q1 2020
(CNOOC, 29.Apr.2020) — CNOOC Limited announced its key operational statistics for the first quarter of 2020. The Company achieved a total net production of 131.5 million barrels of oil equivalent (“BOE”) for the first quarter of 2020, representing an increase of 9.5% year-over-year (“YoY”). Production from China increased by 9.7% […]
CNOOC: Production And Reserves Hit Record
(CNOOC, 25.Mar.2020 — CNOOC Limited announced its 2019 annual results for the year ended December 31, 2019. In 2019, CNOOC Limited has achieved remarkable results, with multiple operating indicators reached a record level since its listing. Total net oil and gas production of the Company amounted to 506.5 million barrels […]
Guyana To Export First Share Of Oil-Official
(Reuters, 12.Feb.2020) — Guyana is getting ready to export in the coming days the first cargo of Liza crude entitled to the government as share of the oil produced by a consortium led by energy giant ExxonMobil, the head of the country’s Energy Department said on Wednesday. The tanker Cap […]
Big Oil Stuns Brazil In Back-to-back Auction Flops
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 7.Nov.2019) — Major global oil firms snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row on Thursday, passing up promising offshore blocks and forcing officials to reconsider a bidding system that gives a privileged position to state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA. The only […]
Guyana Find Progresses Amid Political Tensions
(Forbes, David Blackmon, 29.Jul.2019) — Nothing is ever easy or simple in the world of international offshore oil and gas development. That axiom is proving to be true for the most prolific offshore oil discovery in recent years off the coast of the tiny South American nation of Guyana. Political […]
Shell Commences Production At Appomattox Field In U.S. Gulf Of Mexico
(Shell, 23.May.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore Inc (Shell) announces today that production has started at the Shell-operated Appomattox floating production system months ahead of schedule, opening a new frontier in the deep-water US Gulf of Mexico. Appomattox, which currently has an expected production of […]
CNOOC Limited Announces Appomattox Field Commences Production
(CNOOC, 23.May.2019) — CNOOC Limited announced the Appomattox Field in the US Gulf of Mexico has safely commenced production ahead of schedule. Appomattox Field is located approximately 128 kilometers southeast of Louisiana in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, with water depth of approximately 2,255 meters. Appomattox is the first commercial discovery […]
CNOOC Limited Announces Key 1Q:19 Operational Statistics
(CNOOC Ltd. 25Apr.2019) — CNOOC Limited announced its key operational statistics for the first quarter of 2019. The Company achieved a total net production of 120.1 million barrels of oil equivalent (“BOE”) for the first quarter of 2019, remaining stable compared to the same period last year. Production from offshore […]
CNOOC Says Guyana Success ‘Laid Foundation For Future Development’
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Oct.2018) — China’s CNOOC Limited announced that success in Guyana has laid the foundation for future development. “Successful drilling of Longtail Structure and Hammerhead Structure at the Stabroek block in Guyana further enhanced the asset value and laid a high-quality resource foundation for future development,” […]
Aker Solutions Wins Subsea Order for Libra’s Mero Field Offshore Brazil
(Aker Solutions, 5.Oct.2018) — Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Petrobras to provide a subsea production system and related services for the Mero 1 project within the Mero field development, one of the largest oil discoveries in Brazil’s pre-salt area. The subsea production system will consist of 12 vertical […]