The daily business of oil and gas in America — deals, drilling, prices and the policy that moves them.
For decades, oil and gas operators have managed reservoirs largely on estimates — relying on infrequent well tests and static models that offer only periodic glimpses…
More than 100 oil and gas executives expect WTI crude oil prices to fall well below where they are now, according to the Q3 2026 Dallas…
A barge crane eased a steel structure down onto a jacket already driven into the floor of the Irish Sea. The water here is only around…
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories rose by 0.9 million barrels for the week ending September 25, reaching 427.3 million barrels — about 2 percent below the…
OPEC held back-to-back high-level meetings with the world’s second- and third-largest oil consumers. The eighth OPEC-China energy dialogue took place in Beijing, co-chaired by Wang Hongzhi…
Canada’s energy sector got a major headline on October 6, 2026: Emera and Canadian Utilities announced they’re merging in an all-share deal that would create a…
Oil and gas executives are bracing for lower crude prices ahead — even as spot prices hover near $99 a barrel. The Q3 2026 Dallas Fed…
A thin sheen crept across a storm drain near a busy intersection in Sterling Heights, Michigan. A passerby was the one who noticed it. Nobody at…
Eni SpA announced Thursday it had finished installing the Douglas CCS platform in the Irish Sea — what the Italian energy company calls the world’s first…
The Bureau of Land Management’s Monticello Field Office has issued two separate land-management decisions for San Juan County, Utah. The first renews five existing grazing permits…
With missiles still striking Riyadh’s airports and repair crews working to restore a damaged cross-country pipeline, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman stood before the…
BP’s CEO and the heads of ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, and Shell pulled out of the World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh after an attack on the Saudi capital’s…
The sand here never sits still for long. Dunes creep, bury roads, swallow fences within a season. Its old name warns that whoever enters does not…
Australia’s government will introduce legislation next week to establish a Domestic Gas Reservation Scheme, requiring LNG producers to set aside up to 20% of their output…
PowerLNG has signed a 30-year lease with Galveston Wharves to develop Project Seawolf — a modular LNG production and marine fueling facility on a 30-acre tract…
US natural gas supply is on track to comfortably outpace demand this coming winter, according to a new outlook from the Natural Gas Supply Association. The…
The courtroom in Pointe a la Hache held a verdict that had been building for eight decades. Plaquemines Parish is a thin finger of land jutting…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE did something unusual on Thursday. They showed up to a special session of the Asia Zero Emission Community in Manila —…
More than 40% of the world’s supertanker fleet has converged on the Persian Gulf region, creating a global shortage of very large crude carriers and pushing…
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. announced on October 7 that it’s expanding its 2026 drilling program in Central Alberta — adding two Glauconite wells in the Caroline…
The EPA announced plans Tuesday to rescind its “super emitter” program — a policy that required oil and gas companies to investigate methane leaks flagged by…
Leading energy companies are overhauling how they run oilfield operations. Halliburton, TotalEnergies, Centrica, and Siemens Energy are executing large-scale migrations from legacy on-premises ERP systems to…
The Bureau of Land Management has issued a Proposed Decision and final Environmental Assessment to authorize a new cattle grazing permit across four allotments in Mineral…
Equinor and its partners have announced a gas discovery at the Gullfaks South field in the North Sea, northwest of Bergen, Norway. The find, drilled by…
Major energy companies aren’t waiting for data to travel thousands of miles before they act on it. Saipem, Oceaneering International, TotalEnergies, SLB, and Chevron have each…
Hurricane Isaias forced the shutdown of roughly a quarter of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. federal regulator. The Bureau of…
U.S. natural gas storage hit 3,415 billion cubic feet (Bcf) for the week ending September 25, 2026, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A 64…
U.S. gasoline prices pulled back at the start of October after climbing through much of September. AAA reported that the national average for regular gasoline fell…
Two columns of fire rose from a frozen field, a thousand feet apart, with nothing around them but snow. No house, no road sign, no warning.…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September inflation releases delivered a split signal: both the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index rose 0.4% in August,…
MidOcean Energy has closed its 2026 fundraising round with more than $4 billion in committed capital — more than double the $2 billion target the EIG-managed…
Oil pump stations are the backbone of midstream pipeline infrastructure — and when one goes offline unexpectedly, the financial and logistical fallout moves fast. For decades,…
Vallourec just landed a contract with EnEarth — a subsidiary of Energean — to supply premium tubular solutions for the first phase of the Prinos CO2…
The oil comes up clean and the money follows it west. But for every barrel of crude the Permian Basin sends to market, something unwanted follows…
Serica Energy wrapped up its acquisition of a Southern North Sea gas asset portfolio from Spirit Energy on October 1, 2026. The company paid a net…
Venezuela’s upstream oil sector is pulling in the widest range of international operators it’s seen in decades — and Rystad Energy has put actual numbers to…
Prospex Energy flipped from a £180,101 loss to a £131,941 profit in the first half of 2026. That’s a swing of just over £312,000 in twelve…
Cheniere Energy announced on September 29 that its subsidiary Cheniere Marketing has signed a 22-year liquefied natural gas sale and purchase agreement with Petrobras. Under the…
The wells were drilled for oil. Nobody punched a hole in the Permian Basin in the summer of last year primarily chasing gas, because oil was…
Beacon Energy just got some good news out of Italy. Operator LNEnergy has confirmed that integrity tests on wells MP-1 and MP-2 at the Colle Santo…
At 8:33 on a Monday morning, something travelling at 60,000 miles per second chose a steel roof at a fuel depot south of Tulsa. The tank…
Cranes on offshore platforms and remote oil fields move some of the heaviest, most expensive equipment on earth — and for decades, the math governing those…
Offshore drilling operators are rolling out a new generation of winch systems on deep-sea rigs — and they look nothing like what came before. Driven by…
Lowering a multi-ton wellhead to the seabed nearly two miles down — in total darkness, under crushing pressure, while the surface vessel pitches in open swells…
Oil refineries around the world are equipping their cranes with smart sensor systems — combining radar, LiDAR, and ultrasonic technology — to automate collision avoidance, monitor…
Petro Matad pumped 41,941 barrels of crude oil from its Mongolian Block XX wells in the first half of 2026 — and collected zero in oil…
Hydraulic lifting systems have long moved the heaviest loads in oil and gas logistics — but the technology driving them is changing fast. A new generation…
Excelerate Energy handed Nord Gas Solutions a contract in July 2026 to supply the regasification system module for converting the 170,000-cubic-meter (6.0-million-cubic-foot) LNG carrier Methane Patricia…
Vantris Energy just locked in two offshore transportation and installation contracts in Malaysia — one from PETRONAS Carigali, one from PTTEP — worth a combined RM1.8…
Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSE: LNG) has set October 29, 2026, as the date for its third quarter earnings release, with results due before the market opens…
