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Global Oil Glut Set to Halve in May

The global imbalance between oil supply and demand is set to halve in May, according to Rystad Energy.




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Veteran Iranian OPEC Governor in Coma

Hossein Kazempour Ardebili is in a coma after a severe brain hemorrhage.




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Oil Rallies for Fourth Day as US Crude Build Slows

But there is a lot of upward momentum in supply that needs to be reversed.




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Oil Downturn Looks A Bit Like 2008 Financial Meltdown

Oil and gas industry-focused cloud software firm exec observes similarities and differences between two historic episodes.




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Oil Up as Output Cuts Ease Glut Concern

Oil was headed for the longest run of daily gains in more than nine months.




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Oil Extends Recovery on Hope Supply Cuts Will Ease Glut

Oil's recovery from last month's epic plunge accelerated as production cuts start to whittle down a supply glut.




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Oil Rally Runs Out of Steam on Trepidation

Oil's rally ran out of steam after prices doubled over five days.




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Oil Snaps Five-Day Rally

Futures in New York fell 2.3 percent Wednesday, after doubling in value from a week ago.




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Oil Will Hit $100 in Around 18 Months

The oil price has been predicted to hit $100 per barrel in around 18 months.




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Halliburton Faces Another Set of Layoffs

The job losses were expected to occur on April 29.




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Gyrodata Sells Directional Drilling Division to Intrepid

The deal doubles Intrepid's directional drilling capabilities in North America.




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IOC Wins Approval On Phase 1 Development Plan

Full contract awards are expected shortly for key Phase 1 workstreams.




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Borr Divests Two Rigs

A subsidiary of Borr Drilling sold two standard jack-up rigs for $15.8 million, including the associated backlog from April 1, 2020.




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Petrobras Plans to Divest Manati Field Stake

Petrobras is the operator with a 35 percent interest.




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Oceaneering Leadership, Board Take Voluntary Pay Cuts

The cuts affected base payments by as much as 20 percent.




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Marathon Names Henderson SVP, Operations

Effective May 4, he will oversee the company's US resource play businesses.




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Shell to Divest Pennsylvania Assets

Shell has agreed to sell its Appalachia shale gas position to National Fuel Gas Co. for $541 million.




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Total Targets Carbon Neutrality in 2050

Total SA set out bolder commitments to eliminate most of its carbon emissions by 2050, while curbing spending on oil and gas projects due to the crude-price slump.




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Wintershall Dea Merger Came at Right Time

The merger of Wintershall and DEA came at exactly the right time, according to the chairman of the board of executive directors at Wintershall Dea.




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BP AGM Venue Not Available

BP has been notified by ExCeL London that the venue will not be available to host the company's annual general meeting this year.




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Apache South America Campaign Concludes

Oceaneering International reported that it has successfully completed an integrated rig services campaign for Apache offshore South America.




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Oxy Takes $1.4B Writedown

Occidental Petroleum Corp. took a $1.4 billion writedown related to an investment in a pipeline affiliate.




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Petrofac Bags UK Deals Worth $100MM+

Petrofac has been awarded two three-year renewals in the UK worth a combined total of more than $100 million.




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Imperial Oil Names New SVP, Upstream

He succeeds John Whelan, who has been named VP, Global Heavy Oil, ExxonMobil Upstream Oil and Gas.




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Pure Acquisition to Merge With HighPeak Energy

HighPeak will operate as an independent oil and gas company with a focus on the Midland Basin.




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Equinor Completes Lundin Divestiture

This photo shows a view of the Johan Sverdrup field offshore Norway. Photo by Ole Jørgen Bratland. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor




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2.4 billion-year-old fungus could rewrite our evolutionary heritage

The find is roughly 2 billion years older than any other known fungus fossil.



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History's most powerful shark was killed off by a global extinction event

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.



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Underwater forest is an ancient 'fairy world' found just off the Alabama coast

The 50,000-year-old, perfectly preserved forest is showcased like never before in a newly released documentary.



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Frozen remains of missing couple emerge from Swiss glacier

Frozen remains found in Swiss glacier of couple who disappeared 75 years ago while hiking in the Alps.



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Humans may have settled in Australia 80,000 years ago, way earlier than previously thought

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could push the date of human habitation in Australia back possibly as far as 80,000 years ago.



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9-year-old literally trips over huge fossil

While hiking in New Mexico's Las Cruces desert, Jude Sparks tripped over a stegomastodon skull.



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This is what the first flower to ever evolve looked like

Researchers trace back the origin of all flowering plants to a single ancestor using a sophisticated data crunch.



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How did dinosaurs end up with beaks instead of teeth?

Scientists have uncovered the mystery of beak evolution.




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New prehistoric monster was a seafaring crocodilian

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.




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We have way more Neanderthal genes than scientists previously thought

Neanderthals might be extinct, but their genes still live on inside of us.



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Why some people love animals and others, not so much

Loving animals may have been passed down genetically from ancestors who appreciated their services.




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Rare metal from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs can cure cancer, says professor

New research seems to demonstrate that iridium, a rare metal found in meteorites, can kill cancer cells.



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Huge cache of rare pterosaur eggs found, some containing embryo remains

The discovery of rare pterosaur eggs is being heralded as one of the most extraordinary discoveries in paleontology.




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7 less-famous natural history museums worth a visit

Learn about the natural world past and present at these outstanding museums



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Oldest fossils ever found confirmed to be 3.5 billion years old

The finding indicates that life on Earth began much earlier than previously thought.



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Geologists find that a remote region of Australia was once connected to Canada

Surprising evidence linking Australia and Canada reminds us that our planet is a dynamic place.



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Ancient slab of dinosaur tracks discovered behind NASA Space Flight Center

The 100-million-year-old sandstone slab of 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from the Cretaceous period is one of the rarest ever discovered.




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Tree rings reveal our past — and our future

It's called dendrochronology, the study of data culled from the growth patterns of trees. And it can tell us a lot.



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Does the world's 'loneliest' tree mark the start of a new epoch?

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.



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Does ancient cave art provide the clues to early human language?

A paper hypothesizes that some of our language skills evolved out of specific cave art features.



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Ancient fossils found on lands once part of Bears Ears National Monument

Triassic fossils found on lands that were previously part of Bears Ears National Monument could fall under 'multiple-use' management.



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Divers unearth 7,000-year-old Native American burial site off Florida coast

The archaeological site is located a mere 900 feet off Manasota Key in Florida.



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'Apple detectives' rediscover 5 lost types

Hard-working 'apple detectives' in Washington and Idaho rediscovered 5 types of apples thought to be extinct.



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Rare mammal that's still alive today once walked with dinosaurs

New genetic evidence shows that Solenodons survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.