Business/economics
Proposed and final notices of sale represent nearly 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico and approximately 1 million acres in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
The US and UK sanctioned Russian independent Lukoil International and state-owned Rosneft in a bid to pressure Russia over Ukraine.
Ranger acquires American Well Services for $90.5 million, adding 39 workover rigs and boosting its fleet by 25%.
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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. -
At least one investment firm thinks there is money to be made in oil and gas operations and is putting up $900 million in equity to fund a startup by two veterans from Felix Energy.
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Of the total $380 billion of projected investments, about 60% ($234 billion) is likely to come from producing assets, which have two main spending channels: facility and well capital expenditures.
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The good news for next year is no one is predicting a repeat of what happened this year. The bad news is the outlooks offers little incentive to find any more oil.
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The cluster is the third largest in Brazil and the fourth largest in the Americas, with potential for further development. It is the third offer the company has made over the past five weeks.
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Gulfport Energy is seeking to eliminate more than $1 billion in debt and to cancel or renegotiate firm transportation contracts that it said drove it to enter bankruptcy protection.
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Bonanza Creek plans to buy HighPoint Resources and said it hopes to maintain an output of 50,000 BOE/D by focusing only on drilled-but-uncompleted wells in the near term.
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With the acquisition of Schlumberger’s rod lift business, Lufkin gains several products, brands, and key proprietary software.
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To go big on capturing CO2, the oilfield service company is acquiring a company that specializes in going small.
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Two contracts awarded for flowlines and wellheads at ADNOC’s Abu Dhabi oil fields are expected to be completed in 5 years. A third contract to develop a bypass system for its Jebel Dhanna and Fujairah terminals is expected to be completed in 30 months.
