Companies

Exxon Becomes World’s First Megamajor

ExxonMobil’s purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources is the largest upstream deal, in nominal terms, since Shell acquired BG for $82 billion in 2015 and makes ExxonMobil the world’s first megamajor. That’s according to Wood Mackenzie’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Research, Tom Ellacott, who added, in a statement sent to …

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QatarEnergy, Chevron Phillips Chemical Secure $4.4bn Financing for Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project

QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (CPChem) have secured $4.4bn financing for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals project, a world scale integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City. The senior debt financing package comprises commercial and Islamic facilities as well as Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing, QatarEnergy said Monday. The …

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Baker Hughes Lands Two Major Contracts in Norway

Nasdaq-listed oilfield services major Baker Hughes has been awarded two contracts by Norwegian operator Vår Energi, expanding its North Sea footprint in exploration logging, well intervention technology and subsea production systems. The first contract is a nine-year engagement for well intervention and exploration logging solutions to assist Vår Energi in …

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Gazprom Reports Gas Production Drop of 25%

The state-owned Russian energy company Gazprom has released figures showing that its gas production fell by 25%, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Sept. 28. The reporting period compares the first half of 2023 with the first half of 2022. Gazprom blamed the fall on “the adoption in a number …

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Equinor Enters Gas Supply Deal with Austria’s OMV

Equinor, an oil and gas company, has signed long-term gas supply deal with Austrian energy company OMV. Starting 1 October 2023, the five-year agreement will see Norway’s Equinor supply 12 terawatt-hour (TWh) of gas annually. Equinor said it will deliver the gas at the Trading Hub Europe in Germany. The …

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