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The Iraqi Ministry of Oil confirmed on Saturday the finalization of a settlement agreement with ExxonMobil, paving the way for the American energy giant’s departure from the West Qurna 1 oil field. Simultaneously, the ministry announced that Chinese company PetroChina would assume the field’s leading operator role. Hassan Muhammad, deputy …

Democratic Senators, led by Chuck Schumer, have called for an investigation into ExxonMobil’s $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and Chevron’s $53 billion purchase of Hess Corporation, citing potential antitrust violations. The lawmakers are concerned that these transactions could disrupt competition, increase gasoline prices, and have negative effects on …

Oil majors – ExxonMobil and Chevron have reportedly taken steps to intensify their oil and gas investments despite calls for a global clean energy transition. Exxon’s $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer and Chevron’s deal to buy Hess for $53 billion have made global headlines this month. These purchases show …

ExxonMobil and Chevron have just announced mega acquisition deals to buy U.S. firms, which will boost the footprint of the U.S. oil supermajors in their domestic upstream market and the hottest exploration success of the past few years, Guyana. Betting on expectations of sustained global oil and gas demand and …

The European Union’s plans to include natural gas pipeline projects that could be converted to carry hydrogen in the EU’s multi-billion-euro program for subsidies to crucial infrastructure projects is support for major fossil gas producers, environmental organizations say. The EU is set to debate and decide in the coming weeks …

Three years ago, oil prices dipped below zero and Scott Sheffield’s company — like so many other producers — was in trouble. The long-time oil man had built Pioneer Natural Resources Co. from a family-run domestic driller into one of the largest acreage holders in the Permian Basin, a massive …

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 …

Exxon is in talks to acquire Pioneer Natural Resources in a deal that could be worth up to $60 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed sources. This would be the biggest deal for Exxon since the merger with Mobil back in the 1990s and would make the …

After uncertainty earlier in the year, as Egypt came to rely heavily on Israel for its gas imports, the North African state finally seems to be getting its oil and gas industry back on track. A planned expansion of its Zohr gas field and new exploration projects are expected to …

Exxon will boost crude oil production in Nigeria by an additional 40,000 barrels per day, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement on Tuesday. Nigeria has long had aspirations for increasing its crude oil production, most recently promising to boost production to 1.7 million barrels per …