North America
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April 15, 2025
Vertice Oil Tools has acquired Greenwell Engineering in a strategic move that expands Vertice’s completions portfolio, enhances its ability to support wireline service providers and E&P companies, and broadens its presence across unconventional oil and gas markets.
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April 14, 2025
bp today announced an oil discovery at the Far South prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico. This discovery underscores bp's renewed focus on upstream exploration, part of its strategy reset announced in February 2025. Chevron co-owns the Far South prospect with 42.5% interest.
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April 11, 2025
Energy NL, Canada's energy industry association, has issued a statement with details on its Budget 2025. CEO Charlene Johnson announced $90 million to be allocated over three years for offshore oil and gas exploration.
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April 11, 2025
Energy Transfer and MidOcean Energy have entered an agreement to jointly develop the Lake Charles LNG project in Louisiana. Under terms of the agreement, MidOcean would fund 30% of the construction costs and be entitled to receive 30% of the LNG production (approximately 5 MMtpa).
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April 11, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) proudly recognized Scott Sheffield, former CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, as a recipient of the 2025 Platinum Award, the Council’s highest honor. The award was presented during the EWTC Annual Meeting in Frisco, Texas, on April 10, 2025.
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April 10, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council elected a slate of new officers and industry leaders during their 2025 Annual Meeting, held in Frisco, Texas. These individuals bring a wealth of experience and expertise to their roles.
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April 10, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to make Canada the world’s “leading energy superpower” through a plan that includes establishing a single office that would decide on major projects within two years.
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April 10, 2025
The equity investment into Kimmeridge's SoTex HoldCo marks Mubadala Energy's U.S. market entry and ambitious expansion strategy. Kimmeridge's highly scalable upstream gas and LNG business comprises currently producing upstream gas assets and a pre-FID LNG project.
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April 09, 2025
APTIM and joint venture partner BWX Technologies, Inc. have been awarded a $1.4 billion contract by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to manage and operate the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), as well as its associated facilities and systems in Louisiana and Texas.
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April 09, 2025
The plunge in oil prices over the past week was more severe than the market’s dynamics justify, and the drop may be short-lived, according to Canadian energy executives gathered in Toronto. “What we learned from Covid is that energy demand is pretty resilient,” said one executive.
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April 08, 2025
Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, today announced the start of production at Dover, the second subsea tieback connecting new wells to the existing infrastructure of the Shell-operated Appomattox production hub in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico.
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April 08, 2025
The sudden plunge in oil prices begs the question, what if WTI prices go as low as $50 per barrel? At that level, U.S. Lower 48 onshore crude oil production could decline by more than 1 million bpd over 12 months, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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April 07, 2025
A top executive at Diamondback Energy Inc. called on President Donald Trump’s administration to explain how the global trade war will help shale producers, a rare instance of public pushback from a U.S. oil boss.
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March 2025
Turning flare gas into revenue makes sense. But manually evaluating the many “Gas to Value” (G2V) alternatives is complex and time-consuming. A model that combines rigorous techno-economic analysis with thermodynamic simulation can speed up the search for a site’s optimum G2V solution. With examples from two North American basins.
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April 04, 2025
Lufkin Industries, a global leader in surface production equipment and automation solutions, has announced the sale of its North America Downhole (NAM Downhole) business to Q2 Artificial Lift Services, a leading provider of downhole reciprocating pumps.
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April 04, 2025
Subsea7 has been awarded a sizeable contract by Shell Offshore for the Sparta deepwater development. The project involves the transportation and installation of a floating production system (FPS) off the coast of Louisiana at water depths of up to 1,635 meters.
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April 02, 2025
INEOS Energy has completed its acquisition of the U.S. Gulf business held by CNOOC's U.S. subsidiary. The deal increases INEOS' production globally to over 90,000 boed and marks the third major investment by INEOS Energy in the U.S. in the past three years.
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March 31, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council has announced Jerry Jones, Owner, President and General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys and majority shareholder of Comstock Resources, as a 2025 Platinum Award recipient. The Platinum Award is the Council’s highest honor, recognizing a lifetime of achievement, leadership, and impact in the oil and gas industry.
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March 28, 2025
Bayswater Exploration and Production (Bayswater), a Denver-based oil and natural gas development company closed the sale of certain Denver Julesburg (DJ) Basin assets to Prairie Operating Co. in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $603 million.
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March 28, 2025
Citing the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) latest report shows an increase in upstream employment in Texas in the month of February.
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March 28, 2025
A federal district judge on Thursday ruled against a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, faulting the government with failing to sufficiently analyze its possible effects on the climate and endangered whales.
