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Lilis Energy Inc., which plies its exploration talents across the Permian Basin, on Monday sought voluntary protection under Chapter 11 to reduce debt. The filing came one day after onshore giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. filed for voluntary bankruptcy. Fort Worth, TX-based Lilis filed petitions in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston…

Natural Gas futures sunk to a low last seen in 1995 Storage injection easily surpassed analysts’ expectations and magnified supply/demand imbalance worries Summer heat has intensified in June, but the outlook is mixed Natural gas futures plunged Thursday after a hefty storage injection that easily surpassed the high end of analysts’ expectations and magnified supply/demand…

Occidental Petroleum Corp., which made a $57 billion bet last year to take over Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in part to secure its Permian Basin position, said Thursday it expects to write down the value of its oil and gas assets during the second quarter by $6-9 billion.The Houston-based independent, better known as Oxy, in March…

The oil price debacle, brought about in part by the demand-crushing pandemic, has wiped an estimated $1.6 trillion from the valuation of the global upstream industry, with North American losses leading the way, a new analysis by Wood Mackenzie has found. Global upstream development spend overall this year has been knocked down by 30% from…

Pipeline natural gas exports to Mexico from the United States averaged an estimated 5.4 Bcf/d during the first half of June, up from about 4.7 Bcf/d for the whole month of May, according to an analysis by Genscape Inc. The June estimate “includes the 6 Bcf/d seen on June 10, the third-highest volume ever registered…

The chances for a sustained recovery in global natural gas demand are being threatened by economies that have been slow to start back up as countries inch out of lockdown and face a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world, according to shipbroker Poten & Partners. Industrial demand remains weak in key…

After surviving protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, Coastal GasLink (CGL) plans to start  laying pipe for the only liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project underway on the northern Pacific coast of British Columbia (BC). CGL said construction employment would roughly triple to peak at more than 2,500 in September as work accelerates along the 416-mile…

Argentina’s government announced on Friday it is freezing natural gas prices for users until the end of the year and will forbid canceling utility services even if users haven’t paid their bills. The move is part of the country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak that has stalled the economy and has kept much of the…

Oilfield service and supply contractors continue to suffer the biggest job losses in the Canadian oil and gas activity slump driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an industry monitoring agency. Cuts of 6,100 field positions accounted for 89% of 6,870 Canadian industry layoffs during May, based on records compiled by Petroleum Labor Market Information…