The daily business of oil and gas in America — deals, drilling, prices and the policy that moves them.
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…
The water turns a flat dead indigo about two hours out from the coast. Then the bottom falls away. More than a mile under the hull…
Elenger has announced three additional US-sourced LNG cargoes bound for Finland’s Port of Inkoo, scheduled for delivery in November and December 2026. The company, the largest…
Russia’s crude oil production has entered what Rystad Energy calls “a new era of constraint.” In a statement sent to Rigzone in August 2026, the energy…
Canada’s oil sands producers have set a target window of late 2027 to early 2028 for a final investment decision on the Pathways carbon capture and…
Arrow Exploration Corp just dropped CAD $12.15 million—about USD $8.9 million—to pick up a 100% working interest in an oil-producing property in Thorsby, Central Alberta. The…
Calgary-based Ensign Energy Services Inc. closed its acquisition of Citadel Drilling Ltd. for $65 million on August 13, 2026. The company funded the deal using cash…
The derrick barely clears the horizon from any angle. Below the ship, a mile of black water. Below that, more than seven miles of rock. Somewhere…
Petro-Victory Energy Corp. just dropped its first-year results for Capixaba Energia—an oil and gas asset in Brazil’s Espírito Santo Basin—and the numbers are hard to ignore.…
A flame has been standing above a clearing in the Gabonese interior for years. It heats nothing. It lights nothing. Nobody is billed. Underneath it a…
Technip Energies just picked up a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the offshore Regasification Terminal Yan project in Kedah, northwest Malaysia. The terminal is…
