Gazprom PJSC’s daily natural-gas sales to key foreign markets slipped to the lowest in three months in April as customers turned to cheaper supplies on the spot market amid mild weather and a wave of LNG. Europe has been importing record amounts of discounted liquefied natural gas on the back …
Read More »Oil Giants Exxon, Chevron Increase Spending amid Ukraine Crisis
ExxonMobil and Chevron have reported soaring profits despite lower oil and natural gas volumes as the petroleum giants return billions of dollars to shareholders in the wake of lofty crude prices and refining margins. Both US oil giants scored huge profit increases propelled by crude prices that rose after the …
Read More »CNOOC Denies Plans for $3 Billion UK North Sea Exit
CNOOC has brushed aside recent media reports that the firm is considering withdrawing from oilfield investments in the UK North Sea, the US and Canada. The Nikkei Asia financial publication said the Chinese national oil firm is not, contrary to reports, seeking to diminish its vulnerability to Western-led sanctions targeting …
Read More »Gazprom 2021 Annual Earnings Hit Record on Gas Price Rally
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom PJSC reported its highest-ever annual income for 2021, when natural gas prices soared during Europe’s worst energy crunch in decades. The producer benefited from a surge in gas prices as Europe, its largest export market, faced a severe energy deficit due to post-Covid recovery allied to …
Read More »EU Sanctions may Stall Work on Russian LNG Project
Technip Energies NV may have to considerably slow construction for Novatek PJSC’s Arctic LNG 2 project because of the latest European Union sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine. The prospect is a blow for Netherlands-based Technip and the Russian energy company, which is developing the giant export terminal for super-chilled …
Read More »Exxon Mobil may Completely Withdraw from Russia by 24 June
Exxon Mobil Corp is considering a complete withdrawal from Russia by 24 June, two sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Thursday (21 April), following the US oil major’s earlier decision to exit all operations in the country. Exxon Mobil has not provided a timetable for the withdrawal but …
Read More »China Oil Giant CNOOC Jumps 20% in First Mainland Trading
CNOOC Ltd. jumped 20% in its first day of trading in Shanghai as mainland investors jumped at the chance for exposure to soaring oil and gas prices. The company’s A-shares opened at 12.96 yuan ($2.02), after pricing at 10.80 yuan. China’s biggest offshore driller is raising 28 billion yuan ($4.3 …
Read More »Shell Starts Withdrawing Staff from Russia as Part of Exit Strategy
Shell has started to withdraw staff from its joint ventures with Russia’s Gazprom as it moves forward with plans to exit investments in response to the war in Ukraine. Dozens of Shell employees on temporary assignment at the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas export project in Russia were removed over the …
Read More »Gazprom Continues Gas Exports to Europe
Russian state-owned gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday at the pace of 74.6 million cubic metres per day, in accordance with requests from European consumers, the company said. This was in line with the 74.5 mcm reported earlier by Interfax news agency, …
Read More »Masdar to Develop Key Renewable Energy Projects in Kyrgyzstan
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed a MoU with the Kyrgyz Republic’s Ministry of Energy to explore the development of renewable energy opportunities in the Central Asian nation and support its clean-energy objectives. As per the agreement, Masdar will explore the development of …
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