Drilling

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April 19, 2022
Energy Workforce and Technology Council CEO Leslie Beyer said the Biden Administration’s plan to restart limited lease sales on federal lands, while raising royalty fees paid by oil and gas producers, and its decision to restore stricter reviews under NEPA will not significantly increase American energy security or immediately reduce energy costs for the consumer.
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April 19, 2022
Halliburton Co. said North American oil and natural gas drillers will lift spending by 35% this year, an increase from the biggest fracer’s pre-Russian war forecast.
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April 18, 2022
Petro-Victory Energy Corp. secured 19 new oil and gas blocks in the company's core operating area, the Potiguar Basin onshore Brazil, the company announced.
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April 18, 2022
Iraq’s cabinet may reactivate a deal with Halliburton Co. to drill wells in a western gas field in Akkas next month, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar told local media.
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April 15, 2022
Biden’s administration is dramatically curtailing U.S. public land available for new oil and gas development as it seeks to impose more environmental protections and financial limitations on the activity.
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April 13, 2022
Drilling permits for new wells have spiked to unprecedented levels in the Permian Basin, signaling crude oil suppliers in America are finally responding to higher prices.
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April 12, 2022
Some of the worst fire conditions in a decade are going to sweep across Texas and the southern Great Plains, threatening key shale-oil fields, slaughterhouses and farms.
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April 12, 2022
Halliburton Company today introduced StrataStar™, a deep azimuthal resistivity service that provides multilayer visualization to maximize well contact with the reservoir and improve real-time reserves evaluation.
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April 06, 2022
Executives at some of the world’s biggest oil companies will tell a U.S. congressional hearing on high gasoline prices that they need the government’s help in securing more drilling permits to help lower consumers’ costs.
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April 05, 2022
To drill more wells, they need steel tubes to line the inside of the holes and get the crude out. Those pipes have become more expensive and scarce.
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April 01, 2022
Canada’s natural gas producers will face the greatest burden among energy companies under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new emissions-reduction plan, just as the industry faces renewed pressure to increase output.
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April 01, 2022
Australia's Santos Ltd. is locked in a dispute with ConocoPhillips over road access in Alaska, potentially holding up a $3 billion oil project, according to letters from both companies to the U.S. state's government.
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March 31, 2022
There’s been a rush of investors to fuel Bitcoin mines with gas that would otherwise be burned off or vented into the atmosphere in oil-producing fields.
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March 28, 2022
Canada’s oil sands would play the biggest role in the government’s pledge to boost crude and natural gas exports by 300,000 barrels a day this year to compensate for Russian supplies.
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March 28, 2022
Despite having shale-gas deposits to rival those in Appalachia, Argentina's domestic gas production sector has suffered from years of underinvestment that has left it unable to meet domestic demand, never mind the needs of the export market.
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March 25, 2022
KCA Deutag announced that it sold its land drilling business in Nigeria, including five drilling rigs, for $18 million to Nigeria-based Geoplex Drillteq Limited.
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March 18, 2022
The Biden administration said it would resume plans for oil and gas drilling on federal lands after a federal appeals court granted a White House request to allow the administration to use a revamped metric for calculating the potential cost to society of greenhouse gas emissions.
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March 18, 2022
The activist investor that forced a board shakeup at Exxon Mobil Corp. to accelerate a move to clean energy is calling on U.S. shale to produce more.
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March 15, 2022
Demand for rigs is now higher than it’s been in years, and the Canadian summer drilling season is likely to start earlier than usual.
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March 15, 2022
Schlumberger announced a major contract award by Saudi Aramco for integrated drilling and well construction services in a gas drilling project.
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March 14, 2022
Schlumberger announced it has been awarded an extensive contract for drilling, completions and production services by TotalEnergies for its Tilenga onshore oil development in Uganda.
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