Chevron Corp plans to spend $20 billion next year on oil and natural gas projects, the second-largest U.S. oil producer said on Thursday in a statement, its first increase in four years.Its 2019 capital spending budget is at the high end of…
U.S. energy firms added oil rigs for a fourth time in the last five, keeping the rig count at its highest in over three years even though crude futures were on track to fall for a fifth week in a row to their lowest level since February.Drillers added 12 oil rigs in the week to Nov…
Aker BP's third-quarter operating profit rose more than expected, helped by a boom in oil prices, the Norwegian oil firm said on Friday, while reducing planned capital and exploration spending.Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rose to…
U.S. electric utilities are expected to shut hundreds more of their coal-fired power generators in the coming years, extending a long trend away from coal and toward natural gas that has cast a pall over the mining industry. But not every U…
U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for a third week in a row as energy firms follow through on plans to spend more on drilling this year with crude prices near three-year highs.Drillers added five oil rigs in the week to April 20, bringing the total count to 820…
The world's top oil companies are expected to generate more cash in 2018 than at any other time this decade after three painful years of cuts, but it isn't party time yet.The shift in sentiment has been rapid as crude prices have risen by…
More than 70% of Chevron's US$19.8 billion 2017 planned upstream investment will generate production within two years, the firm said yesterday. Chevron says it is targeting shorter-cycle, high-return investments with its 2017 capital budget…
The embattled crude oil and natural gas industry worldwide has slashed capital spending to a point below the minimum required levels to replace reserves — replacement of proved reserves in the past constituted about 80% of the industry's spending…
Global upstream capital spending from 2015 out to 2020 has been reduced by 22% or US$740 billion, however, when cuts to conventional exploration investment are included, the figure increases to just over $1 trillion, Wood Mackenzie said. Image…
Shell’s deepwater production could double, to some 900,000 boe/d in 2020, compared with 450,000 boe/d in 2015, the super major said this morning. Setting out its capital spending plans up to 2020, which are to be capped at US$25-30 billion a year…
As ExxonMobil decreases its capital spending budget this year by 25%, the supermajor looks to start up 10 new upstream projects between now and 2017 that will see its production capacity increase. Tillerson…
The depressed oil price environment is painting a gloomy outlook for North American exploration and production (E&Ps) companies, and further, significant CAPEX cuts are needed in order for the group to demonstrate real financial discipline and align spending more closely with cash flow…
In Chevron's Q4 2015 earnings conference call today, the company announced it was cancelling the deepwater Gulf of Mexico project Buckskin-Moccasin, instead choosing to advance other projects, particularly onshore in the Permian basin. Chevron's…
Embattled Brazilian state owned firm Petrobras has made deeper cuts to its previously announced 2015-2019 business plan, with the company announcing a 25% drop in capex today (12 January). Petrobras will drop its planned capital expenses by US$32 billion in its 2015-2019 business plan…
ConocoPhillips is vastly reducing its 2016 capital budget by 55% to US$7.7 billion, compared to two years ago, that the Houston-based company says is due to the current environment, which remains challenging with low and volatile prices. Ekofisk area…
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