The French energy giant’s results are line with other major oil and gas producers, with rivals Shell Plc and Chevron Corp. also prioritizing cash returns to investors even as they posted declining end-of-year profits. Lower earnings could put pressure on the industry’s ability to fund hefty share buybacks in the longer term, but for now the industry is coping with sluggish economic growth in Europe and mounting trade tensions provoked by the policies of US President Donald Trump.
TriMas Corp., a Michigan-based manufacturer of engineered products, has completed the sale of its Arrow Engine business to IES Infrastructure Solutions LLC, a division of IES Holdings Inc. TriMas confirmed in a media release that the sale marks the end of its direct presence in the oil and gas market.
Shell has restored oil and gas production from the Penguins field in the UK North Sea with a new floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, the UK-based supermajor said on Tuesday, days after a court ruled that government approvals for two planned UK fields were unlawful.
Marathon Petroleum booked an adjusted net income of $249 million, or $0.77 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2024. This is significantly lower compared to the adjusted net income of $1.5 billion, or $3.98 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2023.
Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC is moving some of its natural gas and green energy assets in the United States into its recently created $80-billion international energy investment company, the CEO of the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates says.
BP is about to make a big bet on Iraq—again. After years of false starts, geopolitical chaos, and stalled negotiations, the British oil major is reportedly gearing up to invest up to $25 billion in Iraq’s Kirkuk oil and gas fields. That’s according to a senior Iraqi official who spoke to Reuters in an exclusive.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United rose by 5.025 million barrels for the week ending January 24. Analysts had expected a 3.17-million-barrel build.
Crude oil prices started trade today with a dip despite the latest news around President Donald Trump who on Tuesday confirmed he would be returning to a maximum pressure approach to Iran, aiming to reduce its oil exports to zero, and said he wants the U.S. to take over the Gaza Strip and develop it.
U.S. upstream earnings in 2024 were $6.426 billion and non-U.S. upstream earnings last year were $18.964 billion, the release highlighted. In 2023, U.S. upstream earnings came in at $4.202 billion and non-U.S. upstream earnings were $17.106 billion, the results statement pointed out.
Traders are closely watching storage levels amid fears that the market could tighten this summer as Europe needs more gas to replenish its depleting inventories. That makes restocking a challenge ahead of next winter, especially as summer gas contracts are trading above those for the following heating season.