U.S. Onshore

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April 25, 2025
APA Corporation and its partners Lagniappe Alaska, LLC, an Armstrong company, and Oil Search (Alaska), LLC, a subsidiary of Santos Limited, have completed successful flow testing of the Sockeye-2 exploratory well in Alaska's North Slope.
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April 24, 2025
Texas shale-oil company Matador Resources Co. plans to drop one of its nine drilling rigs by the middle of the year in response to plunging crude prices. Matador is the first significant shale company to announce it’s cutting back on drilling since crude futures began nosediving earlier this month.
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April 23, 2025
Last Mile Production, LLC, an independent oil and gas operator in West Texas, has reported transformative results following the deployment of Enovate AI’s 3-Clicks Digital Strategy in collaboration with B4ECarbon™.
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April 23, 2025
ExxonMobil has announced an agreement with Calpine Corporation, the nation’s largest producer of electricity from natural gas, to transport and permanently store up to 2 Mmtpa of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center near Houston.
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April 22, 2025
Crescent Energy has closed the sale of its non-operated Permian basin assets to a private buyer for $83 million in cash, the company announced Tuesday. The West Texas assets had projected full-year 2025 production of approximately 3 Mboe/d (~35% oil).
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April 18, 2025
U.S. marketed natural gas production remained relatively flat in 2024, growing by less than 0.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) compared with 2023 to average 113 Bcf/d, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) latest report.
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April 18, 2025
Kodiak Gas Services has started construction on a new training facility and an operations base in West Texas, strengthening its dedication to operational excellence and employee development in the Permian basin.
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April 17, 2025
U.S. crude oil production grew by 270,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2024 to average 13.2 million bpd, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Almost all the production growth came from the Permian region.
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April 16, 2025
Enverus Intelligence® Research (EIR) is releasing a series of reports focused on its Haynesville growth forecast including natural gas production, operational efficiencies and Henry Hub basis fluctuations amid high price volatility.
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April 15, 2025
Vertice Oil Tools has acquired Greenwell Engineering in a strategic move that expands Vertice’s completions portfolio, enhances its ability to support wireline service providers and E&P companies, and broadens its presence across unconventional oil and gas markets. 
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April 15, 2025
U.S. Energy Development Corporation (USEDC), a Fort Worth-based exploration and production company, has acquired ~20,000 net acres in the Permian basin. The position includes a substantial proved producing component and multi-year drilling inventory.
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April 10, 2025
The equity investment into Kimmeridge's SoTex HoldCo marks Mubadala Energy's U.S. market entry and ambitious expansion strategy. Kimmeridge's highly scalable upstream gas and LNG business comprises currently producing upstream gas assets and a pre-FID LNG project.
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April 10, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) proudly recognized Jerry Jones, Owner, President, and General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys and majority shareholder of Comstock Resources as a recipient of the 2025 Platinum Award, the Council’s highest honor.
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April 09, 2025
APTIM and joint venture partner BWX Technologies, Inc. have been awarded a $1.4 billion contract by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to manage and operate the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), as well as its associated facilities and systems in Louisiana and Texas.
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April 09, 2025
The market rout sparked by President Donald Trump’s trade war is touching almost every part of the economy. But there are probably few industries feeling more aggrieved right now than U.S. shale oil.
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April 08, 2025
The sudden plunge in oil prices begs the question, what if WTI prices go as low as $50 per barrel? At that level, U.S. Lower 48 onshore crude oil production could decline by more than 1 million bpd over 12 months, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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April 07, 2025
A top executive at Diamondback Energy Inc. called on President Donald Trump’s administration to explain how the global trade war will help shale producers, a rare instance of public pushback from a U.S. oil boss. 
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April 04, 2025
The Railroad Commission of Texas this week released preliminary data on statewide oil and gas production for the month of January 2025. The figures for this month reflect output from 158,555 oil wells and 83,176 gas wells.
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March 2025
In December 2024, CNX Resources Corp. acquired Apex Energy for $505 million to expand their Marcellus and Utica shales foothold. However, private producers in the U.S. shale sector, in general, have been divesting assets at a fast clip, with 2024 setting a record at $40.7 billion in divestitures and acquisitions.   
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April 04, 2025
The Railroad Commission of Texas on Friday released its figures for March drilling in the state, showing a noticeable gain over the previous month’s number. The overall figure also tied the level achieved in January.
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April 03, 2025
TIPRO has published a new report highlighting the continued success of oil and natural gas producers in the U.S., Permian basin and Texas in maintaining low emissions despite record oil and gas production levels. The report is part of TIPRO's "Texans for Natural Gas" campaign.
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