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April 19, 2024
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council released a statement strongly condemning the administration’s move to block oil and gas drilling across over 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve, a vital component of the U.S.’ energy security.
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April 19, 2024
Who Dat East is estimated to contain 17 MMboe of gross unrisked 2C Contingent Resources and 35 MMboe of gross unrisked 2U Prospective Resources. The Who Dat South prospect is estimated to contain 31 MMboe of gross unrisked 2U Prospective Resources.
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April 19, 2024
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Board of Directors has elected Jonathan Landes, President, Subsea of TechnipFMC, as the NOIA Chair for the 2024-2025 term. Joe Leimkuhler, Chief Operating Officer of Beacon Offshore Energy, was elected as the 2024-2025 Vice Chair. Jon and Joe were confirmed in their positions during the NOIA Board of Directors meeting Friday morning.
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April 19, 2024
The Pikka Project in Alaska's North Slope includes a single drill site, an oil processing facility and other infrastructure, with production expected to reach 80,000 bopd.
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April 19, 2024
Under the plan advanced by the Interior Department on Friday, future oil leasing and development is limited across 13 million acres of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve Alaska designated as “special areas.” And leasing is completely blocked across 10.6 million acres of the reserve.
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April 17, 2024
In the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasted that U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will keep leading the U.S. natural gas sector as three LNG export projects soon begin operations and reach full production by the end of 2025.
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April 17, 2024
Investors in ExxonMobil Corp. have the excitement of huge discoveries in Guyana, and TotalEnergies SE and Shell Plc can look to promising deep-water finds in Namibia. But for bp, real value lies in an intensely drilled region where the company has decades of experience — the Gulf of Mexico.
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April 17, 2024
Canada’s Gibson Energy Inc. is betting that swelling oil production in the Permian basin will fuel continued growth in U.S. crude exports, boosting profit from a major Gulf Coast terminal it bought last year for about $1.1 billion.
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April 16, 2024
The reservoirs will be developed from long horizontal production wells which typically produce at multiples of between 6 to 12 times higher than vertical wells. Project Phoenix also benefits from the ability to produce concurrently from multiple reservoirs in a single development scenario.
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April 16, 2024
The announcement is the latest salvo in a proxy fight that began when Kimmeridge proposed the merger to SilverBow through a deal it said would value the combined company at $3.6 billion.
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April 15, 2024
Overall, U.S. shale-oil production is expected to be steady at about 9.86 MMbpd in May, below the record 10 MMbpd seen in December, according to the report. Production from the Permian basin hasn’t completely returned to the December high and is expected to be roughly 6.17 MMbpd next month.
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April 15, 2024
A total of 50 so-called “zombie” fires still smoldering beneath layers of snow are located near oil and gas wells and other production facilities. Those sites yield natural gas equivalent to about 80,000 bpd of oil in Canada’s energy heartland of Alberta alone, in addition to almost 14,000 bpd of crude.
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April 15, 2024
Equinor will sell 100% interest in and operatorship of its onshore asset in the Appalachian basin, located in southeastern Ohio, in exchange for 40% of EQT’s non-operated working interest in the Northern Marcellus shale formation in Pennsylvania.
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April 14, 2024
The project involves the subsea tie back of one production well at Sunspear to the Prince platform, 12 km to the north. Subsea7 will install the flowline and related subsea equipment at 500 m water depths.
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April 12, 2024
The changes wouldn’t affect ConocoPhillips’s 600 MMbbl Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. But oil industry leaders say the plan is more expansive than initially anticipated and threatens to make it nearly impossible to build more important projects in the region.
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April 11, 2024
Diamondback in February agreed to buy fellow Texas oil-and-gas producer Endeavor in a $26 billion cash-and-stock deal to create the largest operator focused on the prolific Permian basin.
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April 10, 2024
In the SEC filing, SilverBow asserts that a combination between SilverBow and Kimmeridge Texas Gas is not in the best interest of all of its shareholders.
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April 10, 2024
Occidental expects first-quarter production from the Gulf of Mexico to be 90,000 boed, about 20% below the mid-point of its guidance.
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April 09, 2024
Oil production hit a record 1.92 Bbbl in 2023, which was 51 MMbbl more than the previous record. Operators produced 12.01 Tcfg in 2023, beating the previous record by more than 13%.
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April 09, 2024
NSAI's best estimates of Kodiak's contingent recoverable resources sum to 1.2 Bbbl of marketable liquids (oil, condensate and natural gas liquids) and 5.4 Tcfg. The new resource represents a 25% increase (963 MMbbl to 1.2 Bbbl) in recoverable marketable liquids compared to NSAI's previous 2023 report.
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April 08, 2024
The acquisition includes approximately 253 gross and 2 net producing wells operated by top operators Aethon, Southwestern, and Chesapeake.
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