The oil and gas industry is responding to the low oil price environment with exploration budget cuts in 2015 which will average 30%, leading to suggestions that exploration activity could be significantly curtailed. However in an effort to drive value…
Super major Shell is curtailing its spending by more than US$15 billion over the next three years and has futher options to reduce spending, the supermajor announced this morning, citing the dramatic, nearly 60% drop in oil prices over the past six months…
New York-headquartered Hess says it is cutting its 2015 capital and exploration budget by 16%, compared to 2014, to US$4.7 billion. While the firm said most of the cash (45%/$2.1 billion) would be spent on its unconventional shale resources…
The world's oil and gas exploration companies are expected to cut capital expenditures 17% this year as a deep slump in crude oil prices takes a toll on budgets, according to a survey by Cowen and Company, released Wednesday. The survey…
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has warned that its Q2 results will be weaker than current market expectations due to less predictable seismic purchases. PGS said: 'Customers' intentions with regard to seismic purchases, particularly MultiClient…
Weakening spending by E&P majors, particularly on seismic is being felt in the geoscience sector, with Dutch geoscience and geotechnical services firm Fugro revealing a potential Eur300-350 million non-cash impairment in its geoscience division today…
Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasts global subsea hardware capex will total US$117 billion (bn) between 2014 and 2018. This represents growth of more than 80% compared with the preceding five-year period. In 2013, subsea tree installations were lower than expected…
The past few weeks have seen a string of profit warnings and capital spending cutbacks from global oil and gas exploration majors. Should oilfield service companies be worried that the good times are coming to an end? According to bank and investment company Investec…
Oil and gas companies will spend about US$723 billion on exploration and production (E&P) in 2014, an increase of 6.1% from 2013, Barclays Bank said in a report. Major oil companies are slowing spending growth as they put more emphasis…
Global upstream spending ballooned by 47% in 2010, driven by substantial investments in the US and Latin America, IHS reported. In the IHS Herold 2011 Global Upstream Performance Review, the information service said capital spending among 221 oil & gas companies reached $558 billion in 2010…
Oil & gas companies will spend roughly $135 billion on subsea hardware between 2012 and 2016, an increase of 14% over the preceding five-year period, according to a new report from Douglas-Westwood.Spending took a hit in 2010 and 2011 as the…
The US oil & gas industry grew across several categories in 2011, including a 38% increase in exploration and development spending, according to new analysis from Ernst & Young. Russell McCulley reports.While total capital expenditures among…
Total spending for upstream oil & gas will hit nearly $1.3 trillion this year, led by a robust North American market, according to a new report by IHS.Driven by strong oil prices and the North American unconventional gas boom, global upstream…
Global upstream capital spending should rebound this year, according to IHS Herold director Nicholas Cacchione, author of the research firm’s 2010 Global Upstream Performance Review, released last month. ‘In North America, E&P investment increased 30% in the first half of 2010…
Two recently published reports point to a speedy recovery for offshore E&P. The deepwater sector of the oil & gas business should recover quickly from the economic downturn and resume the growth the sector enjoyed before the recession, suggests a new report from Douglas-Westwood…
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