Growth

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is taking a 10% stake in a Chinese petrochemical company to expand its crude oil presence in the country. Aramco, as it is known, said it would pay around $3.6 billion to buy the interest in Rongsheng Petrochemical Co. Ltd.  Aramco Overseas Co. (AOC) would manage the stake. Under a long-term…

Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) management on Wednesday offered a bullish assessment of natural gas growth opportunities but conveyed a more measured outlook for the oil market. “Overall, we remain very positive on the outlook for natural gas,” Baker Hughes’ CEO Lorenzo Simonelli told analysts during the oilfield services (OFS) giant’s 2Q2022 earnings call. “We also…

Solid growth continued across some of the biggest oil and natural gas production regions in the country during the third quarter, but supply costs are rising and executives are a bit more wary than earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said Wednesday. The Dallas Fed, as it is known, collected data across…

Pennsylvania’s oil and natural gas industry supported 6.1% of the total jobs and 9.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, according to a new study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The industry overall supported 480,000 total jobs (102,500 direct and 377,800 indirect) and contributed $78.4 billion ($39.4 billion direct and $38.9…

Devon Energy Corp. CEO Rick Muncrief said it’s time for his peers to get their act together and stop expanding oil and gas production until demand outpaces supply. Speaking with investors during a first quarter conference call on Wednesday, Muncrief took the pulpit to preach to fellow exploration and production (E&P) companies. Mirroring comments by…

France’s Total SE plans to base its growth strategy on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and renewable electricity during the 2020-2030 period and propose a name change to shareholders to reflect the shift in focus, management said Tuesday.  “The writing is on the wall,” said CEO Patrick Pouyanné upon presenting the major’s 2020 earnings to analysts…

All claims to the contrary, the oil and gas industry is not dying a slow death, with the outlook for U.S. exports looking strong long term, according to one of the energy world’s leading thought leaders. Master storyteller Daniel Yergin, more often the inquirer, had much to share with NGI in a recent conversation about…

MPLX LP is targeting high-return projects in the Permian Basin-to-Gulf Coast corridor as it continues to streamline 2020 growth capital expenditures (capex) to $1.5 billion, down by another $500 million from the most recent estimate.

MPLX LP is targeting high-return projects in the Permian Basin-to-Gulf Coast corridor as it continues to streamline 2020 growth capital expenditures (capex) to $1.5 billion, down by another $500 million from the most recent estimate.