Brazil’s energy ministry has proposed measures to raise around 35 billion reais ($6.2 billion) from the oil industry over the next two years to help the government meet its fiscal targets.
The deal marks a rare consolidation move among two of the biggest publicly traded owners of mineral rights and royalties in the U.S. shale patch. It’s also the second major transaction for Viper this year, after its $4.5 billion acquisition of certain minerals and royalties from Diamondback announced in January.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed a new executive order introducing performance-based tax incentives to reduce project costs and boost investment in upstream oil and gas operations, the Special Adviser to the President on Energy Olu Verheijen announced on Thursday.
The Government of Ghana, together with Tullow Oil plc, Kosmos Energy PetroSA, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Explorco have jointly announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend the West Cape Three Points and Deep Water Tano licences to 2040, which cover the Jubilee and TEN fields in Ghana.
In a market increasingly governed by geopolitical tremors and macroeconomic mismatches, crude oil dipping below $65 per barrel seems like a gift to global consumers. But behind that price tag lies a slow-moving crisis for U.S. shale producers, many of whom are being forced to pull back on production, delay capital projects, and recalculate what sustainability means in a low-margin world.
It is highly unlikely that anyone with even a modicum of intelligence has lost money in the past ten years or so by trading against the predictable thinking of those in charge of Saudi Arabia’s oil policy. Quite the reverse, in fact, with enormous profits available from the failures of the enormously well-flagged and exceptionally predictable strategy of the 2014-2016 and 2020 Oil Price Wars — launched by the Kingdom with the intention of destroying or disabling the U.S. shale oil sector, as analysed in full in my latest book on the new global oil market order. As OPEC members and their toxic companion in the OPEC+ formation, Russia, mull keeping oil production on the high side of recent historical averages, the key question for the oil markets is — surely they are not going to launch another oil price war using the same strategy as failed twice before?
Saudi Aramco has completed a USD 5-billion bond issuance in three tranches under its Global Medium Term Note Program, the company announced on Monday.
The transaction was priced on May 27, 2025 and listed on the London Stock Exchange. The offering consists of three tranches of senior notes: USD 1.5 billion maturing in 2030 with a coupon rate of 4.750%, USD 1.25 billion maturing in 2035 with a coupon rate of 5.375% and USD 2.25 billion maturing in 2055 with a coupon rate of 6.375%.
North America dropped five rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on May 30.
The U.S. dropped three rigs week on week and Canada cut two during the same timeframe, taking the total North America rig count down to 675, comprising 563 rigs from the U.S. and 112 rigs from Canada, the count outlined.
On Monday, Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira presented measures to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that include selling oil exploration licenses and a review of the reference prices used to calculate oil taxes, the ministry said in a message. If approved, it would be an alternative to a controversial increase in tax rates on some financial transactions.
West Texas Intermediate gained 2.8% to settle near $63 a barrel after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies agreed on Saturday to add 411,000 bpd of supply in July though some members objected, including Russia. With a handful of countries lobbying for a pause in July, banks are now split on how many more hikes will come in subsequent months.