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Recovery of the upstream oil and gas business in Texas continued for a
fifth consecutive month in April, recording its first year-over-year
increase in 27 months, according to the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers’ Texas Petro Index (TPI).

Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., has implemented additional workforce reductions in an effort to cut expenses.

Recovery of the upstream oil and gas business in Texas continued for a
fifth consecutive month in April, recording its first year-over-year
increase in 27 months, according to the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers’ Texas Petro Index (TPI).

The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 20-3 to
refer the nominations of Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson as US
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission members to the full Senate for
final approval. The June 6 action brought resto…

Scotland’s government has contributed £50,000 to a project designed to preserve offshore oil and gas knowledge and experience otherwise lost to industry slumps.

Former Louisiana state official Scott A. Angelle has been named director of the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, effective May 23.

Chisholm Energy Holdings LLC, a Fort Worth startup backed by a $500-million line-of-equity from private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, has acquired acreage in Eddy and Lea counties of New Mexico from an undisclosed private seller.

Carol Crowfoot and Mark Taylor have been appointed by the Alberta Energy Regulator to its executive leadership team.

About 35% of the total workforce of the world’s top 50 oil field
services companies was laid off during 2014-16, research from oil and
gas consulting service Rystad Energy shows. That amounts to around 300,000 employees.

Just 41% of oil and gas chief executive officers from around the world plan to increase headcounts at their companies, and 27% plan to decrease headcounts, according to PwC LLP’s 20th CEO survey.