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Capital spending cuts are coming across the energy spectrum, with Chevron Corp. and Schlumberger Ltd. among the latest to respond aggressively to the unprecedented downturn in the oil and gas industry.

Chevron Corp. led the way by oil and natural gas producers on Tuesday in announcing huge cuts to capital spending this year, with Marcellus Shale operator Antero Resources Inc. and Permian Basin-focused Laredo Petroleum Inc. also pulling back as the North American energy industry attempts to regroup amid a pandemic and an oil price war.

Oil and natural gas prospects in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) drew bids from 22 operators Wednesday in the latest federal lease sale, with deepwater blocks pulling the most interest.

Environmental and societal stewardship have been trending the last couple of months across the oil and natural gas industry, but Chevron Corp.’s executive team made clear Tuesday that those concepts already are deeply ingrained throughout the 45,000-member workforce.

Record production from the Permian Basin and a bevy of oil and natural gas projects worldwide was not enough to stanch the decline in commodity prices during the final quarter, as Chevron Corp. recorded a $10.4 billion impairment for assets that included the Appalachia portfolio, a natural gas export facility planned for British Columbia and a deepwater Gulf of Mexico project.

Record production from the Permian Basin and a bevy of oil and natural gas projects worldwide was not enough to stanch the decline in commodity prices during the final quarter, as Chevron Corp. recorded a $10.4 billion impairment for assets that included the Appalachia portfolio, a natural gas export facility planned for British Columbia and a deepwater Gulf of Mexico project.

Chevron Corp. is raising capital spending in the Permian Basin by around 11% for the coming year, but Appalachia is to see budget cutbacks on the continued slump in natural gas prices.

Chevron Corp. on Thursday sanctioned the massive Anchor oil and natural gas project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the first greenfield launch in nine years and the first high-pressure project for the domestic offshore.

Stung by the continued slump in natural gas prices, Chevron Corp. plans to cut back spending in Appalachia and a long-delayed gas export project proposed for the west coast of Canada, the supermajor said.