(Oil Price) – Saudi oil giant Aramco has issued a $4-billion bond as it tapped the debt market for the first time this year amid persistently weak oil prices in the low $60s per barrel. Aramco, the world’s top crude exporter and biggest international oil company, on Monday announced the start of issuing U.S.-dollar denominated international bonds under its Global Medium Term Note
(BOE Report) – Investment firm Kimmeridge plans to nominate former Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield to Coterra Energy’s board, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Kimmeridge has said Coterra’s board must reassess its leadership structure and appoint an independent, non-executive chair, the report said, adding that it expects to nominate four
(World Oil) – Equatorial Guinea, OPEC’s smallest member, has turned to commodity trading companies for prepayment deals on oil and liquefied natural gas to help finance a revival of domestic hydrocarbon production. The Central African nation is looking for $300 million in return for deliveries of crude oil and LNG spread over multiple years, according to people familiar with the matter,
(Investing) – Oil prices could see further upside in 2026 as geopolitical risks continue to drive volatility, HSBC says, though the bank adds that underlying market fundamentals should limit rallies and keep prices anchored in the mid-$60s range. As such, HSBC maintained its Brent crude forecast at $65 a barrel for 2026 and beyond, despite heightened tensions across several major producing regions. The
(BOE Report) – Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Thursday that she was submitting a proposal to reform the country’s hydrocarbon law, as investors in the U.S. push for easier access to the South American country’s oil industry. Rodriguez said the reforms would “allow these investment flows to be incorporated into new fields, fields where no investment has ever
(Oil Price) – At the start of the year, sentiment in the oil market was overwhelmingly and deeply bearish. Most forecasts pointed to a glut, and a sizable one at that. Then the U.S. struck Venezuela, took its acting president to stand trial in the U.S., and threatened Iran, Mexico, and Colombia that they were next. Protests broke out in Iran.
(Oil Price) – Brent Crude prices have the potential to hit $70 per barrel over the next three months amid heightened geopolitical risks, according to analysts at Citi. The investment bank raised its 0-3 month outlook on Brent Crude prices to $70 per barrel from $65 a barrel previously, due to upside pressure from geopolitical risks. Early on Wednesday, Brent Crude traded 1%
(World Oil) – 1776 Energy, a portfolio company of Quantum Capital Group, has closed the sale of its South Texas oil and gas assets to Silver Hill Energy Partners, continuing consolidation activity in the mature Eagle Ford shale. The transaction includes approximately 17,500 net acres and an estimated 550 gross drilling locations primarily across Karnes and Gonzales counties, Texas. The assets are prospective across
(BOE Report) – If record-high U.S. stock prices accurately reflect investors’ assessment of the first year of Trump 2.0, then it’s a glowing scorecard for the most interventionist government in decades. It’s yet another example of the topsy-turvy economic world where the global norms and orthodoxies of the last 40 years are being questioned and sometimes discarded by the U.S.
(BOE Report) – Global oil trading houses have emerged as early winners in the race to control Venezuelan crude flows, getting ahead of U.S. energy majors wary of credit and legal risks and securing a potentially lucrative business opportunity in the country with the world’s largest crude reserves. U.S. President Donald Trump said U.S. majors would invest billions of dollars
(BOE Report) – U.S. oil executives being summoned to the White House on Friday to discuss potential investment plans in Venezuela will be carefully weighing the country’s business potential and enthusiasm from President Donald Trump with a more cautious sentiment being expressed by some of their investors. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, speaking at a Goldman Sachs energy conference in
(Investing) – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices are set to come under sustained pressure in 2026 as the market absorbs the largest supply wave in the industry’s history, Bernstein analysts said in a note published on Friday. Analysts led by Neil Beveridge forecast global LNG demand to rise to around 441 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) in 2026, up about
