
Wood Mackenzie: oil and gas companies must brace for tough 2026
Wood Mackenzie discloses oil and gas companies need to brace for tough 2026 as capital budgets fall and low-carbon spending faces further cuts.
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Wood Mackenzie discloses oil and gas companies need to brace for tough 2026 as capital budgets fall and low-carbon spending faces further cuts.

Jordan Flaniken, Managing Director of Adsorbents, Merichem Technologies, discusses the opportunity for oil and gas production companies to address contaminant removal with ‘easy button’ solutions.

Rystad Energy’s oil market update 23 September 2025.

Viking Completion Technology completes milestone delivery to African energy project.

Forum Energy Technologies introduces ICE Unity.

Sercel supplied 75 000 digital sensors and 24 super-heavy vibrator trucks to support major seismic survey operations in North Africa.

Pantheon Resources plc, the oil and gas company developing the Kodiak and Ahpun projects near pipeline and transportation infrastructure on Alaska's North Slope, announces the timing of the hydraulic fracture stimulation and associated well testing for the Dubhe-1 well.

TAQA UK has awarded a major contract for the decommissioning of its Brae Alpha platform topsides in the Central North Sea.

Emerson, an industrial technology leader delivering advanced automation solutions, has announced AspenTech Subsurface Intelligence™ (ASI), an open, cloud-native agentic environment that incorporates AI to transform the user experience and accelerate subsurface-related decision-making while leveraging existing investments in legacy applications.

TotalEnergies has signed four Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) for the LB-6, LB-11, LB-17 and LB-29 Exploration blocks offshore Liberia, which were awarded following the 2024 Direct Negotiation Licensing Round organized by the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Agency.

This latest phase spans 151 OCS blocks and expands ultra-long offset low-frequency OBN coverage of the Paleogene trend to provide improved seismic data and subsurface imaging over this geologically complex area.
IMI delivers ‘largest production’ choke valves to landmark North Sea unmanned production platform.