In November 2007 Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, shocked the E&P world by announcing a 5-to-8-Bbbl discovery in a completely unknown geological play: carbonate reservoirs below a 2-km layer of salt, offshore Brazil, in a 2,000-m water depth. This announcement marked the beginning of a complete turnaround in the history of Brazil’s oil and gas... Continue Reading →
Shell lifts dividend as profit narrows
Oil major and LNG giant Shell saw its third quarter 2020 earnings decrease when compared to the last year’s third quarter amid lower oil price environment but the oil major decided to increase its dividend. Shell on Thursday said that the income attributable to its shareholders was $0.5 billion for the third quarter of 2020,... Continue Reading →
Exxon Mobil to Keep Dividend Flat for First Time Since 1982
Exxon Mobil Corp on Wednesday kept its fourth-quarter dividend flat at 87 cents a share, signaling 2020 will be the first year since 1982 that the U.S. oil producer has not raised its shareholder payout. The largest U.S. oil producer by volume was caught off guard by the sharp decline in energy prices and demand... Continue Reading →
Equinor reports adj. net income of $780M, raises dividend
Equinor (NYSE:EQNR): Q3 Adj. net income of $780M vs. a consensus of $1.03B. Raises dividend to $0.11/share from $0.09. Revenue of $11.34B (-27.4% Y/Y) beats by $1.2B. EQNR delivered total equity production of 1,994 mboe per day in Q3, up from 1,909 mboe per day in the same period in 2019, with an increased share of gas.... Continue Reading →
Mexico’s Pemex swings to $64 million profit in third quarter
(Reuters) - Mexican national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos reported a third quarter net profit of 1.417 billion pesos ($64.1 million), reversing losses from the same quarter last year, the company said in a filing to the Mexican stock exchange on Wednesday. The swing to profit was attributed mostly to the performance of financial instruments as... Continue Reading →
Chevron to Cut a Quarter of Noble Energy’s Employees
(Reuters) Chevron Corp will lay off about 25% of Noble Energy's employees who joined the oil major after its $4.1 billion purchase of the smaller rival earlier this month, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. A collapse in crude oil prices has forced most oil and gas producers to drastically cut costs by laying off thousands... Continue Reading →
Eni Posts 3Q Loss. Output Drops but Full Year Forecast Unchanged
Italian energy group Eni's balance sheet remains strong, it said on Wednesday after swinging to a third-quarter net loss as the coronavirus crisis took its toll. The company said it recorded an adjusted net loss of 0.15 billion euros ($177 million), in line with an analyst consensus provided by the company for a loss of... Continue Reading →
Green energy to draw $11 trillion in investments by 2050
(Bloomberg) - Green power is set to draw around $11 trillion of investment in the coming decades as the cost of renewables plummets and more of the world’s energy comes from electricity. That’s the latest analysis from BloombergNEF in its annual New Energy Outlook report. It’s further evidence of how cheap renewable power sources will... Continue Reading →
Hess posts wider-than-expected third quarter loss, cuts annual production forecast
(Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer Hess Corp HES.N reported a wider-than-expected loss on Wednesday and slightly lowered its full year production forecast, as its operations were affected by hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and lower production in South East Asia. The company also cut its exploration and production budget for the year to $1.8... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on the FPSO P-71 and the development of Tupi
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that, after negotiations with its partners in BM-S-11 Consortium, Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda (25%) and Petrogal Brasil S.A. (10%), signed a commitment to purchase platform P-71, subject to the foregoing conditions related to milestones in the unit's physical progress. It was also agreed to prepare a new Development Plan... Continue Reading →