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Valeura Energy picked up two formal recognitions in 2026: the TSX30 award from the Toronto Stock Exchange, which ranks the 30 top-performing stocks across all TSX…
Calgary-based Prospera Energy Inc. (TSXV: PEI) announced on September 9, 2026, a non-brokered private placement of up to 400 million units priced at $0.03 per unit,…
A wooded hillside in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, steep, second growth, no road within half a mile. Somewhere under the leaf litter is a steel…
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe have formally kicked off a joint planning process for oil and gas development across…
The Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico State Office has officially published protest decisions and final environmental documentation for its Quarter 3 2026 oil and gas…
Chevron just dropped a five-year expansion plan in Venezuela that would double its drilling rigs and push crude production from roughly 290,000 to approximately 600,000 barrels…
Expro just launched Velonix®, an automated pipeline pig control system that pairs clamp-on SONAR measurement with digitally controlled flow adjustment to keep pigs moving at the…
Jordan’s Cabinet just approved a plan to pipe natural gas into Lebanon — routed straight through Syrian territory. The setup works like this: Jordan imports LNG,…
Iraq has formally asked OPEC to raise its oil production quota to a baseline of 6 million barrels per day — well above its current ceiling…
Two Alberta landowners and two advocacy groups took the province’s energy regulator to court on Tuesday, filing a judicial review application that puts a pointed question…
Brazil’s Búzios field, operated by Petrobras in the pre-salt offshore, crossed a milestone it had never reached before: in July 2026, the field averaged 381.4 million…
Matrix has been selected by America First Refining (AFR) to carry out front-end engineering and design work on the storage tank farm for what would be…
Baker Hughes just landed two separate equipment contracts from Venture Global LNG to support a major natural gas infrastructure buildout in Louisiana. The first covers 13…
Technip Energies, Honeywell Technologies, and Siemens Energy just teamed up to launch SnapLNG 1.5 — a standardized, fully modular, electrified LNG production solution built around a…
PETRONAS LNG Ltd and Japan’s government energy agency JOGMEC signed a master sales and purchase agreement for LNG supply at the LNG Producer and Consumer Conference…
S-Oil just made it official. The South Korean refiner has reached a final investment decision to deploy Axens’ Liquid Phase Isomerization (LPI) technology at its aromatics…
A berth on the Baja California coast, floodlit, a tanker alongside. Loading arms swing out over the water and lock onto the ship’s manifold. Gas chilled…
Wood just landed a US$200 million, five-year construction services contract with ExxonMobil PNG. The work supports brownfield operations across the PNG LNG project in Papua New…
Enbridge has agreed to buy the crude oil business of Blackstone-owned Tallgrass Energy for $2.55 billion in cash, adding a significant pipeline network to its U.S.…
Clariant Catalysts and Lummus Technology just landed a catalyst supply contract for the world’s largest propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit — a project commissioned by Zhejiang Petrochemical…
U.S. crude oil production is on track to set a new annual record. The Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook projects output will average 13.8…
Flat reclaimed ground in eastern Germany, the floor of a lignite region that stopped digging. Out of it rises a steel lattice frame that looks more…
Lithuanian state energy company Ignitis has agreed to sign a 10-year LNG supply deal with a subsidiary of EQT Corp., one of the largest natural gas…
A corner of a wheat field outside a small town in central Oklahoma, flat brown ground, a fence line and nothing else. A squat rusted wellhead…
Natural gas prices at Algonquin Citygate, a major New England pricing hub, averaged 43 cents per million British thermal units below the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub…
A working port on the Baja coast, arid hills behind it, a tanker alongside a jetty. Loading arms are coupled to the ship’s manifold, and frost…
Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. (TSX: SOIL) just got the green light from the Toronto Stock Exchange to run another round of share buybacks. The Calgary-based…
Indian and Chinese refiners — the world’s two largest oil importers — have sharply stepped up spot purchases of Middle Eastern crude in early September, competing…
Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC) have secured Approval in Principle for a 114,000 DWT product and crude oil…
OQ Gas Networks, Oman’s sole operator of the national natural gas transmission network, is simultaneously building three gas pipeline projects — all scheduled for completion by…
Arabian Drilling signed an $800 million land rig contract with SLB Middle East on August 30, 2026 — one of the largest drilling agreements the Saudi…
Flat water at the southern end of the Gulf of Suez, an hour or so before dark. Three tugs are pulling a barge toward a new…
A production deck in the Santa Barbara Channel, with rows of valve trees standing in the salt air. The paint on the risers is new. The…
Open water in the deepwater Gulf, a long way from anything, with a squared off platform standing on four columns. The seafloor under it lies more…
Something that heavy does not tip. It leans, then it settles, then it keeps settling for days afterward while everybody stands back and watches it. That…
The joint venture behind Petroleum Exploration License 93 in Namibia’s onshore Owambo Basin has formally applied to enter a second renewal exploration period, committing to drill…
Malaysia’s national oil company posted MYR 27.2 billion — roughly $6.73 billion — in profit after tax for the first half of 2026, a four percent…
On September 1, 2026, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order requiring the Orlando Utilities Commission to keep Unit 1 of the Stanton Energy…
At four in the morning the sea out there is black and the deck lights do not reach it. A slick makes no sound and shows nothing in…
There is a real finding here and it is narrower than it sounds. Somebody counted reported leaks state by state, year by year, and set those…
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…
