With the Energy Transition gaining pace, several Exploration and Production (“E&P”) companies have adjusted their business models; both to reduce emissions and to mitigate climate-related business risks.
Each month, Westwood's subsea team provides a global update on subsea tree awards, with data sourced from, and analysed using, the new SubseaLogix service.
This oil and gas, potentially, worth more than $65[1] bn and costing an estimated $24bn to discover, represents 40% of the volume found in high impact discoveries in the period. Where is this resource located? Why is it stranded and how big an opportunity does it represent?
Video on demand for Westwood's October 2020 webinar on the Macro Outlook on crude supply/demand, E&P behaviour/s, upstream M&A and the summary outlook for our core business areas.
This note gives a preliminary assessment of the Premier Oil & Chrysaor deal, from each company’s perspective and the outlook for the merged company and the wider North Sea M&A market.
Westwood Global Energy Group has appointed David Linden to the newly-created role of Head of Energy Transition. The announcement comes as the company commits to helping the energy industry successfully navigate decarbonisation.
The report covers the historic period of 2014-2019, wherein the land drilling rig market was severely impacted by the reduction in drilling activity seen during the previous downturn, particularly in the North American market.
Adaptability is in our DNA – whether that’s flexing to client needs or understanding market circumstances – and it is what I believe has led Westwood Global Energy Group to where we are today.
Graeme Bagley presents presents the results of a study of over 500 wells drilled since 2008 with DHIs reported pre-drill and compares actual success rates against global exploration benchmarks for all wells.
Following the double whammy of the collapse in the oil price and the Covid-19 pandemic, exploration plans are being redrawn and the well count is expected to drop by as much as 35% on 2019 levels.
Jamie Collard shares analysis on frontier exploration performance over the past decade, focusing on its contribution to the search for new super basins.
With Brent trading well below US$30/bbl the resilience of the oil & gas sector is once again being pushed to its limit. What does this mean for the UK and Norway upstream sectors?
RigLogix has contacted a number of rig owners and operators and the consensus seems to be that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, especially if current conditions persist.
More oil and gas were discovered in stratigraphic traps than any other trap type in the last decade. Excelling in stratigraphic trap exploration is now the key to top quartile exploration performance.
Significant cost reductions have improved E&P cashflows and should drive increased offshore tendering activity in 2020. Pricing is expected to remain competitive, however, and contractors will need to remain focussed on profitability.
Westwood has investigated success rates for exploration wells which targeted the five direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHIs) most commonly reported by companies pre-drill.
