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Recent Examples of drillerThe setup The Sugar Land, Texas offshore oil driller’s stock is relatively flat over the last 12 months, but up more than 20% in 2026 and on the verge of a major breakout.—Jay Woods, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026 By the second week of December, the driller reached a depth of 1,450 feet and struck oil sands.—David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026 The driller responsible for it, Patton Exploration, solicited companies to extend a pipeline to the oil well to capture the gas and evaluated whether the gas could be used to mine bitcoin.—ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025 The new company, called Caturus, is a tie up of two Kimmeridge investments — a Louisiana liquefied natural gas export project called Commonwealth LNG, plus the fast-growing natural gas driller Kimmeridge Texas Gas.—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Even in the United States, his student turned assistant Henry LeTang became the tap teacher to hundreds, from starlets needing tailoring to the great Gregory Hines.
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Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
The bill, which was supported by nurses, teachers, construction workers and service employees in Connecticut, is one of the biggest victories for organized labor in the state in recent years.