Last month’s article was focused on the value of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) or “smart” maps to mineral owners. I focused on...
INTRO Only time will tell whether OPEC will effectively implement its recent decision to curb oil supplies and reverse a price slump...
In many areas now designated as the SCOOP and STACK, there are oil and gas leases that have been held-by-production for decades....
THE BEGINNING Oklahoma and oil and gas have been synonymous since the late 1800’s. Oklahoma is in the heart of the Mid-Continent...
Since the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Dawes Act of 1887, property in Oklahoma owned by individual Native Americans and Tribes...
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Alta Mesa Holdings, LP ☞STACK Assets Key to Continued Success Alta Mesa Holdings, LP is a privately held company engaged in onshore...
Landmen are no busier than most professionals during the work day, but it is often stated that company landmen never return the...
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U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, with the S&P 500 and technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite each posting its biggest weekly jump since November ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 297.01 points Friday, or 0.7%, to close at 41,393.78.
The S&P 500 climbed 30.26 points, or 0.5%, to finish at 5,626.02.
The Nasdaq advanced 114.30, or 0.7%, to end at 17,683.98.
For the week, the Dow gained 2.6%, the S&P 500 rallied 4%, and the Nasdaq jumped 6%. According to Dow Jones Market Data, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each saw their largest weekly percentage gain since the stretch ending Nov. 3.
Investors are looking ahead to the Fed’s two-day policy meeting next week, which will conclude Wednesday with its highly anticipated decision on where to set interest rates. At last check, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, after the closing bell on Friday, traders were pricing in a 55% chance the Fed will lower its policy rate by a quarter percentage point and a 45% probability of a larger, half-point rate cut.
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A federal judge has hit the pause button on new oil and gas drilling...
Story By Andreas Exarheas |Rigzone.com| The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest gasoline and...
By David Wethe | (Bloomberg) — The price to rent a deepwater drilling rig may...
Chevron CEO Michael Wirth recently criticized U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration for policies that...
Story by Bloomberg, via RigZone.com |Authors: J.Saul, N.S.Malik, M.Chediak| Energy companies in the US are...
A small group of California Republicans has introduced several bills ahead of a special...
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By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com | Crude oil prices moved higher today after the...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),...
Chris Matthews from Hart Energy, who covers the North American upstream shale energy industry...
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