Oil And Gas

The global oil and natural gas upcycle has begun, with more capital spending set to flow into the onshore and offshore heading into 2022, Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Olivier Le Peuch said Friday. The head of the world’s largest oilfield services (OFS) company shared a bullish view of the energy markets during a third-quarter conference call…

The U.S. natural gas markets are going to see big swings for at least the next year and a half, with production volumes exiting this year at about the same rate as when the year began, according to an IHS Markit expert. IHS Markit’s Jack Weixel, senior director of the Gas, Power and Energy Futures…

Matador Resources Co. expects to drill nine wells before the end of the year at its Rodney Robinson leasehold in Eddy County, NM, management said Wednesday. Dallas-based Matador said it is currently running two drilling rigs at Rodney Robinson in the western portion of the firm’s Antelope Ridge asset area in the Permian Basin’s Delaware…

A bipartisan group of Texas legislators has asked the Biden administration to intervene on behalf of U.S. energy companies operating in Mexico amid the latter country’s increasingly nationalistic energy policies. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, along with 18 of the state’s 32 U.S. representatives, signed a letter Tuesday (Oct. 19) to U.S. Ambassador to…

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has high hopes of changing the rules of the game in the electric power sector, but his proposal likely won’t be voted on in Congress until early next year as the reform is studied by legislators. The reform, if passed, would modify the constitution to eliminate upstream oil and…

While the prospect of a cold winter is threatening to send an energy market already in crisis spiraling further, efforts in China to secure the supplies it needs to get through the season could make matters worse. China is the world’s largest energy consumer, and it has rapidly transformed into a natural gas-buying behemoth in…

U.S. onshore oil and natural gas production is set to rise from October to November, propelled by supply growth in the Permian Basin and Haynesville Shale, according to updated projections Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Natural gas production from seven key U.S. producing regions — the Anadarko, Appalachia and Permian basins, along…

A Northern California county has lost an appeal to curb oil and natural gas development following an appeals court ruling. Monterey County voters in November 2016 approved Measure Z, a ballot initiative to prohibit new drilling activities in unincorporated areas. San Ramon, CA-based Chevron Corp. and other producers then filed a lawsuit, arguing the county…

The monthly U.S. oil and gas permit count was nearly flat in September from August, with activity in the Eagle Ford Shale and some smaller Lower 48 plays offsetting declines in the Powder River and Permian basins, according to Evercore ISI. Each month the Evercore team compiles federal and state permitting data to note the…