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Exxon Mobil Corp reported a 5.2% drop in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, as assets sales propped up flat year-over-year oil and gas output and weakness in its refining and chemicals businesses. Oil companies last quarter suffered from weaker prices for their products, and in Exxon's case, it has been spending heavily to boost its oil... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major Chevron slumped to a $6.6 billion quarterly loss compared to 4Q 2019 $3.7 billion profit, citing previously announced impairments on several projects. "Included in the [4Q 2019] were previously announced upstream impairments and write-offs totaling $10.4 billion associated with Appalachia shale, Kitimat LNG, Big Foot, and other projects,” Chevron said. Continue reading
Jan 31, 2020 In 2019, the Brazilian production of oil and natural gas was 3.559 million barrels equivalent per day (MMboe / d), totaling 1.299 billion barrels of oil equivalent, an increase of 8.1% in relation to 2018. The State of Rio de Janeiro, where the Lula and Búzios fields are located, has been increasing... Continue Reading →
January 31, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), regarding the sales of all of its equity stakes in the companies Eólica Mangue Seco 1 and Eólica Mangue Seco 2, owners of wind power generation plants. The teasers, which contain key information about the assets, as... Continue Reading →
January 31, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the pressrelease disclosed on 10/24/2019, informs the beginning of the binding phase related to the sale of downstream assets, which includes: Isaac Sabbá Refinery (REMAN) in Amazonas, Lubrificantes e Derivados de Petróleo do Nordeste (LUBNOR) in Ceará, and the Shale Industrialization Unit (SIX) in... Continue Reading →
“Fit at 50”, “life begins at 70” and “the swinging 60s” were all slogans chosen to reflect oil price market sentiment in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. This year, at the Society of Underwater Technology’s (SUT) annual Global Subsea Market Outlook Business Breakfast, it was “the energy transition, stupid”. In fact, while Mike Beveridge, managing... Continue Reading →
Increasing activity, led by scaled down, accelerated projects and subsea tiebacks is helping drive an increasing business in the subsea industry. But there’s slim chance of revisiting the boom days of 2013, the Society of Underwater Technology’s annual Global Subsea Market Outlook Business Breakfast heard this morning. Henning Bjørvik, an analyst in the Oilfield Service... Continue Reading →
Dutch geotechnical services provider Fugro expects to earn around $40 million from the sale of HC2 Holdings’ subsidiary Global Marine Group (GMG). Fugro said on Thursday that it would monetize the remainder of its non-core 23.6% interest in GMG, which was expected to result in proceeds for Fugro of close to $40 million. According to... Continue Reading →
Orsted, the world's largest offshore wind farm developer, exceeded its own full-year core profit expectations on Thursday on the back of strong generation from its wind farms but said it expected this year's result to be slightly lower. Its 2019 earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) excluding new partnerships increased by 17% to... Continue Reading →
The swollen number of orders felt in 2019 for floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSO) was, it turns out, well above the average number of yearly go-aheads seen in over the past 10 years, a new floater report says. Oil prices and a rush to kickstart industry and national wealth in developing countries appears... Continue Reading →
