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One year into the new administration, the "drill baby drill" mandate has collided with the one force more powerful than any executive order: capital discipline enforced by institutional investors. The political rhetoric was clear enough. Federal lease sales have resumed on public lands. Permitting processes have been directed

The Eagle Ford has been defying its obituary for half a decade. According to EIA Drilling Productivity Report data, the basin has held production in a band of approximately 1.1–1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day through 2024–2025, with minimal decline despite a rig count

NAPE Summit returned to Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center in late January 2026, and after two years of megadeal hangover, the upstream industry showed up with something it hadn't brought in a while: genuine curiosity about what comes next. The North American Prospect Expo is