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Saudi Arabia Plans Aramco Share Sale as Soon as June, Sources Say

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is planning a multi-billion-dollar share sale in energy giant Aramco  as soon as June in what would be one of the region’s biggest stock deals, two people familiar with the matter said. The offering could raise around $10 billion, one of the people said. The preparations are ongoing and the details could …

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Met With Texas AG as State Bans Banks Over ESG Policies

The April meeting with the JPMorgan CEO took place in New York Banks are being examined for their stance on oil and gas JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon met with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as the Republican official threatens to bar more banks from helping the state and its local governments sell bonds to raise …

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Barclays Faces Investor Pressure to Halt Fracking Finance

Church of England is among shareholders pressing UK bank ‘Stop funding this damaging and dangerous fuel’: ShareAction A group of 24 institutional investors with a combined $1.2 trillion of assets wants Barclays Plc to stop financing fracking, and argued a recent pledge by the British bank to restrict financing for companies that focus exclusively on fossil-fuel exploration …

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Kimmeridge Calls SilverBow ‘Worst-in-Class’ as Proxy Fight Heats

Kimmeridge Energy Management Co. said shale driller SilverBow Resources Inc.’s board prioritizes itself over investors as the proxy battle comes to a head. “The Board’s worst-in-class corporate governance that prioritizes itself and management over shareholder returns appears to have permeated throughout the entire organization in a cyclical, self-serving manner,” Kimmeridge wrote in a presentation Tuesday. This is …

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Big Oil Needs to Figure Out Its Strategy, and Fast

Faced with a mixed bag of earnings, shareholders are looking for direction. Bloomberg The world’s oil supermajors wrapped up earnings season leaving investors with more questions than answers. BP Plc was last to report, missing estimates and suggesting it’ll do more deals in low-carbon energy — despite pledging to dial back renewables investments and focus on the core fossil-fuel …

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Total’s U.S. Re-Listing Idea Could Backfire

(Reuters Breakingviews) – Patrick Pouyanné is seriously considering a U.S. primary listing for his $170 billion oil major TotalEnergies. The French company’s chairman and CEO will report back to his board by September. It shouldn’t take that long to decide that the move is a bad idea. Pouyanné’s main reason for considering the move is that U.S.-based …

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TotalEnergies Talks Up New York Listing With Sector Abuzz About Switches

Total Talks Up New York Listing With Sector Abuzz About Switches Shell, Glencore already subject of speculation over move to US ESG more important to European investors than on Wall Street TotalEnergies SE is increasingly making noise about moving its stock listing to New York, adding to chatter around European giants potentially being lured by US investors’ …

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Oil Producers Flush With Cash Cut Reliance on Funding Markets

Demand for bank loans fell in 2022 and again in 2023 The drop occurred after two years of rising oil prices Bloomberg Last year, the demand for loans from fossil-fuel companies fell 6% year-on-year and that followed a decline of 1% in 2022. From a climate perspective, this may sound like good news because the …

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TotalEnergies Looking at Primary Listing in New York, Says CEO

French oil major TotalEnergies is “seriously” looking at a possible listing in New York, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told analysts on Friday, to move closer to a majority of U.S.-based shareholders. The Paris-based company says it has 47% of institutional shareholders in the United States, and 39% of all global shareholders are located there. “We …

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