From Reuters Harris County, Texas sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday over pollution from a fire a day earlier at the company’s Baytown Olefins Plant, according to an attorney for the county. The fire was being investigated by federal and state agencies. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) were at
From Reuters Seven years ago, Diamondback Energy Inc went public with a modest parcel of drillable land in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Like dozens of other Permian startups, the firm then pursued a classic wildcatter’s strategy – borrowing to buy up acreage, acquire competitors and quickly boost output in the booming shale field. Today, Diamondback (FANG.O) is the
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 German E&P Wintershall Dea teams up with ConocoPhillips to develop Argentina’s Neuquén Basin Wintershall Dea, a German-based E&P with a global asset portfolio, has signed a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with ConocoPhillips (stock ticker: COP) to jointly develop the Aguada Federal and Bandurria Norte blocks in the central Argentine province
From The Houston Chronicle As the sweet spots of the booming Permian Basin are drilled, oil companies will need to either spend more money or consider mergers and acquisitions to keep up their crude production volumes, according to the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. The conundrum is that Wall Street is punishing the stocks of public energy companies that increase
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 The staggering size of Aramco: Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company In 1933, the government of Saudi Arabia signed a concession agreement with the Standard Oil Company of California, creating an entity known as the California Arabian Standard Oil Company. Two years later, drilling began, and in 1938, famed geologist Max Steineke
From Reuters Major Canadian oil companies, which publicly disagreed over the Alberta government’s forced curtailments this year, are in lockstep over how to end the production limits and reinvigorate the battered industry. Senior executives from Suncor Energy, Canadian Natural Resources, Imperial Oil Ltd and Cenovus Energy said at a TD Securities investor conference in Calgary on Tuesday that they are
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Alaska Gasline Development Corporation receives FERC input for large proposed gas export project Last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s Alaska LNG project, concluding that construction and operation would result in temporary, long-term and permanent impacts on the
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 W&T Offshore to purchase Gulf of Mexico interests from ExxonMobil for $200 million W&T Offshore, Inc. (stock ticker: WTI), a Houston-based independent E&P, has entered into a sales and purchase agreement with ExxonMobil to acquire the company’s interests located off the coast of Alabama in the Gulf of Mexico. The transaction,
From Bloomberg Argentine shale formation sees first crude and LNG shipments, drillers still face many infrastructure, political challenges Along the western edge of Argentina’s Patagonia, on an arid steppe nestled against the Andes mountains, lies a shale formation known as the Vaca Muerta. And ever since engineers confirmed what an American geologist suspected a century ago — that the Vaca
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Riverstone Credit-backed company adds 6.5 million barrels of crude storage capacity Converge Midstream LLC, a crude oil storage and transportation company backed by Riverstone Credit Partners, has completed the acquisition of assets being sold off by Fairway Energy Partners, LLC as part of its chapter 11 restructuring. Fairway, after filing a
ExxonMobil to proceed with long-term development, two-phase attack in South American shale play Tuesday morning, ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM) announced its plans to proceed with the long-term development of its assets in the Vaca Muerta basin in Argentina’s Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block. The project is to include 90 wells, a central production facility, and export infrastructure connected to the
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Partnership seeks to redevelop offshore asset ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM) has entered into a production sharing agreement with Angola’s recently established National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels in order to further invest in the country’s offshore Block 15. Exxon’s Angola assets as of year end 2018 (source: Exxon 2018 financial
