Reuters DUBAI/ABU DHABI – Saudi Arabia’s wealthy Gulf neighbors plan to invest in the initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco, sources familiar with the matter said, helping out Riyadh as it strives to raise $25.6 billion from a domestic listing of the state oil giant. Aramco has struggled to secure an anchor investor for the listing and found little
Reuters HOUSTON – Three workers were injured in an early morning explosion on Wednesday that sparked a blaze at a Texas petrochemical plant, the latest in a series of chemical plant accidents in the region. An initial explosion at a TPC Group plant in Port Neches, Texas, was followed by secondary blasts, shattering windows and blowing locked doors off their
Houston Chronicle The U.S. Gulf of Mexico is expected to set another oil production record in 2020 with most of the growth coming from deep water projects, according to a new study. Average production next year is expected to exceed 1.9 million barrels a day, according to the Norwegian-based energy research and consulting firm Rystad Energy. Oil production in the
Reuters U.S. energy producers plan to slash spending for a second straight year in 2020 as companies struggle to extract profits from the U.S. shale boom. While U.S. crude output hit a record 13 million barrels per day (bpd) this month, U.S. oil companies have struggled to deliver consistent profits. That is in part due to their success – higher
Reuters LONDON- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies face stiffening competition in 2020, the International Energy Agency said on Friday, adding urgency to the oil producer group’s policy meeting next month. “The OPEC+ countries face a major challenge in 2020 as demand for their crude is expected to fall sharply,” the Paris-based agency said in a
Houston Chronicle Activist investor Carl Icahn said Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s new target for assets sales won’t be achieved without a “fire sale” that includes its pipeline system, Western Midstream Partners LP, which was already shopped to potential buyers earlier this year. Occidental’s Chief Executive Officer Vicki Hollub said Wednesday in a statement she was “highly confident” the company will exceed
Reuters: OPEC said on Thursday it expected demand for its oil to fall in 2020 as rivals pumped more despite a smaller surplus of crude in the global market, building a case for the group to maintain supply curbs when it meets to discuss policy next month. In its last monthly report before the Dec. 5-6 talks, OPEC said demand
Reuters: Abu Dhabi National Oil Co aims to exhaust its vast oil and gas reserves even as many consumers switch to cleaner sources of energy, a senior executive in the Gulf oil company said. The world’s transition away from fossil fuel in an effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions is expected to accelerate in coming decades, leaving many oil companies
Source: Reuters CARLSBAD, New Mexico (Reuters) – In the southeast corner of New Mexico, new houses, hotels and jobs are sprouting like flowers in the desert. Trucks hauling equipment and laborers jam once-barren highways on the way to thousands of oil rigs. The Democrats who control the state’s government have lofty plans for the billions of dollars in projected
Source: Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco officials and advisers are holding last-minute meetings with investors in an attempt to achieve as close to a $2 trillion valuation as possible ahead of an expected listing launch on Sunday, according to three sources. Failure to reach the coveted target would cause a dilemma for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman –
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Investors are bracing for weaker results from U.S. shale players in coming days as lower oil and natural gas prices and cost-cutting measures have weighed on third-quarter operations. Major shale producers ConocoPhillips (COP.N) and Concho Resources (CXO.N) this week kick off quarterly earnings reports for a group whipsawed this year by volatile pricing and investor demands
Houston Chronicle The raging Kincade fire in northern California has damaged and knocked some of Calpine’s The Geysers power plants offline. Houston-based Calpine operates the world’s largest geothermal power complex in Sonoma and Lake counties in California. The fire originated near the complex’s 45 square miles where more than a dozen geothermal plants generate electricity from naturally occurring steam underground.
