Archives for August 2016
Dealmakers at NAPE remain upbeat even in downturn
The buyers and sellers of oil land are getting together this week to cut some deals. The annual summer NAPE conference, formerly known as the North American Prospect Expo, kicks off Wednesday at the...
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Louisiana politicians go to court blaming Big Oil for coastal ruin
ALLIANCE, La. — The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-size stretch of Louisiana has disappeared. But few politicians would blame Big Oil for ecosystem abuse in a...
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Here’s the one industry that shines among shale field gloom
Amid the gloom and doom that’s set in all along America’s shale fields these past two years, there has been one small, but consistent, bright spot. Sand, it turns out, is a much greater tool...
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The oil rig count keeps growing in Texas
The number of rigs actively seeking oil grew by seven this past week, and all of that growth came in Texas’ Permian Basin or Eagle Ford shale. The overall rig count only grew by one,...
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Market Currents: Saudi, Iran and Iraq keep on pumping
Welcome to another Nonfarm Friday! As job creation last month was mucho better than consensus (255,000 jobs created versus 180,000 expected, with an upward revision to prior data to boot), broader markets have a skip...
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