Earnings

Paramount Resources Ltd. has set its sights on finishing its fifth walking rig after higher natural gas and oil prices more than doubled 2022 earnings. The independent reports earnings in Canadian dollars (C$1.00/US 75 cents). The Calgary firm’s 2023 budget enables subsidiary Fox Drilling to finish building the high-tech rig for $16.8 million. The program…

Calgary-based independent Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. made a strategic decision to ramp up its substantial natural gas portfolio last year, which resulted in a 23% increase in output year/year. “For North American operations, 2022 annual natural gas production was 2.08 Bcf/d, versus the 1.68 Bcf/d for 2021, up almost 395 MMcf/d,” said President Tim McKay…

Mark Ovintiv Inc. as yet another North American producer expecting to pull back the reins on natural gas development this year.  The Denver-based explorer is reducing development “in response to weaker short term North American natural gas fundamentals,” CEO Brendan McCracken said during the recent quarterly conference call.  Executives of other U.S.-based producers during 4Q2022…

Targa Resources Corp. is bullishly pushing forward with expansion projects in the prolific Permian Basin, citing expectations for robust global oil and natural gas demand long term The Houston-based company expects momentum to push through 2023, a year in which global oil demand is projected by the International Energy Agency to grow and foundations are…

Amid record profits across the globe for oil and gas giants, Mexico’s national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, aka Pemex, posted yet another loss in the fourth quarter of 2022. The company reported a fourth-quarter net loss of 172.4 billion pesos ($9.4 billion) after a 52- billion peso loss in the third quarter. In 4Q2021, Pemex…

Southwestern Energy Co. said Friday it would drop drilling rigs this year in the Appalachian Basin and Haynesville Shale, joining other natural gas-focused producers that have announced plans to curb activity in response to falling prices. “Given near-term market conditions, we have proactively moderated activity, resulting in slightly lower expected production for 2023, and have…

Diamondback Energy Inc. has no plans to accelerate oil production growth despite signs of impending tightness in the global market, according to management. CEO Travis Stice hosted a conference call to discuss the Permian Basin pure-play’s fourth quarter and full-year 2022 results. “I don’t think the macro conditions are dictating any kind of production growth…

Targa Resources Corp. is bullishly pushing forward with expansion projects in the prolific Permian Basin, citing expectations for robust global oil and natural gas demand long term The Houston-based company expects momentum to push through 2023, a year in which global oil demand is projected by the International Energy Agency to grow and foundations are…

EQT Corp. continues to wait for antitrust regulators to clear its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill Inc.’s upstream and midstream assets in West Virginia, and management now expects to provide more details on the timing of the transaction around the middle of the year. The deal, which would add 800 MMcfe/d of production from…