9月17日油氣行業十大新聞

EIA 2016 Report Released. Report forecasts $80 brent by 2020 and $136 by 2040. This 256-page annual report covers every aspect of U.S. energy put together by scores of government analysts.

Iran Hits Five Year High. Iran’s August crude oil exports jumped 15 percent from July to more than two bpd, according to a source with knowledge of its tanker loading schedule, closing in on Tehran’s pre-sanctions shipment levels of five years ago.

Freeport-McMoRan Has Office Space For Sale. A sign of the times in the Houston market: anyone looking for 355,000 square feet of office space? Anadarko might be the real winner with Freeport’s demise.

French ENGIE Hits in North Sea. Oil and gas discovery near the existing Gjoa field in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea. Service companies rejoice.

W&T Offshore Buys Time. W&T works the financial angle to buy more time with a bond swap. S&P states cash may run dry in 12 months. Over 100 American O&G gas producers have gone bankrupt since 2015. [Bloomberg]

ExxonMobil Still Under Government Pressure. Accounting probe continues. “We don’t do write-downs,” CEO Rex Tillerson told trade publication Energy Intelligence last year. “We are not going to bail you out by writing it down. That is the message to our organization.” [CNBC]

Petrofac Moves Further into Wind. With a big design contract win in the North Sea wind market, the trend toward finding revenue where one can continues. [Petrofac]

Cheniere: Substantial Completion of Train 2. Cheniere Energy Partners announced that Substantial Completion of Train 2 of the Sabine Pass liquefaction project was achieved yesterday. [WDRB] Throwback: nine months ago Oilpro Staff did a flyover of the Sabine Pass Facility. Check out the photo sideshow.

Adnoc pushes to the right. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has cancelled the tender process for key front-end engineering and design contracts related to a pair of offshore gas developments. [Upstream]

ENI Safety Shakeup. Eni is shaking up safety measures at the Goliat platform in Norway’s Arctic in a bid to draw a line under a series of incidents that have hurt production at the world’s northernmost offshore oil field.