1. OPEC认为石油市场趋向平衡
周一早晨，OPEC对外公布了月度报告，并在这份报告中表示：尼日利亚和加拿大的石油供应中断状况促使石油供需趋衡，油价因此上升。
2. 周一早晨 油价下跌
周一，油价下跌。近期美国钻井数量上升，这表明油价上涨促使生产商增产，而刚刚重归平衡的市场再次面临压力。
3. 美国钻机数量连续两周保持增势
美国石油钻机数量增至328，而天然气钻机数量则增至85。过去两周，美国钻机数量持续增加，为自2015年以来的首次连增。
4. NIOC总经理辞职
NIOC 发布消息称：National Iranian Oil公司总经理Rokneddin Javadi辞职，由Ali Kardor接替职位。Rokneddin Javadi转任副部长一职，负责监管油气资源。
5. NYK购买EMAS Chiyoda Subsea主要股权
日本船商Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK)公司决定购买EMAS Chiyoda Subsea公司25%的股份，EMAS Chiyoda Subsea是一家由新加坡公司Ezra Holdings和日本公司Chiyoda Corporation共同拥有的海洋服务公司。从此，Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha迈出了转向海洋行业发展的重要一步。
6. 阿尔及利亚任命新能源部长与财政部长
目前，阿尔及利亚正忙于应对油气收入锐减所带来的巨大压力。周六，阿尔及利亚总统Abdelaziz Bouteflika在内阁改组时任命新能源部长与财政部长。
7. 欧洲中央银行认为油价下跌不利于经济发展
欧洲中央银行认为：自从2014年以来，油价一直较低，这对全球经济发展产生了不利影响。
8. ConocoPhillips致力于不断提升弃井效率
ConocoPhillips在北海南部海域对130口井进行了弃井作业。虽然通过不断总结经验，ConocoPhillips已经大幅提升了弃井效率，但ConocoPhillips依然在不断改进。
9. IOG收购Oyster Petroleum股权
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG)与Verus Petroleum公司签订了一项购买合同，IOG将收购Verus子公司Oyster Petroleum的全部股权。
10. 潜在的危险 --- 浮冰与冰山
北冰洋上的冰山与浮冰已经成为了潜在的危险，一旦这些冰山和浮冰与船舶或钻井平台相撞将造成严重的损失，并对环境产生极大的损害。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
来自/Oil Pro 6月13日消息 编译/赵宁
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OPEC Sees A "More Balanced Oil Market" Towards End Of The Year. In its monthly report released Monday morning, OPEC said supply disruptions in Nigeria and Canada "brought supply and demand more closely into alignment earlier than many had expected, bolstering prices." [Oilpro]
Oil Prices Under Pressure Early Monday. Oil prices kicked off the week in the red after U.S. drilling data showed another increase, reinforcing views that the recent price rally may restrain the nascent rebalancing of the oversupplied market by motivating producers to restart closed wells. [MarketWatch, Oilpro]
U.S. Rig Count Rises For 2nd Straight Week. The number of oil rigs rose by 3 to 328. The number of gas rigs likewise rose by 3 to 85. This brings the total active U.S. rig count to 414. The past two weeks mark the first consistent increase since July 2015. [Oilpro]
Iran Shakes Up Oil Leadership. Rokneddin Javadi, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Co. since 2013, has resigned and been succeeded by Ali Kardor, NIOC said on its website. Mr. Javadi has moved on to become deputy minister in charge of supervising hydrocarbon resources, the company said. [MarketWatch]
NYK Buys Major Stake In EMAS Chiyoda Subsea. Japanese shipowner Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) has made a stunning move into the offshore sector after agreeing to purchase a 25% stake in EMAS Chiyoda Subsea, the offshore operator owned by Singapore's Ezra Holdings and Japan's Chiyoda Corporation. [Oilpro, Splash 247]
New Algerian Energy & Finance Ministers Named In Reshuffle. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika named new energy and finance ministers on Saturday in a cabinet reshuffle, as the OPEC member tries to cope with a sharp fall in oil and gas earnings that have placed increasing pressure on its finances. [Fortune]
ECB Says Oil-Price Slump Not the Global Boon It Might Have Been. Cheaper oil prices since 2014 have probably been of little net benefit to the global economy and may even have been a drag on growth, according to the European Central Bank. [Bloomberg]
Put A Plug In It. ConocoPhillips is working to plug and abandon 130 wells in the southern North Sea, reducing the number of days it takes as it works through the program. But, it wants to improve further. [oedigital, Oilpro]
IOG Acquires Oyster Petroleum Shares. Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Verus Petroleum Ltd. to acquire 100% of the shares ofOyster Petroleum Ltd, a subsidiary of Verus. [Oilpro]
Sonar To Listen For Moving Icebergs Near Arctic Oil Platforms. Run silent, run deep. There are hidden dangers in the Arctic Ocean. Submerged icebergs and other drift ice can cause serious damage and environmental disasters if they collide with ships or oil platforms. But soon we may be able to hear them coming. [newscientist.com, Oilpro]
Meet Gary Card Of Weir Oil & Gas, #HUMANSofOG. He writes, "The oilfield business has been great to me through all the ups & downs! I have learned many skills during my 30 plus years in the business. My favorite has turned out to be 3D printing!" [Oilpro]
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SANTIAGO, June 13 (Reuters) - Chilean state oil company ENAP has signed a deal with ConocoPhillips to explore and eventually exploit gas deposits in the nation's remote southern Magallanes region, a source familiar with the agreement confirmed on Monday.
