Permian Basin

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February 01, 2022
President Joe Biden, who asked OPEC+ to raise oil production faster to tame runaway energy prices, got a gift on his home turf instead: a blockbuster growth forecast for U.S. shale production from the country’s two biggest oil companies.
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January 28, 2022
Chevron Corp. plans to increase Permian Basin production by about 10% this year from 2021 levels, among the biggest growth forecasts yet from any of America’s top shale producers.
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January 20, 2022
Texas natural gas production dropped for the second time this month because of freezing temperatures settling over the state.
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January 11, 2022
Liberty Lift announced the asset acquisition of Corral Oil Field Services LLC in Andrews, Texas. Corral is a family-owned and -operated artificial lift company specializing in the service, repair, and sale of pumping units and related artificial lift equipment in the Permian basin.
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January 10, 2022
Enterprise Products Partners LP agreed to buy Navitas Midstream Partners LLC from Warburg Pincus LLC for $3.25 billion in cash to add natural gas pipeline and processing assets in the Permian Basin, the world’s most prolific shale basin.
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January 06, 2022
Pioneer Natural Resources Co., the biggest oil producer in the Permian Basin, closed out almost all its hedges for this year, indicating a bullish outlook for crude prices.
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January 26, 2021
As much as 40% of the natural gas that’s expected to be flared in the Permian Basin in 2025 could be avoided at no cost to drillers if regulators abandoned their hands-off approach to the controversial practice, according to a report.
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January 15, 2021
The probe may cast a shadow over Exxon’s efforts to turn a corner after its shares posted their worst annual performance in 40 years in 2020 amid a collapse in oil prices. CEO Darren Woods has been forced to slash spending, and last month the company said it will write down the value of North and South American natural gas fields by as much as $20 billion.
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January 14, 2021
The world’s biggest fracking services provider, Halliburton has deployed the industry’s first grid-powered fracking operation on behalf of Cimarex Energy Co. To date, it’s completed almost 340 stages across multiple wells.
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January 07, 2021
“I really don’t see much increase in the Permian basin or the U.S. shale over the next several years,” said Scott Sheffield, chief executive officer of Pioneer Natural Resources Co.
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December 24, 2019
America’s top shale field is becoming increasingly gassy as drilling slows down, undercutting profits for explorers at a time when investors are demanding better returns.
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December 23, 2019
The slowdown in Permian Basin oil drilling and fracking is spreading to the lenders as austerity takes hold.
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December 18, 2019
Even as growth is set to slow next year in the Permian and elsewhere as drillers respond to investor demands for capital restraint, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said the shale boom has further to run.
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December 18, 2019
While drilling activity in the Permian has been cooling in recent months, the business of supplying water to shale producers in the biggest U.S. oil patch – and disposing of the wastewater – continues to attract private equity.
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December 17, 2019
Methane-emissions intensity in the Permian Basin plunged 64% in the past seven years, even as crude production surged, according to a report by Texans for Natural Gas, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association.
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December 13, 2019
"Base decline is the volume that oil and gas producers need to add from new wells just to stay where they are—it is the speed of the treadmill,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice president of unconventional oil and gas at IHS Markit.
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December 03, 2019
Permian basin frac crews, who are brought in to complete the final stage for creating a new oil well, have dropped 21% so far this year. For all of 2018, frac crews in the West Texas and New Mexico oil fields expanded by 1.3%.
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November 28, 2019
The world’s biggest shale patch is now officially a drag on jobs creation in the Lone Star state.
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November 20, 2019
The bolt-on acquisition is in line with Petrofac's stated strategy to position its Engineering & Production Services for growth by diversifying into new markets and geographies.
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November 11, 2019
Occidental Petroleum plans to sell a four-story office building in the heart of the Permian basin and move employees into a nearby one owned by Anadarko, the oil producer it bought for $37 billion three months ago.
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November 06, 2019
Gravity's acquisition of On Point will create the largest commercial produced water disposal company by injection volumes in the Midland basin.
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