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September 05, 2024
After constricting AI to mostly back-office tasks such as evaluating seismic surveys, while keeping drilling and hydraulic fracturing firmly in human hands, U.S. operators are increasingly adopting the emerging technology to boost more mainstream work.
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September 04, 2024
The work was done within schedule and budget. The 2024 KTL-1 turnaround achieved a 23% improvement in execution efficiency compared to the previous turnaround at KTL-1 in 2019. The turnaround activities used industry-leading execution methodologies aimed at maintaining reliable base business performance.
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August 30, 2024
Harris took pains to point out her support for the Inflation Reduction Act, which included provisions meant to encourage more oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The law made the government’s award of wind and solar rights on federal lands contingent on the sale of more oil and gas leases.
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August 29, 2024
EOG, Conocophillips, Occidental and Devon Energy filled in the remaining four of the top five drilling customer positions. Patterson-UTI, Nabors, Ensign Energy Services and Precision Drilling took places 2-5 as the top U.S. land drillers.
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August 29, 2024
Drillers have extended the horizontal length of their wells since the pandemic to three miles or more to squeeze more output from their sites. The longer so-called laterals are often credited with helping explorers deliver surprise production growth of 1 MMbpd last year.
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August 27, 2024
The package includes older wells in the Permian’s Central basin that produce small but stable amounts of oil, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be named because sale negotiations are private.
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August 26, 2024
After pumping less crude in the years leading up to the pandemic than top counties in neighboring Texas, New Mexico’s Lea County has been rapidly gaining ground. Production there has expanded faster than in any other U.S. county, last year becoming the first to ever produce more than 1 MMbpd, according to energy research firm Enverus.
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August 23, 2024
Gran Tierra Energy has announced a $225 million acquisition of i3 Energy plc through a cash and share deal. The company aims to use this acquisition to enhance shareholder value, optimize capital allocation, and improve trading liquidity.
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August 23, 2024
Haitian-American oil tycoon Emmanuel Fritz Paret, CEO of Paret Mining LLC, has acquired a 10,000-acre oil reserve in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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August 23, 2024
This move is part of bp’s broader strategy to cut emissions and enhance efficiency through advanced infrastructure, including the development of centralized processing facilities and innovative drilling technologies.
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August 22, 2024
Shale producers are pumping more oil per dollar invested in oil fields by drilling wells with fewer rigs and using better fracing techniques, BloombergNEF said in a report published Thursday. The U.S. will increase production 4.5% to a record 13.9 MMbpd next year.
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August 21, 2024
Ovintiv’s operations in the Central basin of Utah involves drilling in about 2,600 feet of oil saturated reservoir rock, according to its website. The asset could attract interest from private equity-backed energy groups, the people said.
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August 20, 2024
The properties up for sale produce over 22,000 boed, with oil making up about 60% of this production. The drilling locations include properties on the Northwest Shelf, the Northern Shelf, and the Central Basin Platform in New Mexico and Texas.
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August 20, 2024
Williston operators have executed about 15% more refracs than those in the Eagle Ford. While results vary, EIR finds that average refracs in the Williston produce about 50% of new drill estimated ultimate recovery (EUR), outperforming the Eagle Ford’s roughly 25%.
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August 16, 2024
Autry Stephens, the petroleum engineer raised on a Texas peanut and watermelon farm who became the richest U.S. oilman, has died. He was 86.
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August 16, 2024
MOL Pakistan has announced three new gas discoveries in the TAL Block through the Razgir-1 exploratory well.
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August 16, 2024
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has imposed more than $2 million in fines on operators and businesses for violations within the state's oil and gas industry.
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August 15, 2024
The slowdown in production outside OPEC+, particularly in the U.S., is expected to narrow the global oil market surplus in 2025, though production will still outpace demand.
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August 15, 2024
The American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new poll conducted by Morning Consult that reveals strong support among swing state voters for policies that promote domestic oil and natural gas production, while limiting reliance on foreign energy sources.
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August 14, 2024
India’s Swan Energy Ltd. plans to sell its stake in a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to Turkey’s state-run Botas for $399 million.
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August 14, 2024
The Department of the Interior has issued final guidance for states on applying for the first $775 million in grant funding available this year to address orphaned oil and gas wells under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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