Ahmad Farid Moazz, general manager of the Canadian oil exploration company Sea Dragon operating in Egypt, confirmed that the company’s total production is currently at 1,000 b/d.
Global oil prices rose in mid August amid news of declining US shale oil production, and rumors of an emergency OPEC meeting, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The US Senate voted on a bill to allow additional oil drilling off the Florida coast, lifting a former moratorium on drilling within 50 miles of the coast, reported ABC News.
OPEC member Algeria has increased crude oil output by 32,000 barrels per day after starting production at two fields, an energy ministry official said on Sunday.
For Chevron Corp., a dollar spent in the Permian Basin can get 35 percent more oil out of the ground than it could last year, as drilling costs have fallen and as the company works faster on more fertile wells.
The Aje shallow-water field offshore Lagos might begin crude oil production before the year runs out following the commencement of drilling on the Aje-5 production well on the Oil Mining Licence 113.
Sherif Ismail, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources received a report from Atef Hassan, head of Belayim Oil Company (Petrobel) about the company’s new strategy to maximize the country’s petroleum wealth, in it ...