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January 22, 2025
Envana has been awarded a grant totaling $5.2 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance oil and gas methane monitoring and mitigation technologies. The funding is part of the DOE’s Methane Emissions Reduction Program.
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January 22, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute (API) today announced the launch of the new API Repair and Remanufacture Program. Organizations can become licensed under this program and apply the API Repair and Remanufacture mark to their equipment.
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January 21, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) and American Petroleum Institute (API) have both issued statements applauding President Trump's swift and decisive action on Day 1 to unleash American energy.
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January 21, 2025
With the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump on January 20, the future of American involvement in Africa’s energy sector is set for a significant shift. President Trump’s approach to energy has consistently focused on strengthening American interests, particularly by prioritizing domestic energy production.
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January 21, 2025
MAGA Republican leaders, the so-called ‘climate deniers’—and its leader (Trump) label climate change a “hoax.” What does this mean for climate policy and the energy transition in the U.S.? And will the change in U.S. policy affect European policy as well?
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January 21, 2025
(Bloomberg) – U.S. President Donald Trump revoked offshore oil and gas leasing bans that effectively blocked drilling in most U.S. coastal waters as he made sweeping moves his first hours in office to unleash American energy development.
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January 17, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute today joined with the states of Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi in filing a challenge to the Biden administration’s ban on new oil and natural gas leasing across millions of acres of federal waters.
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January 17, 2025
TXO Partners, a limited partnership focused on the acquisition and development of conventional oil and natural gas in the U.S., has identified an overall natural gas resource potential of 3 TCFE across 58,500 acres in the Mancos shale region of the San Juan basin.
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January 17, 2025
(Bloomberg) – The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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January 15, 2025
Talos Energy Inc. (Talos) has announced that the Katmai West #2 well located in the Ewing Bank area of the U.S Gulf of Mexico successfully encountered commercial quantities of oil and natural gas.
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January 14, 2025
“American energy was on the ballot, and American energy won,” said API executives on a media call prior to Tuesday’s 2025 State of American Energy event. API leaders shared insights into the industry and where they expect it to head under 2025’s incoming Trump administration.
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January 14, 2025
Affiliates of Langford Energy Partners (LEP) announced that they have closed on the acquisition of Midland basin assets from Murchison Oil and Gas, LLC. The acquisition includes approx. 8,000 net acres with net production of approx. 7,200 boed.
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January 12, 2025
LLOG Exploration Company, a privately-owned exploration and production company focused on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, has announced the achievement of several significant milestones in the construction of the Salamanca Floating Production Unit (FPU).
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January 09, 2025
Energy NL has made a submission to the Government of Canada Gazette 1 consultation process, requesting that the federal government abandon its proposed 'Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap Regulations.'
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January 09, 2025
Elected officials and trade groups representing businesses across the supply chain are sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s 11th hour decision to ban new oil and natural gas activity across millions of acres of federal waters.
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January 09, 2025
Shell and Chevron announced the start of oil production from the Whale semisubmersible platform in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Chevron owns 40% working interest in Whale, with Shell owning 60% interest as operator. Estimated peak production from the Whale development is 100,000 gross boed.
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January 08, 2025
Enverus has released its list of the most prolific 50 public oil and gas operators in the U.S. based on gross operated production last year. "Oilpatch mergers reshape rankings, but the Permian remains king," Enverus reported.
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January 08, 2025
Pioneer Energy has been granted four awards by the U.S. DOE totaling $27 million. Pioneer will use the funds to advance its Emission Control Treater™ (ECT), a near-zero emissions well pad production technology that can increase crude yield by 5-10%.
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January 08, 2025
(Bloomberg) – Oil companies declined to bid in a U.S. government auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as industry interest wanes in a region that’s rich with crude but difficult to develop.
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January 07, 2025
Bryan L. Clark has joined Bracewell LLC's Dallas office as a partner in both the firm’s oil and gas and energy transition practice groups. Clark previously served for over a decade as the primary midstream counsel at Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.
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January 07, 2025
Laredo Oil, Inc., an oil E&P company with over 30,000 net acres of mineral rights in the West Fork field in Montana, today announced that it has initiated preparations to drill the first of three planned exploratory wells in the field.
