ConocoPhillips will reduce its workforce by 20–25% as part of a broad reorganization announced to employees this week, according to a new Reuters report. The company said reductions will occur across functions and geographies, with further details to be shared directly with staff through internal briefings.
“ConocoPhillips is one of our most important customers and long-term partners, and Aris has consistently demonstrated its ability to deliver reliable, full-cycle water infrastructure solutions. This extension represents a significant milestone for Aris – lengthening the acreage-weighted remaining term of our produced water contracts from approximately six years to over ten years”, Amanda Brock, President and CEO of Aris Water Solutions, said.
The Directorate reported that the Slagugle oil discovery, proven in 2020, holds an estimated 4.9 to 9.8 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent (approximately 30.8 to 61.6 million barrels of oil equivalent) in Triassic reservoir rocks. Additional potential volumes exist in the lower Are Formation and Upper Grey Beds. Licensees will now analyze the data to assess a possible development.
In February, ConocoPhillips said it would seek to boost returns to shareholders by nearly $1 billion this year as it booked better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2024. The company’s Q4 adjusted earnings reported in February were at $2.4 billion, or $1.98 per share, down from adjusted earnings of $2.9 billion, or $2.40 per share, for the same period a year earlier.
Marathon Oil survives as a subsidiary. Marathon Oil shareholders received 0.255 ConocoPhillips common shares for each common share they held at Marathon Oil. ConocoPhillips paid cash for fractional shares. The total enterprise value of $22.5 billion includes $5.4 billion of net debt accrued by Marathon Oil, according to the announcement of the merger agreement May 29.
ConocoPhillips has inked a natural gas supply deal with German Uniper that would see the U.S. major supply up to 10 billion cu m of gas to the German company annually over a period of 10 years.
With oil, gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) still running the global energy show as the crown jewels within the ebbs and flows in the worldwide energy demand, the European and U.S. oil majors – the UK’s duo Shell and BP, France’s TotalEnergies, and Italy’s Eni alongside U.S.-based trio: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips – have collected a staggering $31.65 billion in combined profit during the second quarter of 2024. BP, Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil, and Conoco Phillips are among the lucky ones, which beat analysts’ expectations. However, TotalEnergies and Chevron got the shorter end of the stick with their financial performance falling below forecasts.
ConocoPhillips has maintained that its $22.5 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil Corp. can be completed by the fourth quarter (Q4) despite facing an extended anti-trust review by the United States competition regulator.
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has approved a development plan allowing just three well pads for ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project in Alaska, reduced from the originally proposed five-pad project.