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September 17, 2024
The Midland, Texas-based company, which recently finalized its acquisition of Endeavor Energy, has also signed a nonbinding letter of intent with nuclear power developer Oklo Inc. to deploy small reactors for some of its future electricity needs.
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September 12, 2024
Diamondback Energy announced that it has closed its merger with Endeavor Energy Resources, the company said on Sept. 10.
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September 11, 2024
The properties are located in the Central Basin Platform, Texas and New Mexico Shelf, and Northwest Shelf, and currently represent estimated net production of 21,000 boed, of which approximately 57% is oil.
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September 09, 2024
The group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia delayed easing supply curbs last week, but now needs to pick which way it wants to go ahead of next year, given outlook for balances was “not great”, said Ben Luckock, global head of oil at Trafigura.
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September 08, 2024
According to the Railroad Commission of Texas, the agency plugged 1,012 orphan wells in Fiscal Year 2024 using state funds. This exceeded the fiscal year’s goal of plugging 1,000 wells with state funds, making it the eighth year in a row in which the RRC has surpassed its legislative target.
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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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August 30, 2024
Marathon Oil will file the vote results of the special stockholder meeting in a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies to expect the transaction to close late in the fourth quarter of 2024.
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August 29, 2024
The deal was “fundamental” to the Colombian oil producer’s future and without the resources it would have provided, its finances will deteriorate, Juan José Echavarría and Luis Alberto Zuleta wrote in their resignation letter, which is dated Aug. 30 but has already been published by local media.
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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
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 20, 2024
QB Energy is acquiring the producing upstream assets, gathering and compression midstream assets and all other assets owned by Caerus in the Piceance basin. Koda is taking a similar set of assets owned by Caerus in the Uinta basin.
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August 15, 2024
Mach Natural Resources LP has announced its second-quarter results, showcasing solid upstream performance while adjusting its 2024 operational plans. The company also divested a portion of its Western Anadarko acreage for $38 million.
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August 13, 2024
Before becoming interim president in 2023, Karr served as the Alliance’s executive vice president for five years. He will continue his work as the petroleum economist for the Alliance. Every month, he releases its Texas Petro Index (TPI), a measure of growth rates and cycles in the Texas upstream oil and gas economy, as well as the Alliance’s Texas Permian Basin Petroleum Index.
