Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Rigs Move To California

Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico are down 61 rigs since November By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 Drilling activity fell in the U.S. this week, the second drop in a row according to Baker Hughes Weekly Rig Count. A net nine rigs came offline in the past week, bringing the national rig count to 1,038 rigs. Eleven land-based

Jagged Peak Supporting 5 Rigs, 1 Completion Crew in Southern Delaware

Eyes 15% cost savings in 2019 By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 Jagged Peak Energy (ticker: JAG) announced fourth quarter results and reserves today, showing net income of $186.3 million, or $0.87 per share. Most of this profit is due to derivatives, and if these and other special charges are excluded Jagged Peak earned $28.2 million in Q4.

Canada’s Oil Capital Takes a Page From the OPEC Playbook

From Bloomberg When prices for Canada’s heavy crude collapsed late last year, Alberta did something quite out of character. The traditionally conservative, free-market-loving province took a page out of OPEC’s handbook and ordered its largest oil producers to throttle back output by about 325,000 barrels a day, the equivalent of almost 9 percent of daily production. The move was an

In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000

From The Wall Street Journal West Texas has seen its share of oil booms, but the people there say this one is unlike any they’ve seen. Driven by shale drilling, a gusher of crude production has transformed the Permian Basin into America’s hottest oilfield, turning what was a remote stretch of towns spread among mesquite trees and scrubland into an industrial

Norway’s Aker BP Switching Gears From M&A to Exploration

From Reuters Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP is switching emphasis from M&A toward exploration, taking a potentially riskier path to increase its resources after years when it has relied on acquisitions to add the bulk of its new barrels. The company said the change of tack was prompted by falling exploration costs, partly as a result of new

The World's Coming Mega-Population Centers and the Energy They Will Need

DOE Plans to Draw Down Strategic Reserve, Sell Up To 6 MMBO

Yesterday the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy announced it would sell up to six million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in a price-competitive bid sale. In FY 2019, the DOE is authorized to sell up to $300 million worth of crude oil from the SPR. DOE plans to draw down and sell