Santos (ASX:STO) will take US$328 million ($470.8 million) in write-downs after slashing the volume of oil and gas reserves estimated in fields off Western Australia and other late-life ventures, despite increasing total reserves to a record level.
Australia’s Beach Energy (ASX:BPT) has significantly cut estimated gas reserves at its LNG export project near Perth, Western Australia, by 11% following the Waitsia Stage 2 drilling campaign. BP (LON:BP) has an agreement to offtake the liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes, which could be in doubt if the geology does not stack up as expected.
President Joe Biden announced the drawdown of an additional 15 million barrels of oil from US emergency reserves, as well as what he called a “ready and release plan” aimed at driving down gasoline prices.
China has no immediate plan to intervene in oil markets following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the foreign ministry.
Oil was steady after the biggest gain in two weeks following an announcement by the US of a coordinated release of strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) with other countries that fell short of expectations.
Dwindling inventories and concerns over energy security in key Asian economies may hamstring US efforts to arrange for a sizeable and coordinated release of strategic crude reserves in a bid to rein in prices and tackle inflation.
CNOOC, China’s third largest oil company, is expected to start production at Lingshui 17-2, a large deep-water natural gas field in the South China Sea, during the first half of 2021.
As expected, COVID wrought havoc with earnings, leaving ExxonMobil with an enterprise-wide return on capital employed of minus 9.5%. But the real story was not in the income statement; it was the estimate of oil reserves.
Genel Energy expects to record an impairment charge of $181million on its books for 2016 after reserves were downgraded at the Taq Taq field in Iraq.
Iraq is to start offshore exploration in a bid boot its OPEC reserves, the country's oil minister has claimed.
AGR has struck a frame agreement with Det Norske for annual, independent reporting of the company's reserves portfolio.
Mexico's oil and gas reserves dropped by 21.3% last year, according to the country's regulator.