Tag Archives: Exxon Mobil Corporation

QatarEnergy has signed an agreement with ExxonMobil to farm into an exploration license offshore the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, it said on October 24. The transaction has received all necessary consents from the Canada- Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB). According to the agreement, QatarEnergy will …

Saudi Basic Industries Corp., majority owned by Saudi Aramco, said Sept. 19 that its petrochemical joint venture with ExxonMobil near Corpus Christi, Texas, started commissioning ahead of its expected fourth-quarter start-up. The Sept. 19 confirmation follows a tour of the facility in August when the plant manager, Paul Fritsch, said …

The world’s largest listed oil companies will have to cut production by at least 50 per cent over the next decade if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees as per the Paris climate accord, influential climate think tank Carbon Tracker has warned. In a new report, …

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum plan on drilling for gas in an offshore block towards the end of the year, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou has said. In an interview with daily Politis, the minister said the two companies planned on drilling an appraisal well in block 10 where natural gas was …

Turkish authorities have shared data on its Black Sea discovery with a duo of U.S. energy majors with possible gas extraction cooperation in mind. Turkey shared its data with Chevron and ExxonMobil regarding its 540 billion cubic-meter Sakarya gas field in the Black Sea, an official with knowledge of the …

Dissident shareholders of ExxonMobil have won two seats on the company’s board of directors. The election “will likely force it to alter its fossil-fuel focused strategy and more directly confront growing shareholder concerns about climate change,” according to The Wall Street Journal. Fossil fuels are probably on the decline long-term, …

The five largest oil and gas companies recorded a cumulative revenue of $1.14 trillion in 2020, representing a loss of about 30.9% or $500 billion from the 2019 figure of $1.65 trillion, according to data acquired by Finbold. PetroChina’s last year revenue stood at $280.7 billion, a drop of 19.28% …

Oil giant ExxonMobil has received an offer for its share of the West Qurna 1 oilfield in Basra, by Iraq, according to reports by Reuters. The head of the state-run oil operating company said on Monday that a formal offer, priced at $350 million, to buy the share had been …

Press reports quote Iraq’s oil minister as saying that Iraq could buy ExxonMobil’s 32.7-percent stake in the West Qurna 1 oil field. Ihssan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail told a news conference on Monday that the government might purchase the stake via the state-owned Basra Oil Company (BOC). BOC previously took over the …

Iraq aims to finalize the sale of Exxon’s stake in the West Qurna-1 oil field by the end of June even after rival U.S. supermajor Chevron Corp. rejected overtures to buy the position. Basra Oil Co., the state-run company overseeing crude production in the region, may open talks with more …