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December 26, 2024
Vermilion Energy Inc. has entered into an arrangement agreement to acquire Westbrick Energy Ltd., a privately held oil and gas company operating in the Deep Basin, for total consideration of $1.075 billion.
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December 24, 2024
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced that the Shenandoah S2-4H horizontal well was successfully drilled, cased and cemented to a measured depth of 6,452 meters (21,169 feet) in exploration permit 98 in the Beetaloo Sub-basin.
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December 22, 2024
LandBridge has closed its previously announced acquisition of approximately 46,000 largely contiguous surface acres, known as the Wolf Bone Ranch, in the Delaware Basin from a subsidiary of VTX Energy Partners.
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December 16, 2024
Vitesse Energy has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Lucero Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at $222 million. The addition of Lucero’s operations will enable Vitesse to expand its assets across the Bakken shale region.
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December 16, 2024
ExxonMobil has named Tenaris its 2024 Supplier of the Year, recognizing the company’s performance, competitiveness and high standards as consistent with ExxonMobil’s values and expectations.
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December 16, 2024
Northern Oil and Gas announced that it has entered a Joint Development Program with one of Appalachia’s most capital efficient operators. The program covers drilling activities in calendar year 2025.
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December 13, 2024
(Bloomberg) -- Seplat Energy Plc will revive hundreds of idle Nigerian oil wells after completing its purchase of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s onshore oil and gas assets in the West African nation.
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December 10, 2024
e2Companies has announced a strategic collaboration with Nabors that will expand business opportunities for integrated power solutions in the oilfield and broader energy markets.
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December 09, 2024
(Bloomberg) – A shale-drilling frenzy in Argentina has put the country on the verge of leapfrogging regional rival Colombia as a top-three crude producer in South America.
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December 09, 2024
SLB has announced the launch of Neuro™ autonomous geosteering, a tool designed to dynamically responds to subsurface complexities to drill more efficient, higher-performing wells, while reducing the carbon footprint of the drilling operations.
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December 02, 2024
PetroTal Corp. has successfully acquired 100% working interest in Peru Block 131, following its acquisition of CEPSA Peruana. The Los Angeles oil field at Block 131 was discovered by CEPSA Peru in 2013.
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November 2024
InjectRT™, a novel intelligent chemical treatment optimization service from Baker Hughes, uses cutting-edge machine learning techniques to automatically calculate and adjust chemical injection rates in near real-time. This technology minimizes corrosion and scaling, extends the run life of ESPs, and increases production. 
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November 27, 2024
Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. announces that it has reached total depth (TD) of 4,184 meters (13,727 feet) on the Naingopo exploration well on Petroleum Exploration License 073 (PEL 73), onshore Namibia.
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November 26, 2024
Exxon says U.S. oil producers won't significantly boost output under Trump, despite calls to "drill, baby, drill," citing economic priorities over political changes.
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November 25, 2024
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced the spudding of the Shenandoah S2-4H horizontal well (previously referred to as the SS3H well) in exploration permit 98 in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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November 28, 2024
Enverus Intelligence® Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, has released its annual Montney and Duvernay Play Fundamentals that examines recent drilling trends, well inventory counts and associated economics within both Canadian plays.
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November 11, 2024
Interoil Exploration and Production ASA has announced that its Colombian subsidiary, Interoil Colombia Exploration and Production (ICEP), has successfully completed a downhole intervention to the Vikingo well.
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October 2024
(WO) -- We’ve all heard plenty of evidence that U.S. operators continue to strive to drill more footage per well to maximize oil production, and World Oil research indicates that both goals are being achieved. That being said, the performance varies among some key states. 
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October 24, 2024
(WO) — In partnership with a Calgary-based private operator, Epsilon will earn a 25% working interest in undeveloped lands, covering approx. 150,000 gross total acres in the Mannville and Upper Viking formations and targeting horizontal drilling of oil wells
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October 24, 2024
(WO) — Matador Resources Co. plans to produce more oil in 2024 than previously planned, a signal that wells in the western part of the Permian basin — the busiest U.S. oil field — continue to lead national oil growth.
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