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Equinor Makes Oil Discovery At Massive Arctic Field

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Equinor has made an oil discovery near Johan Castberg, which could boost reserves at the giant field in the Arctic Barents Sea. Equinor, whose Johan Castberg field has recently reached peak production, has struck oil in exploration well Drivis Tubåen, the Norwegian energy major said on Monday.

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Iraq Lifts Oil Output by 80,000 bpd Across Three Key Fields

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Iraq’s Dhi Qar Oil Company has raised oil production by a combined 80,000 barrels per day across three strategic southern fields, Nasiriyah, Gharraf, and Saba, IraqiNews reported on Monday, marking one of the country’s most significant boosts this year as OPEC+ opens the door to higher member output.

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Chinese Oil Major Discovers New Field

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Chinas state energy company CNOOC said today it had discovered a new oil field in the South China Sea that could contain over 100 million tons of crude oil, equal to around 733 million barrels. Dubbed Huizhou 19-6, the field is located some 100 miles offshore the province of Shenzhen.

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Equinor Invests $1.3 Billion to Expand Europe’s Biggest Oilfield

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billion (13 billion Norwegian crowns) in the Phase 3 expansion of the Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea, Western Europe’s biggest oil-producing field. Equinor and its partners have decided to invest $1.3 The Phase 3 development plan includes two new subsea templates, which will be tied into existing infrastructure via new pipelines.

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

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Portugal-based energy company Galp expects its oil production in Brazil to jump by 40% in the coming years as a new major field is set to begin production later in 2025, Nuno Bastos, EVP Upstream, has said. The Portuguese firms production in Brazil is about 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) at present.

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$17B in New Deals for World’s Largest Gas Field May Indirectly Go to Russia

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Its South Pars field spans 3,700 square kilometres and holds an estimated 14.2 trillion cubic metres (tcm) of gas reserves plus 18 billion barrels of gas condensate. Iran has awarded US$17 billion of contracts to attempt to reverse a dramatic projected production decline from the worlds biggest gas reservoir.

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New Oil Projects Set to Flood Market in 2025

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This year will see the highest amount of new oil supply in a decade, according to data analyzed by Raymond James that showed projected global additions of nearly 3 million barrels daily. But only if the price is right.

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