l ExxonMobil Corp. announced third-quarter 2025 earnings of $7.5 billion, up from $7.1 billion for second-quarter 2025 but down from $8.6 billion for third-quarter 2024. Year-to-date earnings totaled $22.3 billion, down from $26.1 billion for the same period last year. Exxon noted that this drop in earnings from a year ago was primarily due to […]
On Friday reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates, as production in Guyana and the Permian Basin hit records despite falling oil prices. Exxon’s net income fell 12% to $7.55 billion, or $1.76 per share, compared with $8.61 billion, or $1.92 per share, in the year-ago period. Excluding one-time items, the oil major earned […]
The Petroleum Commission has engaged Enterprise Singapore, the government agency responsible for driving Singapore’s external economy, to explore new investment opportunities in Ghana’s upstream petroleum sector. The meeting chaired by the Acting Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Mr. Nasir Alfa Mohammed, brought together senior officials from both organisations.
Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. upstream oil and gas sector fell for a third straight quarter, marking an end to blockbuster takeovers seen in recent years amid persistently low energy prices. According to Enverus Intelligence Research, deals worth $9.7 billion were closed in the third quarter, marking a 28% drop from the second quarter and putting the current year far below the record $192 billion recorded in 2023
Partly because of that supply increase, the Washington-based fund has upgraded its forecast for Saudi economic growth to 4% for this year, compared with an earlier estimate of 3%, according to the latest regional economic report published Tuesday.
West Texas Intermediate gained about 0.1% to settle near $62 a barrel, narrowly extending a winning streak to a third day. OPEC and its allies including Russia decided over the weekend on a 137,000-bpd hike, while Saudi Arabia kept the price of its main grade to Asia steady in a sign of caution, surprising traders who had expected a bump.
Saudi Arabia’s grand Vision 2030 ambitions may be colliding with a colder fiscal reality. Fitch Ratings warned Friday that Riyadh faces rising financial risks as oil prices soften and government spending balloons, threatening the kingdom’s plans for fiscal consolidation.
The sovereign wealth funds of Gulf petrostates continue to be the top state investors globally despite weaker oil prices this year. The share of sovereign wealth fund investments from the Middle East and North Africa in the global total was 40% for the first nine months of the year, cementing the funds’ leadership.
Earlier in the week, prices took a dip after news broke that Iraq, Turkey, and the Kurdistan regional government had finally reached a deal to restart exports from northern Iraq via the pipeline to Turkey. However, a follow-up revealed unresolved differences between two of the companies operating the fields in Kurdistan, which will delay the restart of exports.
The upward pressure on prices was back, however, as European pressure on Russia increases, with reports over the weekend of Russian aircraft entering Estonian airspace and neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea, plus airstrikes on western Ukraine that were close to the border with Poland.