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11 July 2022

Freehold arranges to buy assets in Eagle Ford, Midland basins

9 July 2022

Calgary-based Freehold Royalties revealed on July 7 that it had arranged to buy a number of “high-quality” assets in the Eagle Ford and Midland basins in Texas for the sum of CAD155mn ($119.93mn).

Ovintiv arranges to sell portions of its Bakken and Uinta portfolios

9 July 2022

Denver-based Ovintiv has arranged to sell portions of its assets in the Bakken and Uinta basins to two counterparties for about $250mn.

Texas oil and gas production tax revenues hit record highs in June

8 July 2022

The state government of Texas saw oil and gas production tax revenues rise to record-high levels in the month of June, according to Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar.

US government releases 2023-2028 offshore drilling plan

8 July 2022

The US Department of the Interior released its new five-year offshore drilling plan on July 1, saying it would carry out no more than 11 new potential Atlantic and Pacific lease sales during the 2023-2028 period.

Freeport LNG targets restart in early October

8 July 2022

Freeport LNG has said it is on track to resume partial operations early in the fourth quarter of this year.

Barkindo: Downstream factors play a key role in oil price volatility

6 July 2022

Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, the late secretary-general of OPEC, said hours before his death that constraints in the downstream sector were making a bigger contribution to the volatility of oil prices than most observers realise.

OPEC secretary-general dies in Abuja

6 July 2022

Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, the secretary-general of OPEC, died unexpectedly in Abuja late on July 5.

NorthAmOil: US government releases 2023-2028 offshore drilling plan

6 July 2022

The US Department of the Interior released its new five-year offshore drilling plan on July 1, saying it would carry out no more than 11 new potential Atlantic and Pacific lease sales during the 2023-2028 period.

TC Energy says Coastal GasLink pipeline is more than 64% complete

5 July 2022

Calgary-based TC Energy reports that work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which will deliver natural gas to the LNG Canada terminal in British Columbia, was 64.2% complete as of the end of June.

ExxonMobil, Imperial strike deal to sell Canadian shale assets

1 July 2022

ExxonMobil and Imperial Oil have agreed to sell their Montney and Duvernay assets in Canada to Whitecap resources for $1.5bn.

Canada talks LNG options with Germany

1 July 2022

Germany is holding talks with Canada in an attempt of secure options for exporting LNG to Europe from Canada’s East Coast.