| | | | | | Ecopetrol SA discovered gas in the Orca Norte-1 deepwater well in the Colombian Caribbean. |
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| Woodside Energy Group Ltd. has let a subsea wellhead systems contract to Dril-Quip Inc. for the Trion development offshore Mexico. |
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| bpTT spudded its first well on Cypre field offshore Trinidad. |
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| Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria (Deepwater) Ltd. has let a contract to Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc., Houston, for well intervention services offshore Nigeria. |
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| | | | Shell Offshore Inc. started production at Rydberg, a subsea tie-back to the Appomattox production hub in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| ExxonMobil Corp. has renewed Nigerian deepwater oil mining leases 133 and 138, for the Erha and Usan blocks, respectively. The 20-year renewals included extensions of PSC for the blocks with partner NNPC. |
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| | Capex SA has completed first phase drilling a four-well pad in Vaca Muerta shale in the Agua del Cajón block in Argentina. |
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| | Vista Energy S.A.B. de C.V., the second-largest unconventional oil operator in Argentina, plans to invest $900 million dollars to connect 46 new wells in Vaca Muerta and increase its total production to 70,000 boe/d. |
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| | | Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, plans to pay about $7.4 billion for Southwestern Energy Co. to create a natural gas producer with daily production slightly larger than that of Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. The proposed all-stock combination of Chesapeake and Southwestern will create an entity with more than 5,000 locations in Haynesville... |
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| | The combined company’s fourth-quarter 2023 production in the Williston basin was about 260,000 boe/d. |
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| Enterprise Products Partners LP, Houston, has increased its stake in certain midstream assets in Texas through deals with Western Midstream Partners LP. |
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| | Vår Energi ASA has let a 2-year contract extension to KCA Deutag to provide for offshore drilling and maintenance services on the Ringhorne platform in the Norwegian North Sea. |
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| | | | Perenco Oil & Gas Gabon (POGG) has spudded an appraisal well in the vicinity of the Hylia South West discovery, offshore Gabon. |
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| Petrobras has let a contract to Baker Hughes for integrated well construction services in Buzios field, offshore Brazil. |
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| Finder Energy Holdings Ltd. has identified prospects in WA-547-P in Northern Carnarvon basin, offshore Western Australia, and is seeking a farmout partner to fund exploration activity to test prospectivity. |
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| Vår Energi ASA increased production from equipment improvements and new drilling at Balder and Ringhorne fields 220 km from Stavanger in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. |
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| | | ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to divest its 15.9% interest in the Shell Offshore Inc.-operated Ursa and Princess oil assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. |
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| | Chesapeake will focus on building up to 1 bcfd of reserve capacity; ‘The market is pretty clearly telling us it doesn’t need our gas today.’ |
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| ExxonMobil has increased oil production in Guyana’s Stabroek block to 640,000 b/d, an increase of about 68%, according to Huzefa Ali, production director of ExxonMobil in Guyana. |
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| Equinor Energy has been granted a drilling permit for appraisal wells 15/3-13 S and A in the Brokk prospect in the North Sea. |
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| Aker BP has been granted a drilling permit for appraisal well 24/6-5 in the North Sea. |
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| | Tethys Oil is preparing to drill Kunooz-1, the first exploration well in the Fahd area of Block 58, onshore Oman. |
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| Oil and Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDCL) made a significant gas-condensate discovery from the Kharo-1 exploration well in the Khewari exploration license area, District Khairpur, Sindh Province, Pakistan. |
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| | 88 Energy Ltd. will flow test the Hickory-1 well in Project Phoenix on the North Slope of Alaska after constructing an ice pad and commissioning All American Oilfield’s Rig 111. |
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