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Turkey Announces Major Shale Oil Reserve Discovery

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r basin in Turkeys southeast has a reserve of 6.1 billion barrels of shale oil, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, has said. Turkey's current annual (crude) oil import amounts to 365 million barrels. Continental Resources, the U.S. shale producer, has estimated that the Diyarbak?r

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Galp Expects New Field to Boost Its Production in Brazil by 40%

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Currently, Galp holds stakes in various oilfields in the deep waters of the Santos basin in the prolific pre-salt layer offshore Brazil. The Portuguese firms production in Brazil is about 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) at present. The expected start-up of the Bacalhau field, operated by Norways Equinor, is set

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Estimated 6 billion barrel shale oil reserve in southeast Turkey, minister says

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billion barrels in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir Basin, the Turkish energy minister said. Continental Resources and Turkish national oil company TPAO signed a joint venture agreement in March to develop shale fields in the basin. oil producer Continental Resources estimates there is a shale oil reserve of 6.1

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U.S. oil giants fight over Guyana’s 11-billion barrel treasure trove

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Guyanas Stabroek block has an estimated 11 billion barrels of oil in place discovered so far by the consortium of ExxonMobil, U.S. The high-volume, low-cost development offshore the South American country, which started production just five years ago, is already pumping more than 660,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. supermajor.

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Chevron to cut nearly 800 jobs in Texas Permian basin

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plans to lay off nearly 800 employees in the Permian basin, its biggest oil-production operation globally. Chevrons Permian production has grown rapidly in recent years, and is on course to reach 1 million barrels of oil equivalent a day (boed) in the coming months, which would make up nearly a third of the companys global output.

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Bayswater E&P closes $600 million sale of DJ Basin assets

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(World Oil) –Bayswater Exploration and Production (Bayswater), a Denver-based oil and natural gas development company closed the sale of certain Denver Julesburg (DJ) Basin assets to Prairie Operating Co. We remain committed to operating in the DJ Basin and look forward to rebuilding our Colorado footprint in the coming years.”

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Can OPEC+ Reclaim Market Share From U.S. Shale?

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WTI is currently trading around $60 per barrel, which is lower than the $61-62 per barrel breakeven cost for a new well in the Permian basin, an almost exclusive source of US crude supply increments. OPEC+ is seeking to regain market share lost to shale producers

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