Local newspaper El Mercurio first reported the deal in which ENAP will retain a 51 percent stake in the project. A source speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity confirmed the agreement.
The project will be rolled out in phases depending on the success of each stage, with ConocoPhillips possibly investing between $70 and $100 million over the next four years, according to the paper.
ENAP CEO Marcelo Tokman told Chile's La Tercera newspaper earlier in June that it was planning to solicit outside funding in 2016 to fund an ambitious $800 million investment plan, which included gas exploration in Magallanes.
ENAP, Chile's main oil refiner and a key provider of fuel to the domestic market, produces little crude oil but has invested heavily in gas exploration in the southern part of the country.
STAVANGER, Norway -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the licensees in Gullfaks (PL050) consent to start-up the facilities on the Rutil deposit and to start producing.
Rutil is a gas-filled structure on the Statoil-operated Gullfaks South, in the Tampen area of the North Sea.
Rutil will be developed with a standard subsea template with four well slots with two gas production wells. The subsea template is tied into the existing infrastructure on the Gullfaks A facility for processing and export.
In the Plan for Development and Operation of Rutil, submitted in December 2014, the operator, Statoil, estimated that the in-place volumes are 17.9 billion Sm3 of gas and 2 million Sm3 of condensate. Expected recoverable reserves are 11.9 million standard oil equivalents.
Production is scheduled to start in August or September—several months earlier than originally planned.
As a result of the global oil glut that has been the cause of more than 350,000 jobs lost since late 2014, energy companies have been forced to make difficult decisions, including filing for bankruptcy. Houston-based contract drilling company Hercules Offshore, Inc. is one such company, and in fact, has filed for bankruptcy twice in a year’s time – most recently June 6.
As part of the bankruptcy process, Hercules anticipates a complete shutdown of its facilities. This has resulted in the permanent terminations of 60 employees at the company’s Houston headquarters, according to data sent to the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).
A few weeks ago, GE Oil & Gas began its layoffs of 362 workers in Lufkin, Texas due to efforts to consolidate manufacturing operations in a “lower for longer” oil price environment. And just a few days prior to that, oilfield equipment supplier National Oilwell Varco communicated to the TWC it was laying off more than 50 workers at its Galena Park facility near Houston in July.
This downturn is being described as one of the worst in the industry’s history and with many organizations executing several rounds of layoffs, many are beginning to question ‘when will it end?’ And though the price of oil has eased its way up to $50 per barrel, the industry should be careful not to rally too prematurely because no one can truly predict what the market will do.
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Crude fell the most in 10 weeks as the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. climbed and the U.S. dollar strengthened against its peers.
Futures tumbled 3% in New York. Rigs targeting crude in the U.S. rose by 3 to 328 this week, capping the first two-week gain since August, Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday. The dollar rose, making commodities denominated in the currency less attractive as an investment. Prices climbed earlier this week as U.S. crude stockpiles declined and disruptions cut Canadian and Nigerian supply.
Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citi Futures Perspective in New York, said even though the "market is so intensely focused on the rig count now," the two-week gain won’t have much effect on actual supply in the near-term.
"The uptick can at most be considered an inflection point where the rig-count decline stopped. It will take at least six months before it will be reflected in supply," he said.
Oil has surged about 90% from a 12-year low in February as the global glut is trimmed by disruptions and a slide in U.S. output, which is under pressure from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ policy of pumping without limits.
West Texas Intermediate for July delivery slipped $1.49 to settle at $49.07/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the biggest decline since April 4. Futures rose 0.9% this week. Total volume traded was 6.8% below the 100-day average.
Commodity Decline
Brent for August settlement dropped $1.41, or 2.7%, to $50.54/bbl on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The North Sea crude, used as a global benchmark, climbed 1.8% this week. Brent closed at an 82-cent premium to WTI for August delivery.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, which tracks the currency against 10 major peers, rose as much as 0.8% after rallying 0.4% on Thursday. The Bloomberg Commodity Index looked set for a second day of losses Friday.
Global stocks headed for the biggest drop in two months and bond yields slid to record lows as investors braced for next week’s Federal Reserve meeting and Britain’s referendum on European Union membership later this month.
