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November 21, 2024
Nostra Terra, the international oil & gas exploration and production company with development and production assets in Texas, U.S., has announced a successful fundraise supported by institutional investors, Directors and Management, existing shareholders and new investors.
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November 21, 2024
MOL Group and Kazakhstani national oil company KazMunayGas (KMG) have signed today a cooperation agreement to jointly explore opportunities in the oil, gas and petrochemical sector.
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November 19, 2024
SCS Technologies today announced the adoption of Microsoft RealWear Navigator Z1 for its Factory Acceptable Tests (FATs). SCS can now conduct FATs remotely, increasing productivity while saving time and costs associated with critical oil and gas system and component testing.
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November 19, 2024
LandBridge today announced it has entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire approximately 46,000 largely contiguous surface acres in the Southern Delaware basin. The land is well-positioned at a strategic intersection of oil and natural gas exploration and transportation.
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November 18, 2024
ChampionX has completed a multi-million-dollar transformative project to enhance its chemical manufacturing hub in the Permian basin. The project is a key initiative to meet industry demands while reducing inter-plant transportation, and associated carbon emissions, by approximately 56.7 tons of CO2 per year.
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November 17, 2024
Baker Hughes and SOCAR have announced the signing of a contract for an integrated gas recovery and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal system that will significantly reduce downstream flaring at SOCAR’s Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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November 15, 2024
(Bloomberg) – The head of Liberty Energy Inc., the world’s second-largest fracing services company, has gained prominent endorsements as a potential pick for Donald Trump’s energy secretary.
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November 13, 2024
(Bloomberg) -- Texas oil and natural gas producer Coterra Energy Inc. has reached agreements with two closely-held companies to buy assets in the Permian Basin for $3.95 billion. The deals expand Coterra’s reach on the fast-growing New Mexico side of the top U.S. shale basin. The sale is expected to close in Q1 2025.
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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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November 11, 2024
South Africa’s Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe on Thursday reiterated that the country was committed to developing its oil and gas sector, despite external pressures to transition to a greener economy.
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November 11, 2024
Algeria’s National Agency for the Valorization of Hydrocarbon Resources (ALNAFT) showcased six high-potential onshore licensing opportunities and extensive data packages at African Energy Week: Invest in African Energies.
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November 08, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Oil driller Perenco S.A., owned by the billionaire Perrodo family, will concentrate three quarters of its $2 billion investments next year in a handful of African countries as part of a strategy that includes more gas projects.
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November 08, 2024
Weatherford has been awarded a three-year contract for the provision of rigless services as part of the reactivation of ADNOC onshore strings. Weatherford is expected to deploy multiple intervention solutions, advancing the operational efficiency and reliability of ADNOC’s onshore assets.
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November 07, 2024
Absolute greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian oil sands production registered a nominal increase of less than 1% in 2023 even as total production grew, according to a new analysis by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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November 07, 2024
ADNOC has awarded a contract to BGP worth up to $490 million to expand the scope of the world’s largest combined 3D onshore and offshore seismic survey underway in Abu Dhabi. The contract will focus on identifying additional oil and gas resources in ADNOC’s producing onshore fields.
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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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November 05, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Libya is planning its first tender for energy exploration contracts since 2011’s civil war, as the OPEC member looks to bring back oil majors spooked by years of instability and production shutdowns.
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November 05, 2024
Nighthawk Completion Services has received a majority investment and growth equity commitment from an investor group led by Bruce Ross, including Backcast Partners and certain energy service executives.
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November 05, 2024
ADNOC has awarded an EPC contract to Jereh Oil & Gas Engineering Corporation, worth up to $920 million (AED3.38 billion), to install remote sensing and well-operating equipment at its onshore Bab, Bu Hasa and Southeast fields, extending its AI-powered well digitalization program to cover the fields.
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November 01, 2024
(Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. beat analysts’ profit, output and sales estimates as rising oil production from the Permian Basin helped offset weaker crude prices.
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November 01, 2024
Petrofac has been awarded a multi-million-dollar, two-year contract by Bapco Upstream. Petrofac will support Bapco's production plans to meet gas demands for Bahrain through the delivery of well hook-ups, associated pipelines and tie-ins for several new wells within the Bahrain Field.
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