CNOOC Ltd, the listed unit of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is embarking on a plan that envisages increased co-operation with foreign oil companies at home and overseas as it works to meet a targeted hydrocarbon production growth rate of between 6% and 10% per annum from now until 2015.
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell plans further cost cutting and lay-offs in an effort to “sharpen” its performance and increase profits.
OIL prices were robust this week, ending on a positive note on Wednesday due to a weak US dollar and after Opec decided to keep output targets steady.
Gas superpower Qatar is not alarmed over threats to its liquefied natural gas exports from a downturn in global demand and is keeping open the option of further developing its massive North Field reserves once a self-declared ban ends in 2014, Qatari Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah told Upstream.
Japan’s Nippon Steel is poised to land all four turnkey contracts valued at more than $200 million in total at Total’s South Mahakam gas and liquids development off Indonesia.
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Counting out the cash: Gazprom Neft
Russia's Gazprom Neft is planning to boost its capital expenditure by 36% this year to 89 billion roubles ($3.74 billion).
The producer - the oil arm of the country's gas giant Gazprom - said it would spend 67.8 billion roubles on oil production projects this year, while investment in exploration would amount to 5.6 billion roubles.
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