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Petrobras plans to pay ordinary dividends totaling $45 billion-$55 billion by 2029, with room for additional extraordinary distributions to shareholders in the period, the Brazilian state oil and gas giant said in the presentation of its five-year business plan. “Robust free cash flow allows for solid dividend estimates, projecting US$ …

BP has struck a deal to develop a natural gas field in Indonesia, complete with a carbon capture system. The deal’s value is seen at $7 billion, with resources to be tapped estimated at 3 trillion cubic feet. “This project not only unlocks a fantastic gas resource, it also represents …

Saudi Aramco plans to regularly tap the bond market for debt issuance as it looks to optimize capital structure and widen its investor base, Ziad Al-Murshed, chief financial officer of the world’s biggest oil firm, told Bloomberg in an interview. “You’ll see us do a couple of things. One is, …

Exxon, Hess, and CNOOC plan to add a fourth production vessel to the ones already operating in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, Hess Corp.’s CEO has said, as quoted by Reuters. The floating production, storage, and offloading vessel should reach its destination in the first quarter of next year, John …

Brazil’s Petrobras plans to spend $111 billion in the five years between 2025 and 2029, with $77 billion of this total earmarked for oil and gas exploration and production activities, Reuters reported, citing a securities filing. The new spending figure is $10 billion higher than an earlier version of the …

Austria appears to be still receiving some Russian gas two days after the country’s integrated energy company, OMV, declared it would stop paying Gazprom to offset a 230 million-euro ($242 million) arbitration award by the International Chamber of Commerce over a previous gas cut-off. According to Reuters, gas flows from …

Sinopec Corp said on Monday that the company and Saudi Aramco have started constructing a refinery and petrochemical complex in southeast China’s Fujian province. The new venture includes a 16 million metric ton-per-year (tpy), or 320,000 barrels per day refinery, a 1.5 million tpy ethylene plant, a 2 million paraxylene …

Russia’s Gazprom PJSC has decided to play its favorite game: pipeline politics. Starting November 16, Austria is off the guest list for Russian natural gas, following a €230 million ($242 million) arbitration spat between Gazprom and Austria’s OMV AG. OMV, refusing to let that cash slip away, decided to withhold …

European oil and gas supermajors BP, Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies are committing a joint investment of $500 million to help ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. The joint investment commitment is part of the energy majors’ efforts to support promising, high-impact projects, primarily in Sub-Saharan …

Saudi oil giant Aramco on Tuesday reported a 15.4% drop in third-quarter profit due to lower crude prices and weaker refining margins, but maintained its generous dividend at $31.1 billion for the quarter. Aramco posted net income of $27.6 billion in the three months to Sept. 30, which still beat …