Norwegian energy company Equinor has signed a five-year agreement to supply up to 0.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year to Dutch utility Eneco, Trend reports via Equinor. Deliveries to the Dutch gas grid began on 1 February. The gas supplied under the deal has a lower-than-average …
Read More »TotalEnergies Pushes Deeper into Namibia’s Offshore Oil Boom
TotalEnergies is expanding its exploration portfolio offshore Namibia with acreage north of a block where a major oil discovery has been made, as the supermajor looks to boost activity in the new global exploration hotspot. TotalEnergies on Friday announced it had signed agreements to buy a 42.5% operated interest in …
Read More »Eni Expects very Finely Balanced LNG Market this Year
Contrary to forecasts of an LNG supply glut as soon as this year, Italy’s energy major Eni expects a “very finely balanced” market in 2026 as European demand is set to remain high after the winter to fill depleted inventories, and Asian consumption is expected to rebound with softer prices. …
Read More »Equinor Slashes 2026 Buybacks as Low Oil Prices Persist
Equinor slashed the amount of share repurchases for 2026 to $1.5 billion from $5 billion last year while it narrowly missed earnings estimates for the fourth quarter of 2025, as higher upstream production couldn’t offset the lower oil and gas prices. The Norwegian major on Wednesday reported adjusted operating income …
Read More »Shell Sees LNG Sector Growing by 3% Per Year
The global LNG market is expanding by 3% every year, growing at a faster pace than the overall natural gas market, Wael Sawan, chief executive officer of the world’s top LNG trader, Shell, said at an LNG conference in Doha, Qatar. Both supply and demand of LNG have surged in …
Read More »Equinor Exits Vaca Muerta with $1.1 Billion Sale to Vista Energy
Equinor will sell all its assets in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta basin to Vista Energy in a cash and stock deal worth $1.1 billion, the Norwegian energy major said on Monday as it continues to high-grade its international portfolio. The deal includes Equinor’s 30% non-operated interest in the Bandurria Sur asset …
Read More »Exxon Beats Expectations as Record Production Offsets Lower Oil Prices
Despite lower oil prices, ExxonMobil booked higher-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter as quarterly production in the Permian basin and offshore Guyana set new records. Exxon reported on Friday earnings excluding identified items of $7.3 billion for the fourth quarter, or $1.71 per share. This beat the analyst consensus estimate …
Read More »Malaysia’s Petronas to Boost Exploration to Maintain Domestic Output
Malaysia’s Petronas plans to boost exploration, deepwater development, and enhanced oil recovery over the next three years as it looks to maintain its domestic oil and gas production stable at about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), the state energy giant said in its 2026-2028 activity outlook …
Read More »TotalEnergies Pushes ahead with Mozambique LNG despite Risks
After a five-year hiatus, French supermajor TotalEnergies is formally relaunching on Thursday the $20-billion Mozambique LNG project at an event led by Mozambique’s President Daniel Francisco Chapo and attended by TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné. At the end of last year, TotalEnergies lifted the four-year-long force majeure on the Mozambique LNG …
Read More »Chevron Keeps Venezuelan Oil Flowing as Asia Shipments Stall
Venezuela’s beleaguered oil export system is narrowing rapidly around Chevron as shipments to its largest traditional customer in China remain stalled amid an intensified U.S. oil embargo and mounting geopolitical upheaval. Shipping data as of January 6 shows crude loading for Chinese buyers at Venezuelan ports has been on hold …
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