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Canada’s Oil Boom Threatens to Bring Back Pipeline Shortages

Bloomberg News Canada’s oil producers are poised to pour about half a million barrels of new daily output — more than the total production of some Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members — into world markets over the next year or sp. And while the deluge of new crude will be a boon to …

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U.S. Oilfield Job Losses Could Swell as Natural Gas Prices Plunge

Oilfield service companies and drillers have put the brakes on hiring and further job cuts could loom as natural gas producers respond to sliding prices by slashing spending on new wells to reduce excess production. Already some 4,680 oilfield jobs have been lost since December, according to data from trade group Energy Workforce & Technology …

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U.S. Crude Stockpiles Rise, Gasoline and Distillate Draw Down – EIA

U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose while gasoline and distillate inventories fell last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Thursday. Crude inventories rose by 3.5 million barrels to 442.9 million barrels in the week ending Feb. 16, the EIA said, compared with analysts’ expectations in a Reuters poll for a 3.9 million-barrel rise. Crude stocks …

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Canada’s Suncor Looks to Cut High Oil Sands Mine Operating Costs

Suncor Energy, Canada’s second-largest oil producer, will focus this year on cutting operating costs in its oil sands mining business, CEO Rich Kruger said on Thursday, as the company continues efforts to fix long-running underperformance. Calgary-based Suncor is trying to improve safety and efficiency after a string of fatalities at oil sands sites in recent …

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Cheniere Energy’s Annual LNG Revenue Falls on Lower Natgas Prices

Reuters (Reuters) – U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Cheniere Energy  posted a 38.5% fall in its full-year LNG revenue on Thursday, hurt by a fall in natgas prices. Average U.S. natural gas prices fell nearly 40% in 2023, dragged by record production, ample inventories in storage and relatively mild weather conditions, pressuring prices for LNG …

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BP Plans Return of Whiting, Indiana Refinery in March, Sources Say

BP Plc plans to return its 435,000 barrel-per-day Whiting, Indiana refinery, the largest in the U.S. Midwest, to full production in March, said people familiar with plant operations on Wednesday. BP plans to begin restarting the refinery in the last week of February and bring refinery production to full in March, the sources said. A …

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Chord Energy and Enerplus to Combine in $11 billion Transaction Creating Premier Williston-Focused E&P Company With Top-Tier Shareholder Returns

Enhanced Operating Scale to Drive Returns and Free Cash Flow; Combined Acreage Position Totaling 1.3 Million Net Acres and Combined 4Q23 Production of 287,000 Boepd Combined Company has Approximately 10 years of Low-Breakeven Inventory with Significant Opportunity to Enhance Returns through Efficiencies and Expanding Three-Mile Lateral Opportunities Transaction Accretive to Key Metrics  While Preserving Low Leverage; …

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Chesapeake Energy Tops Quarterly Estimates, Cuts Production Views

(Reuters) – Chesapeake Energy beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday as the U.S. natural gas producer tackled weak commodity prices with lower operating expenses. Chesapeake shares fell about 2% in aftermarket trading as the company forecast a 20% drop in spending on baseline production this year. Its fourth-quarter shareholder returns also fell sharply …

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Equitrans Delays WV-VA Mountain Valley Natgas Pipe Again, Boosts Cost

U.S. energy firm Equitrans Midstream delayed the completion date for its Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia to the second quarter of 2024 from the previous estimate of the first quarter. The company also boosted the projected cost to complete the project to around $7.57 billion-$7.63 billion, up from a prior …

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Occidental Explores $20 Bln-Plus Sale of Western Midstream

Occidental Petroleum is exploring a sale of Western Midstream Partners, a U.S. natural gas-focused pipeline operator that has a market value of close to $20 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Western Midstream shares rose 10% to $32.12 in afternoon trading in New York on Tuesday. The divestment would help Occidental, …

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