HOUSTON, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The CITGO Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors announced today that Jose R. Pocaterra has been named to the Board of Directors, replacing Edgar Rincon who remains CITGO's Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Enverus, the leading energy SaaS and data analytics company, is releasing its summary of Q4 and Full Year 2020 U.S. upstream M&A. After an anemic start, 2020 upstream M&A accelerated dramatically in the second half of the year. Activity crested in Q4 with $27 billion, the third most active quarter by value since oil prices lost their footing in late 2014.

(The Center Square) – State lawmakers fear a potential new federal ban on oil and gas leasing, as supported by President-elect Joe Biden, could cost Wyoming thousands of lost jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.

(The Center Square) – As President -elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, environmental groups are pressuring him to make good on sweeping campaign promises to curb the U.S.’s production of oil.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past decade, there has been confusion among credible news outlets regarding the differences between drilling and fracking.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Analysts at S&P Global Platts, the leading independent provider of information, analysis and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, today released their 2021 energy outlook. The outlook presumes a recovery in global gross domestic product (GDP), highlighted by an acceleration of growth in the second half of 2021.

(The Center Square) – Louisiana will receive $234.6 million of Deepwater Horizon settlement money for wetlands restoration projects in Plaquemines, Terrebonne and St. Bernard parishes, officials said Monday.

HOUSTON, Nov. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Company's third quarter results were driven by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the refining industry as a whole, and were further affected by an eight-week shutdown at the Lake Charles, La. refinery due to Hurricanes Laura and Delta. As a result of these factors, CITGO Petroleum Corporation ("CITGO") reported a net loss of $248 million for the third quarter of 2020 along with EBITDA(1) of $(212) million and adjusted EBITDA of $(183) million.

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Friday her plan to revoke and terminate the easement that has allowed Enbridge to transport petroleum products across the Straits of Mackinac since 1953.

HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- McDermott International, Ltd today announced it has been awarded a contract to provide front end engineering and design (FEED) services for the INPEX-operated Ichthys Liquified Natural Gas Field Development.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CLR) ("Continental" or the "Company") announced today that, subject to market conditions, it intends to offer a series of senior notes due 2031 in a private placement to eligible purchasers. Continental intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund the concurrent tender offers for a portion of the Company's 5.0% senior notes due 2022 and 4.5% senior notes due 2023 and to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith, and the excess, if any, to repay borrowings under our revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.

(The Center Square) – The decrease in oil prices in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic has dealt a significant blow to the Texas oil and gas industry.

HOUSTON, Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- McDermott International, Ltd today announced the second shipment of topside modules for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for MODEC, Inc. (MODEC). It comes just weeks after the first shipment of modules sailed away from McDermott's Altamira fabrication facility located in Mexico.

HOUSTON, Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE American: GDP) (the "Company") today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020.

(The Center Square) – As Election Day draws near, both presidential candidates have spent significant time in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which has also seen conflict between proponents of unconventional natural gas and clean energy sources.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Majors Management, LLC (together with its affiliates, "Majors"), a rapidly growing leader in the U.S. convenience store industry, announced today its acquisition of 14 convenience stores and numerous dealer supply accounts from Regal Oil, Inc. of San Angelo, TX ("Regal"). The Regal portfolio increases Majors' existing presence in Texas and expands Majors' footprint throughout the central US to Kansas.

(The Center Square) – Activities on federal lands in California contributed $14.2 billion in economic output and supported over 84,000 jobs last year, according to an economic impact study from the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI).

(The Center Square) – State shutdowns resulting from executive orders issued by governors and judges resulted in 40 million job lost nationwide, lost revenue for states, and now “sharp, unpredictable swings in tax collections,” according to a new analysis on the fiscal health of states by Pew Charitable Trusts.

(The Center Square) – Over the next two decades, oil and gas production is projected to account for 68 percent of energy consumption in the U.S. and will play a key role in the energy transition to a low carbon future, according to a new report published by the U.S. Department of Energy.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Platts has announced by video the finalists for "Leadership in Energy Transition", one of nearly two dozen awards of the 22nd annual S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards to be presented December 10(th) in a live-stream, virtual gala celebration. Emceeing what are often described as the "Oscars of Energy," will be Emmy and Tony awards winner, actor and comedian Jason Alexander (Cinema's Pretty Woman, Broadway's Fish in the Dark, Television's Seinfeld).

At the quarterly Montana oil and gas lease sale held on September 1, there were 16 tracts totaling 7,071.02 acres that went for auction.

New Locations:

7/20/2020 To 7/24/2020

New Horizontal Well Permits

Environmental activist groups who attacked oil and gas companies for receiving COVID-19 relief accepted millions in paycheck relief loans, according to government documents released earlier this month.

A state mineral lease sale was held on June 2.

The Day of The “Wildcat”

The Department of Energy will rent space to oil producers to store their surplus crude amid a decrease in demand linked to the coronavirus pandemic. 

A federal judge on Friday upheld the Trump administration’s decision to repeal an Obama-era rule that established standards for hydraulic fracking on federal land.

WASHINGTON – The Navajo Generating Station will shut down for good in a matter of days, the plant’s owners announced this week, once the plant burns through its remaining supply of coal.

A bill to halt oil and gas development via a 10-mile exclusionary zone surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park drew opposition from local residents and the representative governments located nearby at a subcommittee hearing yesterday.

The Interior Department requested last week that a federal circuit court allow it to revise environmental reviews of oil and gas leases sold in 2015 and 2016 in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.

The Bureau of Land Management had a record year for revenues from onshore oil and gas lease sales, as well as production in 2018, according to data released by the agency this week.

The rural region connecting eastern Utah and western Colorado are home to abundant natural gas supplies that promise to compete in global markets and deliver climate benefits along the Pacific Rim yet depend on completion of proposed infrastructure projects, according to a new report. The an…

RED VALLEY — Arizona isn’t known as a big oil producing state, like Texas and North Dakota, but what oil is produced here is on Navajo land.