Companies

Gazprom Expands Eastern Gas Production, Pipelines

Gazprom is ramping up production and pipeline transmission from its Eastern Gas program. Commercial A+B+C1+C2 gas reserves within Gazprom’s licensed areas in Eastern Siberia and the Far East exceed 5 trillion cu m (tcm). Gazprom is ramping up production and pipeline transmission from its Eastern Gas program. Commercial A+B+C1+C2 gas …

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Saudi Wealth Fund Buys Stakes in European Energy Companies

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has built up stakes in European oil firms, including about $200 million in Equinor ASA, as the kingdom navigates the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting crude prices. The Public Investment Fund amassed shares in Norway’s largest producer mostly through the open market last week, according to …

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Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed to Fail

The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the collapse of the OPEC+ agreement and bringing about an unexpectedly low pricing environment for March 2020 within both the oil and gas segments. Having launched …

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Shell Lowers 2020 Capex

British oil major Shell joined other companies in the sector in lowering capital expenditure for the current year by about $5 billion and suspended the next tranche of its share buyback plan to weather a hit from the recent oil price crash. The company said it would reduce 2020 cash …

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