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The heart of the US oil boom is slowing

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(BOE Report) –NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) Oil fields are just as quick to make fortunes as break them. A mere two years later, over-extraction drove the field into decline. With even remote fields like Alaskas North Slope sputtering and the cost to find and extract an additional barrel of oil rising, collapse loomed.

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Colombia’s GeoPark appoints Felipe Bayon as its new CEO

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Bayon is a mechanical engineer who began his career in 1991 with Shell in field operations and projects and then moved to bp where he worked for 21 years in increasingly important operational and management roles in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, the U.S. and the U.K.,

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Why predictions of “peak oil” are always wrong: The mirage of “peak oil” in America

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Apparently, peak oil is back in vogue, like it’s 2005 instead of 2025. The Permian basin has become one of the most productive oil fields in the world, Fig. (World Oil) – The media are reporting new predictions that oil production in America is in irreversible decline. The Texas success story.

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