Exxon’s Custom, Lightweight Proppant Boosts Permian EURs by 15%

Exxon is lowering drilling and completion costs, boosting EURs by 15% with custom proppant and considering upside from less developed Permian Basin zones.

December 16, 2024

Exclusive: Novi Labs’ Ludwig on AI Preventing Costly Drilling Mistakes

Novi Labs President and Co-Founder Jon Ludwig gives insight on how AI and machine learning allow diverse applications for oil and gas operations and less risk for cataclysmic failure, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.

December 12, 2024

Exclusive: Early Findings Show Untapped Potential in Barnett Exploration

Steven Jolley, Halliburton’s Permian Basin technology manager, gives insight into potential for new drilling opportunities around Andrews County and efficiencies operators are seeing within the Permian, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.

December 3, 2024

Exclusive: Permian’s Relevance in US Oil Production Expected to Increase

Jefferies’ Pete Bowden, the global head of industrial, energy and infrastructure investing, discussed the trajectory of the Permian Basin’s production and the future of M&A in the increasingly consolidated region, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.

November 26, 2024

Jefferies: With Permian Locked Up, E&Ps Hunt for New L48 Runway

With the core of the Permian Basin largely locked up, “intrepid operators” are hunting for runway in more nascent Lower 48 basins and in less developed Permian benches.

November 26, 2024

ConocoPhillips: Longer Laterals Coming to Delaware Basin After Marathon Close

After closing a $17.1 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips’ Delaware Basin leader sees opportunities to drill longer laterals and investigate secondary benches underground.

November 22, 2024

Exclusive: Surge Energy Seeks Midland M&A with $1.3B in Dry Powder

Surge Energy is one of the largest private oil producers in the Permian Basin. With $1.3 billion in dry powder to put to work, Surge is scouring the northern Midland Basin for M&A, executive Travis Guidry told Hart Energy.

November 19, 2024

Devon Ups Delaware Basin Ante With 21-Well Pad, Secondary Zones

Devon Energy is producing record volumes from the Delaware Basin—its biggest asset—where the company drilled a 21-well pad targeting six different intervals in recent months.

November 6, 2024

Diamondback Touts Land, Cheap Gas to Lure Data Centers to Permian

With 65,000 land acres, cheap natural gas and an abundant produced water supply, Diamondback wants to lure power-hungry data centers to West Texas.

November 5, 2024

SM Kicks Off Dean Wildcatting With 918 Boe/d Choked IPs

Operator SM Energy is constraining IPs to not overwhelm its produced-water facilities.

November 4, 2024