ExxonMobil and Chevron could gain access to Algeria’s vast natural gas resources as the U.S. supermajors are in advanced talks for exploration and production deals in the North African country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, quoting sources with knowledge of the talks and Algerian Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab. …
Read More »Chevron Expands Footprint in East Med Natural Gas Basin
U.S. oil and gas giant Chevron is looking to explore for natural gas off the coasts of Cyprus, Egypt, and Israel as the region’s energy demands grow. In a lease tender issued on Monday, the company is seeking a drilling vessel for 2024 with an option to extend its use …
Read More »Chevron to Spend $15bn on Growth, New Energy Business
Oil major, Chevron Corporation, has said, it is leveraging on its progress to leverage its strengths to safely deliver lower carbon energy to a growing world at its annual investor meeting. Chevron also expects to maintain capital and cost discipline to deliver higher returns while growing energy supplies. Under the …
Read More »Big Oil Saw Record $199Bn Profits in 2022 but 2023 will be Different
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, and BP reaped almost $200 billion collectively last year but fears of an economic slowdown, plunging natural gas prices, cost inflation and uncertainty over China’s re-opening are dimming the outlook for 2023. The five companies are expected to report $198.7 billion in combined 2022 profit in …
Read More »Qatar and Chevron Sign Major Petrochemical Deal
The state-owned QatarEnergy announced Monday an agreement with the US petrochemical giant Chevron Phillips Chemical to build a petrochemical facility. QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical will build a $6 billion complex in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City. To this end, the two companies created the joint venture Ras Laffan Petrochemicals. …
Read More »Exxon and Chevron Set for Record $100 Billion in Profits in 2022
The surge in oil and gas prices will translate into record-high 2022 earnings for the two U.S. supermajors, Exxon and Chevron, with their combined yearly profits hitting nearly $100 billion, analysts say. The two oil and gas giants benefited from the soaring price of oil and gas following the Russian …
Read More »Chevron Sending Two Oil Tankers to Venezuela under U.S. Approval
U.S. oil company Chevron Corp is sending two oil tankers to Venezuela, one of which will load the first cargo of crude destined for the United States in nearly four years, according to a person familiar with the matter and shipping data. On Friday, a Chevron-chartered vessel approached the South …
Read More »Chevron Sending Tanker to Venezuela to Load Oil
U.S. oil company Chevron has a tanker on the way to sanctioned Venezuela, where it will pick up a load of crude oil destined for the United States. The crude cargo will be the first Venezuelan crude oil shipment to arrive in the United States in almost four years, according …
Read More »Big Oil Betting Billions on Global ‘Climate Catastrophe’
The world’s biggest oil producers are spending billions of dollars on fossil fuel projects that will only be needed if the world misses key climate goals, according to Carbon Tracker, a nonprofit think tank. Companies invested $58 billion in oil and gas projects in 2021 and 2022 that will only …
Read More »Chevron to Take over Venezuelan Oil Project this Week
Chevron will officially assume control of an oil project in Venezuela this week, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources. The supermajor will process heavy crude at the Petropiar facility, called an upgrader, and then export it to refiners on the U.S. Gulf Coast after the Treasury Department granted Chevron an …
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