Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Banks Becoming Increasingly Wary of Energy Defaults

Median Debt to EBITDA is 3.6 Times across 77 U.S. E&P Companies: EnerCom Analytics It happened when ‘lower for longer’ went from being a popular catch phrase to bitter reality. Today, bankruptcy has become an increasingly common word across the energy sector. Increasing federal oversight of oil and gas lending, decreasing cash flows and higher leverage ratios for oil and

More Loans from China — BOC Lends Gazprom $2.2 Billion

‘Sitting in Ambush’ for Russian Companies Bank of China has agreed to loan Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom (ticker: OGZPY) €2 billion ($2.17 billion). In the company’s press release, Gazprom said the loan was the largest deal in terms of the amount of financing attracted directly from one financial institution and the first bilateral loan facility agreement with a Chinese