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SM Energy Slows the Drill Bit in 2025: What the Data Tells Us About Permian Rig Reductions

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The company started the year with 9 active rigs , scaled back to 7 rigs by the end of Q1 , and plans to operate just 6 rigs for the remainder of the year. SM Energys Drilling Trends: January 2023 to May 2025 Using public drilling data for SM Energy wells in Texas, we grouped spud activity by month from January 2023 onward. August 16 6.3

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ExxonMobil Hits 1,000 Wells in the Delaware Basin

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ExxonMobil has reached a major milestone: 1,000 horizontal wells drilled in the New Mexico portion of the Delaware Basin just seven years after the first spud in 2017. Longer Laterals : Successful four-mile laterals at Poker Lake , reducing surface land disturbance and operational footprint.

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Canada BC Oil & Gas: A Growing Backlog of Undrilled Well Permits

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Some of the provinces most active operators are also those with the largest number of undrilled permits. Other notable operators include Pacific Canbriam Energy and ARC Resources , which also show significant gaps between licensing and spudding. Want to know which operators and fields are sitting on the largest permit backlogs?

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U.S. Shale’s Superpower Isn’t Geology — It’s Consistency

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Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips Operators are drilling fewer wells, but doing so with purposeon multi-well pads, with simul-frac designs and AI-enhanced execution. Operators have tens of thousands of drilling locations that remain profitable even with WTI at or below $40. Its a factory model. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil Our U.S.

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