Summary August 10, 2025: Drone attacks, stalled export negotiations, and unpaid salaries continue to challenge the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) oil and gas industry, yet ambitious commercial investments and international mediation offer hope for recovery. The KRI faces persistent security risks, financial disputes with the Iraqi Federal Government (IFG)in »
July 28,2025: The conflict over oil exports from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) is rooted in constitutional ambiguities regarding authority over oil and gas management, leading to disputes between the Iraqi Federal Government (IFG) and the KRG. The IFG asserts sole authority over oil policy and exports, while the »
Pekisko Overview & Production History July 25, 2025: The Pekisko Formation, from the Mississippian period, consists mainly of platform and ramp carbonates and shales. It generally exhibits low porosity, which is improved along its eastern subcrop edge due to karstification. Hydrocarbon traps are commonly found in isolated structures, such as »
Introduction: The History and Scope of H.R. 1 H.R. 1 2025, also referred to as the “H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is a flagship piece of Trump legislation passed by the 119th Congress of the United States in 2025. Historically, the designation “H.R. 1” is reserved for bills considered »
A large increase in drilling and production costs in the USA Shale Oil sector will likely slow the growth of production from the Permian Basins. To just maintain production hundreds of new wells must be drilled each year due largely to the rapid decline in tight wells. In the Permian »
On April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, a catastrophic failure on the Deepwater Horizon platform resulted in a massive oil spill considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger »
Sonoro Energy Ltd (TSXV: SNV) with it local partner PT Menara Global Energi has won the Selat Panjang PSC in the 2019 Conventional Bid Round in Indonesia. Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arcandra Tahar announced the winner of 2019 Phase I Oil and Gas Working Area Offers with »
Solstad Offshore ASA has been awarded a contract by Ophir Thailand (Bualuang) Limited to perform the offshore installation of the Bualuang Charlie wellhead platform structure as part of the Bualuang Phase 4B Development Project. The Charlie platform will have 12 slots at full production will increase field production to 11,000 »
After much lobbying APPEA has announced the Western Australian Government’s decision to lift the hydraulic fracturing moratorium on existing onshore gas projects. How many studies need to be done to confirm that fracking kilometres beneath the surface of the planet has no material impact on the surface or the near surface »
Sonoro Energy acquired promising oil and gas acreage from Stockbridge Group in 2016 and set about drilling what proved to be a discovery. The company commenced drilling the LG-1 Updip appraisal well in October 2017, with site operations lasting 50 days, in part due to difficult drilling conditions and numerous »
The recent discovery of two thermogenic oil seeps 70 km apart onshore Jamaica, suggests that a previously unrecognised hydrocarbon system may well be present. Windsor Gas Seep A natural gas seep at St Ann, Windsor, in northern Jamaica is a well-known tourist attraction and money earner for locals, offering amongst »
Wall Street Journal Full Story The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline launched an unusual legal attack Tuesday against Greenpeace International and other environmental groups, alleging that the organizations effectively ran a criminal enterprise through their protests of the project. The suit by Energy Transfer Partners LP, filed in federal court in North Dakota under the Racketeer Influenced »
The state of the US and indeed western nuclear industries is exemplified by the decision on Monday to abandon the 35% completed Summer Nuclear Power Station project in south Carolina. These were the only nuclear plants being constructed in the United States and upon completion would have been the first new »
There has been much written on Fukushima and sadly much of it is ill-informed and misleading. Here we take estimates of radiation release from the most authoritative sources and calculate various radiation equivalents: Radiation release is listed in Peta 10^15 becquerels and becquerels. You are naturally radioactive at 5kBq and »
Chevron Indonesia has started production from the Bangka Field in the Kutei Basin offshore East Kalimantan following an investment decision by the company in 2014 and subsequent Indonesian government approvals. Development drilling commenced in September 2014. Geology The 60,000 km2 Kutei basin extends from the central highlands of Borneo, across »
