Second-quarter financial reporting season is over and it has revealed two things. First, that Big Oil’s recovery from its energy transition experiment is still ongoing and that European supermajors have yet to catch up with their American sector players—on production and earnings alike.
Crude oil prices were headed for a steep weekly drop as of Friday morning, with a combination of tariff fears and OPEC+ production instilling a strong sense of bearishness in oil traders.
Under the terms of the deal, JERA will purchase the gas on a free-on-board basis at a price indexed to Henry Hub, and will pay a fixed liquefaction fee. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2029 and are expected to continue until 2050.
Golar LNG announced that Southern Energy S.A. (SESA) has reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) for the 20-year charter of Golar’s 3.5 mtpa MK II floating LNG (FLNG) unit. The decision follows definitive agreements signed between the parties in May 2025.
Occidental has signed four agreements to divest select Permian basin assets, generating approximately $950 million in proceeds to support continued debt reduction.
Civitas Resources announced two major updates on Aug. 6: the reinstatement of a capital return program and a leadership transition that places Board Chair Wouter van Kempen in the role of interim CEO.
ConocoPhillips has signed an agreement to sell its assets in the Anadarko basin for $1.3 billion, a move that pushes the company past its $2 billion divestiture goal ahead of schedule and reinforces its strategy to optimize its Lower 48 portfolio.
Yinson Production has completed the buy-out of the project loan tied to FPSO Atlanta from Brava Energia S.A., paying a total of approximately $257.4 million in cash, including $255.5 million in principal and $1.9 million in accrued interest.
Russia’s crude oil and condensate exports have declined slightly since 2022, but the bigger shift has come in where those barrels are going, according to new analysis released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Aug. 7.
Tullow now expects output of 40,000-45,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) for the year, down from 50,000-55,000 boepd projected earlier. It reported an average production of 40.6 kboepd in the first half, excluding Gabon.