Earnings

North America natural gas and oil customers are likely to increase their overall capital spending by at least 15% year/year, with well completions equipment already fully contracted, Halliburton Co. CEO Jeff Miller said Tuesday. Well completions fetched higher prices and customers clamored for more products, signaling a solid business environment ahead for natural gas and…

An uptick in global offshore development, combined with expansion of natural gas opportunities overseas, bode well for SLB Ltd. to improve activity in 2023, CEO Olivier Le Peuch said Friday.  All signs point in a positive direction, Le Peuch said, after the world’s No. 1 oilfield services (OFS) operator closed out a “remarkable year.” He…

Houston-based Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. expects to record net income of $100 million-plus for 4Q2022, a sharp turnaround from year-ago losses as Lower 48 drilling expands. The oilfield services company, which previewed earnings on Wednesday, had reported net losses for the fourth quarter of 2021. “In contract drilling, average rig revenue per day benefited primarily from…

Argentina’s YPF SA is aiming to sanction an LNG export project by the end of 2023, according to CFO Alejandro Lew. Lew and CEO Pablo Iuliano hosted a call earlier this month to discuss the 51% state-owned oil and gas company’s third-quarter results. YPF and Malaysian national oil company Petronas signed a memorandum of understanding…

TC Energy Corp. is working to connect more natural gas supply from the Haynesville Shale and Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) with LNG export demand, management said last week. CEO François Poirier hosted a call on Wednesday (Nov. 9) to discuss the Calgary-based pipeline juggernaut’s third quarter earnings. Poirier and his team highlighted the $400…

With LNG exports seen driving U.S. natural gas demand growth over the coming years, Devon Energy Corp. is positioning itself to capitalize on premium global gas prices, management said Wednesday.  In a call to discuss the Lower 48 producer’s third quarter earnings, CEO Rick Muncrief highlighted a partnership with Delfin Midstream Inc. that would see…

BP plc is forecasting continued high prices and volatility in the natural gas market through year-end, following an “exceptional” third quarter for its gas marketing and trading business, management said Tuesday (Nov. 1). Breaking down the supermajor’s quarterly results on a conference call, CFO Murray Auchincloss said that reduced Russian pipeline imports to Europe “led…

Enterprise Products Partners LP transported record volumes on its pipeline systems during the third quarter of 2022, buoyed by the natural gas gathering and processing business it acquired from Navitas Midstream Partners LP earlier this year. However, management acknowledged that pipeline capacity in the Permian Basin is tight, and more negative gas pricing may be…

Marathon Oil Corp. has entered a deal to acquire the natural gas and condensate-weighted Eagle Ford Shale assets of Ensign Natural Resources for $3 billion in cash. The assets span 130,000 net acres in South Texas’ Live Oak, Bee, Karnes and Dewitt counties across the condensate, wet gas and dry gas phase windows of the…