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Drilling, discoveries, shale, and offshore. Where the oil and gas come from.
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The UK government's total energy dataset posts quarterly figures a quarter late and monthly figures two months late, a gap set by the release schedule itself.
By Global Energy Report · 3d
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Shell's Velox-1X well found oil indicators in record-deep water off Egypt, raising the prospect of the Western Mediterranean's first crude discovery.
Drilling Contractor · 3d
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ONGC virtually spudded its first deepwater exploratory well off Odisha on 25 July 2026, opening a campaign to test India's deep offshore reserves.
Drilling Contractor · 5d
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DNO's Q2 2026 trading update shows North Sea volumes surging year on year while Kurdistan output stayed near zero as the restart continues.
GlobeNewswire-Exploration-Production · 5d
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The partners have finished six of ten planned wells and installed the Neptun Alpha platform as they push toward first gas from the Black Sea project in 2027.
Drilling Contractor · 13d
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Jadestone's EBA-07ST1 well came online at 2,800 bopd, setting a new Malaysia extended-reach drilling record on the East Belumut field.
Drilling Contractor · 13d
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Gas reached surface on three flow tests in the Elandshoek formation at Kavango West 1X, and testing now moves up to the Huttenberg's 76 net meters of pay.
By Global Energy Report · 16d
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Transfer agent Equiniti will credit shareholders one new share for every 30 held on July 22, 2026, as Next Bridge addresses concerns over dividend crediting.
All Energy · 16d
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The uppermost of three tested zones in the Elandshoek formation flowed gas to surface, the first hydrocarbons produced onshore Namibia.
Drilling Contractor · 16d
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DeepOcean recovered a wellhead protection structure at Spirit Energy's Seven Seas field and disconnected subsea gear at Grove West, ahead of a rig campaign.
By Global Energy Report · 18d
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Wellpad works and rig mobilization move Invictus toward a H2 2026 spud of Musuma-1, a well testing a new play outside its Mukuyu gas find.
By Global Energy Report · 26d
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NOV's self-learning AI system builds mud report parsing prompts in 8.8 minutes on average, versus about 960 minutes by hand, testing found.
Drilling Contractor · 27d
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Field data from more than 310 wells shows cloud-based closed-loop drilling automation lifting penetration rate and lateral footage while cutting BHA runs.
Drilling Contractor · 27d
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The predictive maintenance system, built with Prescient Devices, now runs on 300+ mud pumps across 120+ rigs in the US, Canada and the Middle East.
Drilling Contractor and Drilling Contractor · 27d
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A new appraisal well at the 2023 Carmen gas-condensate discovery in the Norwegian North Sea has pushed recoverable resource estimates to between 21 and 107 million boe.
Drilling Contractor · 41d