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Exxon Signals Q2 Below Market Consensus, Excluding Pioneer Buy

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp on Monday signaled that lower refining margins across the industry and lower natural gas prices will reduce profits in the second quarter. A snapshot of operating factors affecting the quarter suggests earnings per share between $1.50 and $2.40, or about $8.3 billion, which is 17% below market consensus. The preview excludes …

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U.S. Oil Output, Demand Rose in April to Four-Month High, EIA Says

 U.S. oil production and demand rose to a four-month high in April, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Petroleum Supply Monthly report published on Friday. Total U.S. field production of crude oil rose by 72,000 barrels per day (bpd) month-over-month to 13.25 million bpd, the highest since December. Product supplied of crude oil and …

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Environmental Activists Win Landmark Ruling Over UK Oil Well Plan

(Reuters) – The UK’s highest court ruled on Thursday that planners must look at the impact of emissions on global warming before granting approval for oil wells, in a landmark case that climate activists said makes it easier to block fossil fuel projects. Environmental campaigners had argued that planning permission to retain and expand an …

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Phillips 66 Seeing Tightened Margins Following Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Start-Up

U.S. refiner Phillips 66 said on Tuesday its margins have tightened after the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline project in Canada started up in May. The $24.84 billion expansion has nearly tripled the flow of crude from landlocked Alberta to Canada’s Pacific coast to 890,000 barrels per day (bpd). “We are still exporting Canadian crude from …

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Berkshire Hathaway Boosts Stake in Occidental Petroleum to Nearly 29%

(Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. acquired another 2.95 million shares in Occidental Petroleum , a regulatory filing showed, bringing his stake in the U.S. oil producer’s common stock to nearly 29%. Berkshire disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday that it paid about $176 million in three separate purchases of …

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EQT Restarts Curtailed Gas Production, Natural Gas Intelligence News Says

EQT Corp. CEO Toby Rice announced that the Pittsburgh-headquartered company is now reinstating the 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) that was previously curtailed since late February, Natural Gas Intelligence said in a report on Wednesday. EQT Corp., the leading producer of natural gas in North America, reduced production earlier this year due to …

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Matador to Buy Permian Oil Assets From EnCap for $1.9 Billion

Photographer: Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Oil producer Matador Resources Co. agreed to buy assets in the Permian Basin from a portfolio company of EnCap Investments LP for $1.9 billion in cash, the latest in a series of shale industry tie-ups. The deal includes oil and gas producing properties and undeveloped acreage in New Mexico and West Texas owned by …

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How Devon Energy Missed Out on the U.S. Oil and Gas Mega-Deal Wave

(Reuters) – U.S. oil and gas producer Devon Energy has lost bids to acquire at least three of its peers in the last 12 months because its shares were spurned as acquisition currency, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Devon missed out on the sector’s dealmaking boom by losing to ConocoPhillipsthe $22 billion deal to …

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U.S. Oil Producers Maintain Modest Growth as OPEC+ Eyes Extended Cuts

(Reuters) – U.S. oil drillers are sticking to pledges to temper spending on boosting output, keeping the world’s top crude producer on course for slower growth in 2024 in what may ease pressure on OPEC+ to make further supply cuts this weekend. The U.S. has driven growth in global oil supply from non-OPEC producers over …

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Chord Energy and Enerplus Complete Combination, Creating Premier Williston-Focused E&P Company

HOUSTON, May 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Chord Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHRD) (“Chord”, “Chord Energy” or the “Company”) and Enerplus Corporation (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) (“Enerplus”) announced today the completion of their previously announced business combination (the “Arrangement”). The Arrangement was approved by Chord and Enerplus shareholders on May 14, 2024 and May 24, 2024, respectively, and received …

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