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(Reuters) - Last year, when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sacked the head of state-run oil company Petrobras amid a spat over domestic fuel prices, the market reaction was apoplectic. Preferred shares in the firm plummeted 22% in a day. Analysts quickly downgraded a slew of Brazilian assets from state banks to sovereign debt. Many investors... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) — Some oil and gas dealmakers are hitting the pause button as prices whipsaw following the ban on Russian oil imports. Companies are concerned about overpaying for assets while focused on cutting debt and rewarding shareholders. For example, the owners of Sequitur Energy Resources are holding onto 83,000 net acres in part of the... Continue Reading →
Guyana-focused oil companies Frontera Energy Corporation and CGX Energy, joint venture partners in the Corentyne block offshore Guyana, said Friday they'd entered into a $35 million loan deal that will enable CGX to continue to finance part of its share of costs related to the Corentyne Block, the Berbice Deepwater Port, and other budgeted costs... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L) faces further writedowns from exiting Russia over the country's invasion of Ukraine, it said on Thursday, flagging that it had $0.4 billion in Russian downstream assets as well as the $3 billion in other projects announced previously. The oil major announced on Feb. 28 that it would quit its ventures in Russia with... Continue Reading →
(Offshore Energy) The Curaçao-based international holding company, HAL Holding, has announced an intended all-cash voluntary public offer of €32.50 per ordinary share for all issued ordinary shares in the capital of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. HAL has been a shareholder of Boskalis since 1989 and currently holds 46.2 per cent of the issued Boskalis shares.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) West Africa-focused Tullow Oil's chief executive TLW.L said on Wednesday its Jubilee offshore oilfield in Ghana could produce 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) and the TEN field 50,000 boe/d by 2025 under current spending plans. Tullow will spend most of its $350 million investment program this year on Ghana, where Jubilee produced around 75,000 boe/d in 2021... Continue Reading →
(OE) U.S.-based offshore support vessel owner Tidewater said Wednesday it had agreed to acquire Swire Pacific Offshore Holdings Limited (“SPO”), a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited for around $190 million. Tidewater said the transaction would create the industry’s largest fleet of offshore support vessels with 203 vessels in total, including crew boats, tug boats, and... Continue Reading →
(WO/Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s ban on Russian oil imports puts new pressure on U.S. drillers to help fill a supply shortfall that has sent crude prices to the highest levels since 2008. Among them: EOG Resources Inc. and Devon Energy Corp., two shale giants that are sitting on thousands of federal drilling permits, many of which could... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Schlumberger's (SLB.N) current-quarter results are likely to be impacted by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday, as Moscow accounts for about 5% of the oilfield services company's global revenue. Crude prices have surged since the beginning of March on worries over the invasion of Ukraine and as the United States... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Global commodities trader Trafigura Group raised a $1.2 billion revolving credit facility from a consortium of banks to increase its financing pool in order to handle soaring energy and commodity prices, the company said on Tuesday. "It was set up in record time...thanks to the support of the group of underwriters, as the... Continue Reading →
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