The largest international oil and gas firms wrote down assets worth $150 billion last year when prices crashed with the demand slump in the pandemic. Despite the fact that this year’s oil prices are now nearly double compared to the 2020 average, the energy industry faces additional impairments in the …
Read More »ExxonMobil to Proceed with China Mega Chemical Project Investment
US energy giant ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision on a multi-billion-dollar chemical complex in Guangdong province in southern China. The greenfield project includes a 1.6m tonne/year flexible feed steam cracker, three performance polyethylene (PE) lines, and two differentiated performance polypropylene (PP) lines, ExxonMobil said late on Monday. Construction …
Read More »QatarEnergy Farms into Exploration Block Offshore Canada
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 …
Read More »Saudi Arabia’s SABIC Says ExxonMobil Petrochemical JV under Commissioning
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 …
Read More »Big Oil Needs to Cut Production by 50% to Hit Climate Targets
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, …
Read More »ExxonMobil Plans to Start Gas Drilling by End of Year
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 …
Read More »Turkey Mulls Cooperation with Chevron, ExxonMobil on Black Sea Find
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 …
Read More »ExxonMobil Strategy for Climate Change
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, …
Read More »5 Oil & Gas Giants 2020 Revenue Down 30% Despite $1trn Sales
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% …
Read More »Iraq Set to Buy ExxonMobil $350 Million Share of Basra Oilfield
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 …
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