Chevron said on Tuesday it would record an impairment to a portion of its U.S. upstream assets, primarily in California, and take losses related to oil and gas production assets sold in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The oil major, in a filing, said it expects to take non-cash, after-tax charges of $3.5 billion-$4 billion in …
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This year climate change will be part of almost every major story from elections to natural disasters. After a year of record heat, climate change has become a critical issue for countries worldwide. And still, headwinds from rising interest rates to political debates over environmentally-focused investing have made tackling global warming more difficult. Indeed, a study last year found that …
(Reuters) – Natural gas supplies to Europe by Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) were down 55.6% to 28.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2023, Reuters calculations showed on Tuesday. The calculations, based on data from the European gas transmission group Entsog and Gazprom’s daily reports on gas transit via Ukraine, showed that average daily pipeline exports …
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Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canada’s price on pollution is supposed to help battle global warming, but as it nears its fifth anniversary, nothing in Canadian politics is hotter. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has so successfully convinced Canadians the carbon price is to blame for inflation that he even earned begrudging respect for his “axe the …
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(Reuters) – U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp (XOM.N) has formally exited the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq and handed over its operations to PetroChina as lead contractor, a deputy oil minister told Reuters on Monday. Senior Iraqi oil officials met with executives from ExxonMobil, PetroChina and Basra Oil Co on Monday at the West …
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Combustion-engine vehicles still dominate the world’s highways. By Javier Blas Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” Rumors that gasoline demand has peaked have been greatly exaggerated. After fueling the 20th century automobile culture …
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Dec 29 (Reuters) – U.S. energy firms added oil and gas rigs for second year in a row, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its report on Friday. The number of gas and oil rigs were overall unchanged for the week, with oil rigs falling one and gas rigs rising by one, Baker …
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(Reuters) – U.S. energy firms added oil and gas rigs for second year in a row, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its report on Friday. The number of gas and oil rigs were overall unchanged for the week, with oil rigs falling one and gas rigs rising by one, Baker Hughes said. …
Reuters Dec 29 (Reuters) – A federal safety board investigation has found that Chesapeake Energy (CHK.O) and its contractors failed to provide adequate control measures at the site of a 2020 fire at a company-operated oil well, that claimed three lives. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), which investigates industrial chemical accidents, said in a report published …
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LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) – OPEC is facing weakening demand for its crude in the first half of 2024 just as its global market share declines to the lowest since the Covid-19 pandemic on the back of output cuts and member Angola’s exit, according to Reuters calculations and data from forecasters. The trend means the …
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