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President Biden, who has championed a zero-carbon emissions future, on Tuesday acknowledged that the United States would need oil and natural gas for at least another decade. However, his silence on exploration and production permitting reform was deafening for some politicos and industry groups. The comments were not part of the prepared remarks in the…

The global natural gas and oil exploration sector had its strongest year in 2022 in a decade as national oil companies and majors focused on taking advantage of what might be a short-term window of opportunity. The sector created some $33 billion of value at $60/bbl Brent prices last year, according to a report from…

TotalEnergies SE is withdrawing its representatives on PAO Novatek’s board and said it would stop accounting for its 19.4% stake in the company.

TotalEnergies SE reported a 10% sequential decline in second quarter LNG sales, but stronger prices for the super-chilled fuel helped the company cruise to a record profit. The sales decline was mainly due to the outage at the Freeport liquefied natural gas terminal on the Upper Texas coast, where TotalEnergies has long-term offtake agreements in…

LNG and renewables are the core of TotalEnergies SE’s U.S. strategy as it inks alliances to expand the global trading arm, executives said Wednesday. The French supermajor is “profitably expanding,” with liquefied natural gas equity production in the United States and Mexico, said CFO Jean-Pierre Sbraire. He and CEO Patrick Pouyanné shared the stage in…

Paris-based TotalEnergies SE agreed to sell its 49% interest in a Siberian natural gas field to Russian partner PAO Novatek. The sale followed reports that the gas project produced fuel for Russian military aircraft used to advance the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. The French energy giant said Friday it expects the sale of its stake…

Mozambique could soon export its first LNG from the Eni SpA-operated Coral-Sul Floating LNG (FLNG) facility offshore Mozambique’s northern coastline, as an LNG tanker is sailing to the facility to load the first cargo.  The British Mentor was floating in the Mozambique Channel on Thursday, just south of the Comoro Islands, according to ship-tracking data…

Italy’s Eni SpA and Paris-based TotalEnergies on Monday said they made a major natural gas discovery at the Cronos-1 well, in Block 6, offshore Cyprus. Located about 100 miles southwest of the Cyprus coast, Cronos-1 “encountered several good quality carbonate reservoir intervals and confirmed overall net gas pay of more than 260 meters,” TotalEnergies said.…

TotalEnergies SE boosted its energy output in the second quarter to help fill the shortfall in Russian oil and natural gas supplies, reaping the benefits of soaring commodity prices in the process. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to impact energy markets in the second quarter, with oil prices averaging more than $110/bbl in the quarter,…