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Financial analytics company S&P Global and information provider IHS Markit announced they have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that values IHS Markit at $44 billion.

The London-based company is seeking to restructure more than $3 billion in debt as it struggles to find work for its offshore fleet.

ExxonMobil has trimmed its future spending by more than 30% and said it will seek to divest from gas assets in the US, Canada, and Argentina.

Charles Bare, 1979 SPE President and an Honorary Member of the Society, died 25 October. He was 88.

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Achieving and sustaining performance drilling’s intended benefits—improved drilling efficiency with minimal downhole tool failures and the associated reductions in project cycle time and operational costs—requires new protocols in drilling-system analysis.

A Canadian company reports that it has drilled and completed a historic horizontal well in Saskatchewan.

Startup Cerebras benchmarked its pint-sized computer against 16,000 Xeon cores in the Department of Energy's Joule supercomputer on a problem of computational fluid dynamics.

Oil and gas producers in Europe commit to reporting emissions, but major US firms do not.

Despite having strong wind resources and promising record-breaking capacity factors, most sites globally are unsuitable for bottom-fixed units. Floating wind will provide part of the solution for countries seeking to decarbonize their electricity.