Europe’s Big Oil companies are planning to spend their windfall from high energy prices on becoming Small Oil. Surging oil and gas prices in 2021 delivered billions of dollars in profits to top oil companies, in stark contrast to the previous year when energy prices collapsed as the coronavirus pandemic …
Read More »Big Oil’s Spending Plans for 2022
The global upstream sector is set for a rebound next year, when overall investment in exploration and production is expected to exceed $400 billion for the first time in three years. Yet, despite record high cash flows and oil at over $70 a barrel, reinvestment rates will stay at near …
Read More »Total, Shell Emerge as Top Bidders in Brazil’s $2 Billion Offshore Auction
While TotalEnergies, Qatar Energy and Petronas won the rights to develop the coveted Sepia field, Brazil’s state-run Petrobras, formally Petroleo Brasileiro SA, later entered the consortium by exercising preference rights. Petrobras, Total and Shell secured the nearby Atapu field. The auction was widely seen as a test of Brazil’s investment …
Read More »UAE’s Masdar, Engie to Invest $5 bil in Renewables, Hydrogen
The UAE’s clean energy firm Masdar and France’s Engie plan to invest $5 billion to develop 2 GW of renewable and hydrogen projects by 2030 as OPEC’s third biggest producer seeks to implement its net zero emissions pledge by 2050. The agreement between Masdar and Engie was signed during French …
Read More »Big Oil is Fighting for Clean Fossil Fuels
Several international oil supermajors are planning to boost production while also promising to decrease their greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade and beyond. This seemingly counterintuitive strategy is the result of pressure from international organizations to decarbonize and the continued climb of energy demand around the world. Royal Dutch …
Read More »Energy Majors Facing $3.3 Trillion ‘Green’ Nightmare
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 »TotalEnergies Profit Jumps more than Expected
TotalEnergies SE’s third-quarter profit rose by more than expected, making the French oil and gas producer the latest beneficiary of high energy prices. While an energy supply crunch is wreaking havoc on Europe’s economy, it’s lifting the earnings of major producers to multiyear highs. Norway’s Equinor ASA reported a tenfold …
Read More »Total to Invest $27 bn in Energy Projects in Iraq’s Basra Region
French energy giant Total Energies and the Iraqi ministries for oil and electricity along with the country’s National Investment Commission have signed major agreements, worth $27 billion, covering several projects in the Basra region, designed to enhance the development of Iraq’s natural resources and to improve the country’s electricity supply. …
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 »Iraq and France Sign an Agreement to Invest in Gas and Develop Oil Fields
Under the sponsorship of the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, the agreement for optimal investment projects for associated gas and developing oil fields between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the French Total was signed today. The agreement includes, according to a statement by Al-Kadhimi’s office, “three contracts between the Iraqi …
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