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Formerly titled E&P Notes, this monthly snapshot of global E&P activity highlights ongoing developments worldwide.

The country’s foreign investment bid comes as Sonatrach launches its largest capital expenditure outlay—$60 billion to be spent from 2026 to 2030.

As AI drives record heat loads in data centers, immersion liquid cooling is gaining momentum, and energy companies are lining up to support it.

The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.

Technology and partnerships remain important, while phased approaches may supplant lengthy appraisal programs, experts said during CERAWeek.

The transaction creates a new company, NEO NEXT+, which is now the largest independent producer on the UK Continental Shelf.

TotalEnergies will instead invest in the Rio Grande LNG plant, upstream conventional oil development in the US Gulf of Mexico, and shale-gas production.

This work demonstrates that a carefully engineered wireline perforation strategy can address the challenges of long-interval high-pressure/high-temperature completions with large intrareservoir-pressure differentials safely and effectively.

Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.

By opening new fields to exploration and development, Libya is poised to boost gas production to supply exports in meaningful volumes to Europe by early 2030.