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Exxon Closes $60B Pioneer Deal, Reshaping Permian Basin

After facing regulatory scrutiny, Exxon Mobil closed a roughly $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. The largest shale oil transaction ever signed will reshape the order of power in the vast Permian Basin oil field. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Pemex Reports Lower 2Q Production and Net Income

Mexico’s Pemex reported both lower oil and gas production and a 91% drop in net income in first-quarter 2024, but the company also reduced its total debt to $101.5 billion, executives said during an earnings webcast with analysts. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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26 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Apr 22 – 28

Two weeks ago, during the week of April 15 – 21, there were 16 new permits issued to drill in the Marcellus/Utica. Last week, for the week of April 22 – 28, there were 26 new permits issued. Finally! A little good news on the permit front. Snyder Brothers took the top prize with eight…

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Gulfport 1Q – Focusing On Liquids in 2024, Still Loves Marcellus

Gulfport Energy, the third-largest driller in the Ohio Utica Shale (by the number of wells drilled), reported its first quarter 2024 numbers earlier this week. The company drills Utica *and* Marcellus wells in Ohio. It also has an active drilling program in the Oklahoma SCOOP shale play. Gulfport’s net daily production for 1Q24 averaged 1,053.7…

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Martins Ferry Asks ODNR to Begin Cleanup of Austin Master Services

Yesterday we told you that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking a Belmont County judge to find Austin Master Services (AMS) and Brad D. Domitrovitsch, who is in control of the company, in contempt for “failing to meet the court’s deadline to clean up the illegal levels of fracking waste stored at its recycling…

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Antero Midstream Picks Summit Midstream’s Final M-U Assets for $70M

Antero Midstream, a separate company from Antero Resources (at least on paper, although it is managed by the same people), issued a press release yesterday to announce it had purchased a bolt-on acquisition of gathering and compression assets in the Marcellus Shale for $70 million from Summit Midstream Partners. The assets acquired include two compressor…

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Big Green Uses Locals to Sue Dominion re NC LNG Storage Tank

Dominion Energy wants to build a liquified natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Person County, North Carolina, to enhance natural gas service reliability for residential and business customers in the growing region (see NC Residents Freak Out Over Proposed Dominion LNG Storage Tank). Dominion studied several potential sites and collected a boatload of data during…

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Sunoco Completes $7.3B NuStar Energy Merger

The completion of its acquisition of NuStar Energy allows Sunoco to realize at least $150 million of expense and commercial synergies and at least $50 million per year of additional cash flow from refinancing activity. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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World Energy Congress Emphasizes Key Role of Oil and Natural Gas Industry In Lowering Carbon Emissions

Last week at the World Energy Congress, a global event hosting thousands of the world’s most important energy stakeholders in the Netherlands, executives, experts, and diplomats all repeated the same message: the world needs to lower carbon emissions without compromising the supply of oil and natural gas. Whilst oil and natural gas is diversifying, millions

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