In the second quarter, Norway’s Equinor sees a positive impact of $400 million to $550 million from trade in natural gas derivatives used to hedge its physical deliveries.
The upgrade will result in post-tax impairment reversals of $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion. Shell wrote down more than $22 billion in 2020 when the pandemic led to an oil price collapse.
As a result of the agreements to sell portions of its assets located in the Bakken and Uinta basins, Ovintiv said it has elected to accelerate the doubling of its cash returns to shareholders starting immediately.
The largest refiner among the oil majors, Exxon Mobil will be a key beneficiary of a tight refined products market, analysts said.
The strong performance of oil and gas stocks in the first half of 2022 marked a stark change in fortunes for a sector that has been on the ropes for years.
The new company, Chord Energy based in Houston, has a premier Williston Basin position with top tier assets across approximately 972,000 net acres and a pledge to return 60% of its free cash flow to shareholders.
Chevron, currently based in San Ramon, California, is expected to shift its headquarters to the new site during the third quarter of 2023.
Oil producers including Murphy Oil are using cash from oil sales to clean their balance sheets and boost distributions to shareholders.
The payments only relate to BP’s upstream operations in the country and do not include other corporate taxes such as its retail business.
Chesapeake Energy has a story to tell investors about being “frankly, the most compelling investment opportunity in the energy space right now,” CEO Nick Dell’Osso told Hart Energy in an exclusive interview.