Month: October 2026

Comstock Resources and SOCAR have advanced their planned $1.65 billion Haynesville partnership with a framework agreement, while exploring opportunities to market gas from the assets as LNG internationally.

DNO says its $5.214-per-share all-cash offer for Capricorn Energy is final and will not be increased after Genel Energy raised its competing bid and secured commitments representing about 39% of Capricorn shares.

Newly listed 1947 Oil & Gas has begun trading on London’s AIM market, providing capital to complete its previously announced Renaissance Offshore acquisition and pursue additional producing assets in the Gulf of America.

INEOS is marking a decade of U.S. shale ethane supply to its Grangemouth complex, with more than 400 shipments received since the first purpose-built Dragon Ship arrived in Scotland in 2016.

ExxonMobil and SOCAR have formed a joint venture to explore and develop unconventional oil and gas resources in Azerbaijan’s Middle Kura basin, taking U.S. shale expertise into a new international play.

TotalEnergies, SOCAR and XRG have taken FID on the full-field Absheron development offshore Azerbaijan, targeting 6 Bcma of gas and 47,000 bpd of condensate from 2029.

The Railroad Commission of Texas has named Worth Farabee its new Government Relations Director, bringing nearly two decades of legislative and government affairs experience to the state’s energy regulator.

ABL will support Allseas’ single-lift removal of Equinor’s Statfjord A topside, with Pioneering Spirit’s lifting capacity upgraded to 60,000 tonnes for the North Sea decommissioning project.

Energy Workforce is urging policymakers to reject a U.S. diesel export ban, warning it could force Gulf Coast refiners to cut production while calling for temporary tariff relief on critical energy components instead.

Navitas Petroleum has assumed operatorship of Block 1 CBK offshore South Africa, where the partners have identified more than 3.6 Bbbl of unrisked prospective oil resources and plan two exploration wells.