Exxon has warned that its third-quarter earnings would likely be affected by lower oil prices, with the impact in the range of $600 million to $1 billion. In an SEC filing, the supermajor also estimated the effect of lower refining margins on its third-quarter earnings at up to $1 billion. …
Read More »Petrobras Announces Huge Gas Discovery in Colombia
Petroleum giant Petrobras announced Thursday the discovery of natural gas deposits in Colombia that could double the South American country’s known reserves even as it seeks to transition away from hydrocarbons. But it also coincides with a government drive to stop extracting fossil fuels as it transitions to a low-carbon …
Read More »UAE’s Oil Giant ADNOC to Buy Chemicals Firm Covestro in $16-Billion Deal
Following a year of negotiations, Abu Dhabi’s oil company ADNOC has agreed to buy Germany’s chemicals giant Covestro in a deal worth $16.3 billion (14.7 billion euros) including debt, the German group said on Tuesday. ADNOC will make a takeover offer at $68.86 (62.00 euros) per Covestro share, which is …
Read More »TotalEnergies Set to Make $10B Investment Decision Offshore Suriname
TotalEnergies is preparing to make a $10-billion-plus final investment decision for a massive oil and gas development project offshore Suriname, as the French giant eyes Exxon’s success in maritime neighbor Guyana, Reuters reported on Monday, exclusively, citing unnamed sources. Earlier this month, TotalEnergies announced the launch of development studies for …
Read More »TotalEnergies Boosts U.S. Natural Gas Business with Eagle Ford Assets
TotalEnergies on Friday announced a deal to buy a 45% stake in dry gas-producing assets owned and operated by Lewis Energy Group in the Eagle Ford basin in Texas, growing its gas production business and boosting its LNG portfolio. The assets that TotalEnergies is buying are located in Southwest Texas …
Read More »Saudi Aramco Looks to Raise $3 Billion from New Bond Issue
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is looking to raise up to $3 billion from U.S.-dollar denominated Islamic bonds, Reuters reported on Tuesday, quoting sources with direct knowledge of the plans. Aramco, which is also the world’s single biggest crude oil exporter, plans to issue Islamic bonds, the so-called …
Read More »Shell Abandons Norway’s Hydrogen Projects due to Lack of Demand
Shell Plc has ditched plans to build a low-carbon hydrogen plant on Norway’s west coast due to a lack of demand, Reuters reported on Monday. “We haven’t seen the market for blue hydrogen materialize and decided not to progress the project,” a Shell spokesperson has told Reuters. Shell’s announcement comes …
Read More »TotalEnergies Starts Natural Gas Production from Argentinian Offshore Field
French supermajor TotalEnergies announced on Friday the start of natural gas production from the Fenix gas field offshore in southern Argentina. The Fenix field has been developed to have a production capacity of 10 million cubic meters per day, or 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, (boe/d). The field, …
Read More »Rosneft Unlikely to Stop Shell’s Sale of German Refinery Stake
Rosneft is likely to fail in its legal challenge against a planned sale of a minority stake in a German refinery that it used to control before Germany took over the Russian oil giant’s assets in the country. Rosneft has a 54% stake in the Schwedt refinery, the fourth-largest refinery …
Read More »Aramco’s New Deals with China Signal a Further Deepening of Sino-Saudi Relations
A little under a year before the Russian invasion of February 2022, Saudi Aramco’s chief executive officer, Amin Nasser, had spent several days at the annual China Development Forum hosted in Beijing, during which time he stated: “Ensuring the continuing security of China’s energy needs remains our highest priority – …
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