Saturday, July 5, 2025

Tesla CEO Musk loses $1 billion as oil, gasoline prices drop

Story by Petro Global News Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has seen his fortune take a billion dollar hit since November as slumping oil prices lower demand for alternative energy and electric cars. Musk owns 28 million shares in electric car company Tesla Motors and almost 21 million shares in rooftop solar panel installer SolarCity, where he also serves as

Comstock Resources, Inc. Announces 2015 Exploration and Development Budget

Comstock Resources, Inc. (“Comstock” or the “Company”) (CRK) announced that it has budgeted $307 million in 2015 for its drilling and completion activities.  In response to low oil prices, the Company plans to suspend its oil directed drilling activity in its Eagle Ford shale properties in South and East Texas and in the Tuscaloosa Marine shale in Mississippi.  Comstock has

Cheniere and EDP Sign 20-Year LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement

Cheniere Energy, Inc. (“Cheniere”) (NYSE MKT: LNG) announced today that its subsidiary, Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC (“Corpus Christi Liquefaction”), has entered into a liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) sale and purchase agreement (“SPA”) with EDP Energias de Portugal S.A. (“EDP”) under which EDP has agreed to purchase approximately 0.77 million tonnes per annum (“mtpa”) of LNG upon the commencement of operations

Saratoga Resources Provides Update on Operations and Cost Cutting Measures

Saratoga Resources, Inc. (NYSE MKT:SARA; the “Company” or “Saratoga”) today provided an update on results of recent operations and measures being taken to reduce costs and enhance operational efficiencies in the current challenging environment with oil prices declining to five year lows. The Company has successfully completed several thru-tubing plugback operations with total capital expenditure of approximately $400,000 with initial

Synergy Resources Corporation Provides an Operations Update, Estimating 100% Year-Over-Year Production Growth, and a Revised Fiscal 2015 Capital Forecast

Synergy Resources Corporation (NYSE MKT: SYRG) (“Synergy,” the “Company”), a U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company with operations focused in the Greater Wattenberg Area in the D-J Basin, announces that its Fiscal 2015 capital forecast now includes the $75 million cash payment for the recently closed Wattenberg Field acquisition and incorporates changes in the completion design for future wells. Excluding the

Natural Gas Roundup for the Week Ended December 12, 2014

NATURAL GAS INVENTORY (Week Ended 12/05/14) Current: 3,295 Bcf Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): (64) Bcf Economist Average Estimate: (61) Bcf Previous: 3,359 Bcf Click here for the chart with five year averages. Click here for an archive of EnerCom’s Inventory Reports ANALYST COMMENTARY **All notes from 12/18/14** KLR Group Storage overview The EIA reported a 64 Bcf storage draw, 2 Bcf above our 62 Bcf

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Upstream MLPs Getting the Worst of Commodity Downturn

Down more than 50% Year to Date Oil and gas companies are tightening the purse strings for 2015, as several news releases on guidance are showing capex declines of 20% or more. Commodity hedges may protect most companies from further capital deterioration for the time being, but repercussions from the oil price collapse will be truly felt once the hedge

Ruble Crumbles as Putin Offers Reassurances

President Putin says the economic downturn will reverse, even as the ruble continues to slide During his annual press conference, which lasted three hours this year, President Putin offered reassurances that Russia’s economic downturn would be remedied, even as the exchange rate on the ruble continued to drop. The ruble has fallen about 45% against the dollar this year, with