U.S. Onshore

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December 22, 2023
The company’s four-part project strategy is evolving to accelerate the significant commercial opportunity offered by Project III, focused on the multi-Tcf undeveloped gas resource within the Lower Eocene and Upper Cretaceous reservoirs of Blocks XIB and XIF.
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December 19, 2023
Private oil and natural gas operators are projected to cut their budgets by 4% to an average of $34.4 billion in 2024, according to the 39th annual global spending survey from Barclays PLC.
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December 18, 2023
Avi Mirman, Executive Chairman of the Board of Fury commented, “With the benefit of a newly revived balance sheet, we believe we can leverage our deep knowledge of the basin and combined operational excellence to fully unlock the asset's potential.”
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December 18, 2023
Operators are squeezing crude out of new wells more efficiently because of innovations in everything from electric-pump technology to new strategies for deploying workers while fracking wells to minimize downtime.
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December 16, 2023
Tokyo Gas Co. said its subsidiary Tokyo Gas America Ltd. will purchase Rockcliff Energy II LLC for about $2.7 billion in a move to expand its U.S. shale gas operations.
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December 15, 2023
Permian Basin operator Callon Petroleum Co. is considering strategic options amid takeover interest from rival oil and gas players, people familiar with the matter said, as dealmaking accelerates in the U.S. energy industry.
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December 12, 2023
Future development is underpinned by some of North America’s top operators, with the combined ExxonMobil and Pioneer Natural Resources expected to move into Freehold’s top five payors and represent greater than 25% of future gross locations within the company’s U.S inventory. Additional payors include other large well capitalized producers such as Marathon Oil, Endeavor Energy Resources LP and Diamondback Energy.
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December 12, 2023
Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s $10.8 billion takeover of CrownRock LP equates to more $50,000 per acre for rights to drill some of the richest oil deposits in the hemisphere, according to data-analysis and research firm Enverus Inc.
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December 11, 2023
Occidental Petroleum Corp. has agreed to acquire Texas shale driller CrownRock LP in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $12.0 billion, including the assumption of $1.2 billion in debt, as consolidation heats up in North America’s most-prolific oil basin.
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December 08, 2023
Endeavor Energy, the largest closely-held oil and gas company in the Permian basin, is exploring a sale that could value it between $25 billion and $30 billion, according to Reuters.
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December 07, 2023
The total includes 588 to drill new oil or gas wells, 5 to re-enter plugged wellbores and 37 for re-completions of existing wellbores.
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December 07, 2023
Chevron Corp. followed competitor Exxon Mobil Corp. in raising planned capital spending as the biggest U.S. oil operators seek to increase long-term crude production.
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December 06, 2023
Exxon also plans to spend $23 billion to $25 billion on capital projects next year as it expands its footprint in the Permian basin, North America’s most-prolific oil field, and pursues untapped reserves in overseas regions such as Guyana.
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December 05, 2023
This transaction forms a comprehensive cementing business to better serve Permian oil and gas operators and is complementary to ProPetro’s industry-leading hydraulic fracturing and wireline completions businesses.
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December 01, 2023
Occidental’s corporate jet movements recall a frenzied few months in 2019 when the company successfully outbid Chevron Corp. to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for $55 billion.
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November 30, 2023
NNE became the first producer in the United States to certify an asset to EO's independent voluntary standard for high-ESG performance at the site level in 2021.
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November 30, 2023
If the purchase is successful, it would augment a portfolio Occidental had already expanded with the $38 billion takeover of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in 2019
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November 26, 2023
The combined average expected 2024 production from the properties in the Northern Delaware and Appalachian basins is anticipated to reach roughly 6,500 boed.
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November 24, 2023
Across the U.S., operators added four rigs in the five-day period from Nov. 18 to Nov. 22, according to the Baker Hughes Rotary Rig Count. It was the second week in a row that the total U.S. count increased, with the new total standing at 622.
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November 20, 2023
Kimmeridge Energy Management Co., which is an active U.S. oil and gas investor, said a merger of Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co. would create one of the industry’s most sought-after stocks.
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November 19, 2023
Drillers in the U.S. shale patch are again trying to rebound from slumping activity, this time expanding the oil rig count by the widest margin in nine months.
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