#oil-industry

#oil-industry

Landman might hook viewers at first with its all-star cast, but the Texas oil drama starring Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Elliott, and Demi Moore really hits its stride every time the series tackles the real-life dangers of working on an oil rig. Creator Taylor Sheridan first explored the risky job in the season 1 premiere when a pipe explosion shockingly killed three oil patch workers. Ever since then, the Paramount+ series has explored every facet of the hazardous industry.

Oil and masculinity: both are oftentimes crude, both are considered toxic in the twenty-first century. So it only makes sense that the two are as tightly bound as a bolt on a rig in "Landman," the latest hit series from the neo-Western television auteur Taylor Sheridan, on Paramount+. At the center of the show is Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton), a grizzled and cynical but ultimately good-hearted consigliere to a reckless oil-field billionaire, Monty Miller (Jon Hamm).

The Niger Delta, which produces the crude that earned Nigeria 80 percent of its foreign revenues, teemed with gun-carrying soldiers from the military dictatorship of the feared General Sani Abacha.

Ukura Midar, forced from his family's house for an airport, laments the loss of his land and the severance from family graves, stating, "Here, I feel bad. There I felt very fine. I had my land."

BP's ongoing underperformance and strategic missteps render it an attractive takeover target, particularly given Shell's historic interest and potential cost-efficiencies.

Strathcona Resources Ltd. is making a takeover offer for MEG Energy Corp. valued at $5.9 billion, despite a previous rejection by MEG's board.

The Trans Mountain Pipeline has downgraded its flow forecasts, highlighting industry tension over rising toll costs and the impact on oil exports from Western Canada.

The two largest U.S. oil companies reported their lowest first-quarter profits in years as they brace for the economic fallout from President Trump's trade war.