"Ninety percent of the world’s oil is dollar-denominated," so any change in dollar value will "feed through pretty directly," Paul Sankey, an energy analyst at Wolfe Research LLC, said on Bloomberg Radio. "We are expecting Canadian production to come back soon."
Alberta Wildfires
Fires in Canada’s oil-sands region are expected to disrupt supplies by an average of 400,000 bpd this month, after peaking at more than 1.1 MMbpd of lost production in May, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Cenovus Energy Inc. is in the process of restarting production at the Pelican Lake oil field after shutting operations on Wednesday.
Oil producers in Nigeria are facing a renewed wave of violence in the delta region that accounts for most of the country’s crude. The country’s output dropped to the lowest in almost three decades as armed groups intensified attacks to rupture pipelines in recent months.
U.S. crude stockpiles fell 3.23 MMbbl to 532.5 MMbbl last week, the lowest since April 1, data from the EIA showed.
Australia's junior oil explorer and producer Bounty Oil & Gas NL reported Friday that it has closed the May 18 agreement with two subsidiaries of the Bridgeport Energy Ltd. group to acquire additional oil development and exploration interests in Petroleum Lease 2 (Alton) in the southern Surat Basin, East Queensland and to exit the PL 214 Utopia Joint Venture (PL214) which is operated by one of those Bridgeport subsidiaries.
Following the completion of the agreement, Bounty will be operator and hold 100 percent interest of the 2P proven oil reserves, the production facilities and the surrounding exploration acreage in Petroleum Lease 2 (Alton Oilfield and Alton Block).
In addition, the company will own 81.75 percent stake in PL2A and PL2B (Kooroon Block) located within Petroleum Lease 2.
New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals (NZP&M) granted New Zealand Energy Corp.'s (NZEC) applications to extend the term for the Tariki (PML 38138), Waihapa (PML 38140) and Ngaere (PML 38141) licenses in the country.
Regulator NZP&M extended the licenses for Waihapa and Ngaere for a period of 20 years (from June 19), while that for the Tariki PML has been extended for a period of 5 years from July 20.
Under the extension, the work programs for the Waihapa and Ngaere PMLs include reservoir modelling, field development work and a comprehensive evaluation of prospectivity together with a requirement to restore the Waihapa 1B well in the Waihap PML to production and implement an enhanced oil recovery project in the Ngaere PML.
The agreed work program for the Tariki PML requires the permit owners to complete dynamic reservoir modelling, determine the economic viability of the permit resource and either commit to implementation of the preferred development project or surrender the permit.
NZEC operates each PML with a 50 percent interest, while L&M Energy Ltd. hold the remaining 50 percent.
希腊航运公司Diana Shipping已经成功与Transgrain Shipping签订一项有效期达10到13个月的租约，Diana Shipping将向Transgrain Shipping租赁Thetis号巴拿马型散货船（2004年制造）。
这项租约将于2016年6月16日开始生效，日收费5,150美元。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
Diana表示：按照最短租期（10个月）计算，这项新租约将盈利155万美元。
来自/Splash 247 6月12日消息 编译/赵宁
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Greek drybulk outfit Diana Shipping has fixed 2004-built panamax bulker Thetisto Transgrain Shipping for a period of ten to thirteen months.
The time charter contract for the 73,583 dwt vessel commences June 16, at a rate of $5,150 per day less a 5% commission paid to third parties. The rate is $200 per day lower than that being paid for Diana’s 2005-built panamax Clio, which Transgrain extended the charter for in April.
Diana said that the new contact for Thetis will generate around $1.55m of gross revenue based on the minimum charter period.
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日本船商Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK)公司决定购买EMAS Chiyoda Subsea公司25%的股份，EMAS Chiyoda Subsea是一家由新加坡公司Ezra Holdings和日本公司Chiyoda Corporation共同拥有的海洋服务公司。从此，Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha迈出了转向海洋服务领域的重要一步。
Ezra Holdings表示将以3600万美元的价格向NYK出售10%的股份，而Chiyoda则会向NYK出售15%的股份。这项交易已经得到Ezra股东的批准，将于2016年第3季度完成。
Ezra表示：NYK此次的股权收购行为将会促进海洋服务业务的发展。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
来自/Splash 247 6月12日消息 编译/赵宁
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Japanese shipowner Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) has made a stunning move into the offshore sector after agreeing to purchase a 25% stake in EMAS Chiyoda Subsea, the offshore operator owned by Singapore’s Ezra Holdings and Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation.
In a release on the Singapore Exchange, Ezra Holdings said that it will receive $36m from NYK for a 10% stake, while Chiyoda is selling a 15% stake.
Ezra has committed the $36m in proceeds back to the jv in the form of a shareholder loan for working capital, while Chiyoda will inject $11.67m and NYK a further $8.33m via shareholder’s loans.
