Earnings

Natural gas and oil operators are likely to report a return to normalcy — but not growth — when they unveil their third quarter results in the coming weeks, but the demand forecasts may be hazy amid a historic hurricane season and the expanded wave of damaging Covid-19 infections.  Schlumberger Ltd., the world’s largest oilfield…

ExxonMobil is to be replaced on the Dow Jones Industrial Average effective Monday (Aug. 31) in a shakeup prompted by Apple Inc.’s decision to split its stock. The price-weighted, 30-stock, blue chip index said Salesforce.com would replace the Irving, TX-based supermajor. ExxonMobil has traded on the Dow since 1928. As recently as 2011, ExxonMobil was…

Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas Corp. (SWGas) continues to see its business units expand and expects that trend to continue, CEO John Hester said earlier this month. Covid-19 “is our No. 1 concern,” Hester said during the second quarter conference call. “We’re closely monitoring the impact on SWGas operations.” Demand to date is strong for services…

U.S. midstream management teams doubled down on cost cuts and reduced capital expenditures (capex) during second quarter earnings season. However, many also struck generally optimistic tones about improving volumes and a gradual recovery from the energy slump imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. Overall, “the messaging was really good, particularly around considerably less capex going forward,…

DCP Midstream LP’s chief executive lauded Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ ability to forge agreement among the energy industry and environmental groups, saying it “ensured political and regulatory certainty” in the state “for years to come.” CEO Wouter van Kempen of Denver-based DCP referred to a recent report from the governor in which he noted that…

Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. is throttling back from growth to ensure it can build cash flow to pay down some big debt maturities due in 2021, CEO Vicki Hollub said Tuesday. The company, better known as Oxy, has set spending priorities on maintenance, debt reduction and eventually a sustainable dividend before expanding, Hollub said during…

A pair of prominent oil and gas companies active in the Denver-Julesburg Basin (DJ) are keeping capital expenditures (capex) in check while posting modest upticks in sales volumes. Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. and Highpoint Resources Corp., both based in Denver, reported substantial second-quarter losses, however, dinged by lower sales prices in the wake of the…

Despite tension between Mexico’s government and non-state energy firms, Houston-based Talos Energy Inc. maintains a bright outlook for private sector exploration and production (E&P) in the country, management said last week. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has upheld his pledge to honor the more than 100 E&P contracts awarded following the 2013-2014 market-opening energy reform,…

Marathon Oil Corp. said stabilization in commodity prices enabled the company to raise its full-year oil production outlook even as it keeps costs in check and further lowers its capital expenditure (capex) plans. Houston-based Marathon — which works in Oklahoma, the Delaware Basin and the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales — raised slightly its 2020…