The daily business of oil and gas in America — deals, drilling, prices and the policy that moves them.
A gravel pad, a derrick, a rack of pipe and a diesel generator humming at the lease edge. The road in was graded for someone else,…
Rhode Island Energy announced August 25 that it will issue nearly $170 million in bill credits to customers across the state, following authorization from the Rhode…
Japan’s government unveiled a sweeping energy policy package on August 26, 2026, as conflict in the Middle East continues to strain one of the world’s most…
Rockhopper Exploration has launched a capital raising of approximately US$200 million through a placing of new ordinary shares and an open offer, both priced at 70…
A crane vessel held its position over open water while 16,500 tons of steel hung beneath it. Eight piles, each wider than a bus, went into the seabed…
The U.S. Interior Department is working on a rule that would let winter oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska move forward without project-specific…
Sempra has filed for permits to build the Port Arthur LNG North Project in Texas—a proposed expansion that would add four liquefaction trains with a combined…
A fire broke out overnight at Hemisphere Energy Corporation‘s (TSXV: HME) largest oil battery at its Atlee Buffalo property in Alberta. Emergency protocols were activated immediately,…
Saudi Aramco disclosed more than $3.7 billion in potential agreements with French companies at a French-Saudi investment roundtable attended by Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser.…
At nine on an April evening in British waters, a drilling crew was threading a stack of pressure control equipment down through the water column. It…
Rockhopper Exploration just released results from an updated independent technical report by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI), effective July 31, 2026, covering its Sea Lion…
Oilfield services giant SLB has signed a contract with Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, giving it access to the country’s closely guarded geological and production databases.…
In a service bay outside Kansas City, a technician reaches for a quart of full synthetic and finds the shelf price close to double what it was in…
Net Power Inc. announced two agreements Tuesday aimed at pushing forward its power-first strategy at Project Permian, its first powered land project in West Texas. The…
The energy sector has no shortage of net-zero ambitions. What it increasingly lacks, according to OPITO, is the trained workforce to deliver them. To close that…
The steel casing sticks a few inches out of the dirt, threaded shut, the last operator long gone. The ground around it is bare and crusted,…
The hardest part of a gas project is not drilling it. It is the six months after the valves open, when everything that was fine on…
SLB just dropped two new artificial lift technologies for U.S. land operations: the Harbison-Fischer Deka diamond-coated rod pump barrel and the Synthetix hydraulic gas lift system.…
Texas upstream oil and gas employment fell by 1,200 jobs between June and July 2026, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by the Texas…
The blue ring on the gas stove lights instantly and burns clean to look at. It is the picture the industry spent decades putting in front…
Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil sector is putting up numbers not seen in years. Production across the province’s five offshore fields climbed to 285–310 thousand barrels…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s 2026 Liquids Pipeline Projects Database, published August 26, 2026, confirmed that eight petroleum liquids pipeline projects were completed across the United…
The tool went in clean, moving through 42 inch steel that had sat empty for fourteen years under the Louisiana coast. It was built to scrub and measure,…
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order on August 21, 2026, directing PJM Interconnection and Constellation Energy to keep two natural gas- and oil-fired…
For more than a century, the wells of southern Arkansas pumped oil to the surface and dragged something else up with it. That something else was…
Continental Resources signed agreements Thursday to acquire a 50% stake in Phoenix Global Resources, an Argentine shale oil company owned by commodity trading house Mercuria Energy…
Türkiye’s state oil company TPAO and private Turkish firms signed multiple energy agreements with Syria on 19 August 2026, with Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announcing…
A valve fitting on a wellhead in southeastern New Mexico looks like nothing from the county road. No sound, no shimmer, no smell worth noticing. What…
Tanzania’s first small-scale LNG facility just got a lot closer to happening. Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp. (TPDC), TAQA Arabia—operating through its subsidiary Rosetta Energy Solutions—and Africa50…
On August 20, 2026, the Philippines’ Department of Energy formally welcomed the opening of a new LPG import terminal in Barangay Libjo, Batangas City—a facility built…
Calgary-based CanAsia Energy Corp. has agreed to sell its Sawn Lake heavy oil project in an all-cash deal worth up to $40.15 million USD—a move that…
Dolphin Drilling posted EBITDA of USD 15.3 million for the first half of 2026, up approximately 47 percent from USD 10.4 million in the same period…
The rock down there holds more pressure than any producing formation the industry had ever tapped. Above it sits almost a mile of open water, and…
Horizon Petroleum confirmed this week that the Lachowice 7 well in southern Poland passed two casing pressure tests, verifying wellbore integrity ahead of a planned workover…
Torches were already lit on the upper deck when the shift settled in. Fog sat on the channel thick enough that nothing was going to fly…
Supertanker earnings on the Persian Gulf-to-China route hit nearly $510,000 a day recently—the highest since late June—according to Baltic Exchange data. Persian Gulf exporters are scrambling…
A WhiteWater-led joint venture just gave the go-ahead to the Solitude Pipeline System—a new natural gas pipeline designed to move Permian Basin gas to the U.S.…
The lift had gone routine for a while. A crew was lowering the rig’s pressure control stack through the moonpool, the way it is done on…
At low tide on a February morning, an excavator crawled to the far west end of Summerland Beach and started digging a pit in wet sand.…
Powerus, a US autonomous-systems firm, just locked in a $22.3 million contract to install a counter-drone detection and tracking system at an undisclosed energy facility in…
Transocean just locked in a binding Letter of Award with India’s ONGC for the ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2. The deal is worth around $300 million.…
The Bureau of Land Management wrapped up a quarterly oil and gas lease sale covering 25 parcels and 20,334 acres across New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas,…
Latin America’s two largest oil companies have quietly joined forces to probe one of the most ambitious—and risky—frontiers in offshore drilling. In recent weeks, teams from…
A flare stands over the creeks of the Niger Delta and burns all night, the way it has burned since before most people under it were…
North Dakota pumped 1,153,000 barrels of oil per day in June 2026, up 28,000 bpd from May, according to the North Dakota Industrial Commission. For one…
The aircraft climbs to survey altitude just after dawn and turns onto the first line. Below, nothing looks wrong. Pump jacks nod, tank batteries sit on…
Empire Petroleum Corporation just completed a 21,006-foot re-entry and subsurface evaluation of the Wakefield-Harrison GU B #1 well in Madison County, Texas—making it the deepest modern…
ExxonMobil and its Area 4 partners have awarded roughly $1.1 billion in engineering, procurement, and manufacturing contracts for the Rovuma LNG project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique—and…
Colombia’s Ecopetrol just closed a US$1.2 billion deal to take a controlling 51% stake in Brazilian oil and gas company Brava Energia. It’s one of the…
Niger signed a $1.9 billion, 16-year agreement with Canada’s Zimar Group and its partner High Tech on August 15, 2026, to finance, design, build, and operate…