Tadaaki Naito, president, president corporate officer of NYK, commented: “I am delighted that we can offer another range of service in offshore segment by joining into EMAS Chiyoda Subsea. With reliable partners, I believe this opportunity would create strong alliance and I am excited that we would be able to contribute to worldwide offshore development, including that in our home country.”
Ezra said the addition of NYK will ensure accelerated growth of the subsea services business and bring expertise in vessel operations and asset management.
Last month Splash revealed that EMAS Chiyoda Subsea was looking to cold stack $150m pipelay vessel Lewek Centurion, with the vessel laying idle for some time in Batam, Indonesia.
The deal is subject to the approval of Ezra shareholders and is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2016.
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TEHRAN 6月11日消息 --- 伊朗已成功完成波斯湾海域South Pars巨型气田第20和21开发阶段的钻井作业。
以上两个开发阶段的钻井作业已经持续3年，共钻成15口井，这15口井已为天然气勘探做好准备。
South Pars气田第20和第21开发阶段的主要生产目标包括：每日生产5000万立方米家用天然气，每年向石油化工厂供应100万吨乙烷，每年出口105万吨优质LNG，以及每天生产75,000桶凝析油。
South Pars气田共有29个开发阶段，天然气储量达40万亿立方米，占世界天然气总储量的21%。此外，还储有500亿桶凝析油。该气田面积达9,700平方千米，其中伊朗部分面积为3,700平方千米。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
来自/Natural Gas Europe 6月11日消息 编译/赵宁
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TEHRAN, June 11 (Shana) – Iran has finished drilling operations at phases 20 and 21 of the massive South Pars gas field in Persian Gulf waters.
Drilling operations in the phases have ended after three years and drilling 92,000 meters of 15 wells at the offshore phases.
The 15 wells are ready for gas recovery and 7 others are being completed.
Acceding to the public relations office of Oil Industries Engineering & Construction (OIEC), the remaining wells are undergoing preformation and acidizing operations before they are ready for production by the end of summer.
Managing Director of OIEC Behzad Mohammad had previously predicted that the two phases will come on-stream by the end of the current Iranian calendar year to March 19.
Phases 20 and 21 of South Pars gas filed are being developed for production of 50mcm /d of processed natural gas for domestic consumption, a million tons a year of ethane for use by petrochemical plants, 1.05 million tons a year of high-quality liquefied gas for exports and 75,000 barrels a day of condensate.
South Pars, divided into 29 development phases, holds 40 tcm of natural gas, or 21% of world’s total gas reserves, and 50 billion barrels of condensate.
South Pars covers an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 square kilometers of which are in Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The remaining 6,000 square kilometers are situated in Qatar’s territorial waters.
The gas field is estimated to contain a significant amount of natural gas, accounting for about eight percent of the world’s reserves, and approximately 18 billion barrels of condensate.
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The Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) announced Friday it’s investing $200 million in Calgary-based hydraulic fracking company Calfrac Well Services Ltd.
AIMCo, which handles $90-billion worth of assets for 31 provincial pension, endowment and government funds, is providing the firm with a $200-million term loan with a nine-per-cent annual interest rate, according to a news release.
In conjunction with the loan, AIMCo has been issued 6.9 million warrants to buy Calfrac common shares for $4.14 each by June 2019.
The shares closed Friday at $3.11, up 38 per cent in the last five days.
Calfrac will use the loan for working capital and general corporate purposes, including repaying all of its current bank debt and the borrowings of Calfrac Well Services (Argentina) S.A.
The company provides specialized oilfield services to exploration and production companies to increase production of hydrocarbons from wells drilled in western Canada, the United States, Russia, Argentina and Mexico.
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来自/Gulf News Energy 6月12日消息 编译/张弘引石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Calgary: Teine Energy Ltd, the energy company backed by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, has agreed to buy oil-producing properties from Penn West Petroleum Ltd for C$975 million ($763 million) in cash.
The deal involves all of Penn West’s properties in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, including its Dodsland Viking light-oil assets in the east and the medium and heavy crude assets in the west, Calgary-based Penn West said in a statement late on Friday. The agreement helps highly-leveraged Penn West stay in compliance with debt covenants it had forecast potentially breaching in the second quarter, which ends June 30. Penn West now expects to remain within those covenants through 2016, it said in Friday’s statement.
The sale of the Saskatchewan assets is expected to close in the second quarter, according to the statement. Penn West has also agreed to sell Alberta properties for proceeds of about C$140 million, the company said, without identifying any buyers. Penn West has agreed to sell assets fetching a total of C$1.3 billion in cash in 2016, the company said.
Penn West’s share price has fallen 90 per cent since US crude’s price peak in mid-2014, to close at C$1.16 in Toronto on Friday. The company had total debt of C$1.86 billion at the end of the first quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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