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Oil majors rejigger portfolios with $30-per-barrel price in mind

Oil majors rejigger portfolios with $30-per-barrel price in mind

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HOUSTON – Oil majors are targeting new oilfields that can be profitable even if oil prices fall to about $30 per barrel, using a third year of rising demand to reshape portfolios amid uncertainty over the industry’s future.

Investors …

Source: Reuters

As oil majors cast shale nets, Texas oilman Sheffield made Pioneer the prized catch

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HOUSTON – Four years ago, Texas oilman Scott Sheffield saw the oil majors were moving aggressively into the top U.S. shale basin and plotted to make his then-$24 billion Pioneer Natural Resources PXD.N the oilfield’s biggest prize.

The CEO …

October 16, 2023 - 12:30 pm Uncategorized
Source: Oil Price

Oil majors pull out from Mexico exploration projects

Oil Price


Chevron and Spain’s Repsol have quit exploration at two offshore blocks in Mexico waters after early work suggested there are not enough resources to make it worthwhile to continue. The two had won the rights to explore the …

Source: Oil Price

Oil majors are succeeding in securing more gas from the Middle East

Oil Price


TotalEnergies, along with Italy’s Eni and the UK’s BP and Shell, have been at the vanguard of securing new oil and gas supplies for Europe to substitute for lost energy supplies from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine …

Source: Reuters

Oil majors expect Permian production growth to slow

Oil Price


Two Big Oil majors have said they expect oil production in the Permian to rise by less than they had initially planned this year, suggesting industry problems are indeed serious enough to hold back production growth in the …

Source: Oil Price

Oil major earnings will reignite the windfall taxes debate

Oil Price


Despite weaker oil prices during the third quarter, the oil industry is still booking strong financial results. According to some, this is “awkward” because it is happening during a time of economic hardship. Besides being awkward, however, Big …

Source: Reuters

Analysis: Oil majors face output slump, deep losses if Russia stops Kazakh pipeline

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LONDON -Western energy majors will cut output and lose billions of dollars if Russia, as is feared, suspends a pipeline that is almost the only export route for oil from land-locked Kazakhstan, company sources, traders and analysts say.…

Source: World Oil

Oil majors won’t ride to the rescue as world faces energy shortages

World Oil


HOUSTON (Bloomberg) –The world’s biggest energy companies are producing the most cash in years, but don’t expect them to spend it on bringing on fresh supplies of oil and natural gas to combat shortages in Europe and China …

Source: Reuters

Exclusive-Energy majors bid for Qatar LNG project despite lower returns

Houston Times


LONDON (Reuters) – Six high western power companies are vying to companion within the huge growth of Qatar’s liquefied output, business sources stated, serving to the Gulf state cement its place because the main LNG producer whereas a

June 14, 2021 - 12:00 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Crude Oil News, Energy News, LNG
Source: Reuters

Special Report-How oil majors shift billions in profits to island tax havens

Reuters


Bermuda and the Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world. They don’t produce any of the fuels at all. Yet the islands are deep wells of profit for European oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

In 2018 …

December 9, 2020 - 12:00 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Crude Oil News, Energy News, Finance
Source: Reuters

Big carbon? Oil majors turn to nature to help plug revenue gap

Reuters


LONDON – Oil companies such as BP and Shell are nurturing nature as a future revenue stream, betting on an expected rise in carbon credit prices as their fossil fuel profits ebb.

BP last year put $5 million into …

December 8, 2020 - 11:30 am Carbon Capture, Closing Bell Story‎, Crude Oil News, Energy News
Source: Reuters

Oil majors wipe $80 billion off books as epidemic, energy transition bite

Reuters


LONDON  – The world’s top energy companies have slashed the value of their oil and gas assets by around $80 billion (60.05 billion pounds) in recent months after revising lower the long-term outlook for fuel prices in the wake …

Source: CNBC

‘It is going to be brutal’: What to expect as oil and gas majors unveil their second-quarter results

CNBC


Oil and gas majors are likely to report “horrendous” second-quarter results over the next two weeks, energy analysts have told CNBC, with the three-month period through to the end of June widely expected to mark the “low point” of …

Source: Reuters

Oil majors, governments haggle over sharing pain of deepest cuts yet

Reuters


LONDON/MOSCOW – From Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to Nigeria and Angola, oil majors are haggling with national governments over how to share out deep production cuts that add to their pain from low oil prices and depressed fuel sales because …

Source: CNBC

Market bounce is an ‘aftershock’ with ‘pretty horrific’ earnings to come, Citi analyst says

CNBC


Global stock markets have started this week with a bounce, as hopes that the coronavirus pandemic may be peaking drove investors back into risk assets following a historic downturn.

However, Citi strategists have suggested that the rally is nothing …

Source: Reuters

Graphic: Oil majors cut 2020 spending by 22% after prices slump

Reuters


LONDON- The world’s biggest oil and gas companies are cutting spending this year following a collapse in oil prices driven by a slump in demand because of the coronavirus crisis and a price war between top exporters Saudi Arabia …

Source: Houston Chronicle

A sector in disarray’: Oil majors live beyond their means on investor payouts, study finds

Houston Chronicle


The largest oil and gas companies for years have lived beyond their means and paid more money to investors than they can reasonably afford, according to a new report.

The study from the Cleveland-based Institute for Energy Economics …

CNOOC Signs Strategic Agreements with 9 Oil Majors

CNOOC Signs Strategic Agreements with 9 Oil Majors

CNOOC Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreements with 9 International Oil Companies

Oil Majors Offload Singles and Doubles to Hunt Home Runs in Gulf

Oil Majors Offload Singles and Doubles to Hunt Home Runs in Gulf

From Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil is giving up looking for singles and doubles in the Gulf of Mexico: Now it’s home runs or bust.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s two biggest oil companies, have …

October 15, 2018 - 11:41 am Closing Bell Story‎, Exploration and Production (E&P)
To Keep Up, Majors Need to Spend $30 Billion in the Permian: IHS

To Keep Up, Majors Need to Spend $30 Billion in the Permian: IHS

From the Houston Chronicle

Oil majors led by Exxon Mobil and Chevron will need to bulk up their Permian Basin spending to meet their growth goals, triggering more consolidation and higher costs for oilfield services, according to a new report …

June 21, 2018 - 11:09 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News