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World Oil provides the latest news and trends in the exploration, drilling and completion of onshore and offshore oil and gas.

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SLB is expanding its work with Vår Energi. It has been selected as the main integrated drilling services supplier for the Transocean Barents and Deepsea Bergen rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, with options running through 2034.

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Kolibri Global Energy’s first test of Oklahoma’s False Caney formation is off to a strong start, averaging 636 boed from a 1.2-mi lateral. The company is aiming for 2-mi laterals in future wells. #Oklahoma #Shale #Drilling #Completions

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Regional Report -- Middle East. In a @WorldOil exclusive, contributing editor Gordon Feller looks back at a historic year, and at why export routes, not reservoirs, will constrain the next one.

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Murphy Oil keeps adding acreage. It has signed PSCs for four blocks offshore Cameroon covering 2.6 million acres, its third new exploration entry in about a week after Mauritania and Israel. #Exploration #Cameroon #WestAfrica #MurphyOil

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@ADNOCGas bounced back in Q3. Net income doubled to $1.34 billion from Q2, and the company raised its 2026 guidance to at least $4 billion despite continued Hormuz shipping disruption. #LNG #NaturalGas #ADNOCGas #Earnings

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Oilfield expertise is moving into next-generation geothermal. Sage Geosystems has selected @Halliburton for cementing and stimulation on Project Vector, a two-well EGS project supplying heat to Ormat’s Blue Mountain plant in Nevada.

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AI adoption in energy is accelerating, but success depends less on the AI model itself and more on building a trusted, contextualized, secure data foundation that can support automation, prediction, and bounded autonomy. @ROKAutomation

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- @bp_plc has taken over as operator of three offshore Namibia licenses after completing its 60% farm-in with @EcoAtlantic_OG. A 3D seismic survey covering at least 3,000 km² is set to begin in the coming weeks.

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Black & Veatch has picked Techouse to supply heat recovery steam generation modules for @LngGolar’s fourth FLNG unit. The system is expected to cut the vessel’s fuel use by 20% to 25%.

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DOE has closed its first loan for domestic oil and gas production: $480 million for Arena Energy’s Project Elkhorn, which will modernize 22 U.S. Gulf shelf platforms and add up to 38,600 bpd of oil at peak. #OffshoreOil #USGulf #DOE #ArenaEnergy

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Murphy Oil has won six exploration licenses in Zone G offshore Israel, near the Leviathan gas field, marking its entry into the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Production at the Khor Mor gas facility in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region remains suspended after a suspected drone attack on Nov. 8 caused a fire. Operators Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum say no one was injured and damage is still being assessed.

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Routine mud tests describe fluid condition—they do not show the full cost of maintaining it. Connecting drilling, fluid additions, separation and waste records helps identify where solids accumulate and where useful fluid is lost.

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South Sudan is offering 14 exploration blocks and wants to lift crude output to 230,000 bpd. It is also seeking partners for a 350-km crude pipeline as new African energy financing options emerge.

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- @dnoasa’s offer for Egypt-focused Capricorn Energy has lapsed, leaving Genel Energy’s recommended bid of about $436 million as the only offer on the table.

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ADNOC Drilling has won two offshore jackup contracts from @KocOfficial worth up to $313.6 million, marking its first offshore rig operations outside the UAE. Work is set to start in late 2027.

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In long laterals, surface WOB can look normal while less weight reaches the bit. Ascent Resources and AKM-AI show how tracking hookload by depth lifted lateral ROP about 20%. #Drilling #Utica

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- @nabepgroup is tackling one of Lake Maracaibo’s biggest problems: decades-old, leaking steel pipelines. It has laid 1,149 km of new flexible pipe to 435 wells, with 52,000 bpd already flowing through the new lines. #Venezuela #Pipelines #NABEP

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A key step for Argentina’s Vaca Muerta crude exports: Jumbo Offshore has installed two PLEMs and delivered two CALM buoys for the VMOS terminal near Punta Colorada, designed for up to 550,000 bpd. #VacaMuerta #Argentina #OffshoreInstallation #OilExports

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The Middle East’s data center build-out is still on, but its investment case assumed cheap power, fast permitting and geopolitical calm. Two of those three now look conditional.

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