California-based Chevron Corp. doesn’t plan on allocating more capex into its operations in Venezuela even though it still has U.S. approval to operate there, despite Washington sanctions.
Spain’s Repsol plans to double its oil production in Venezuela and continue with its diluent swap agreements with the OPEC country as approved by the U.S. government.
Conflict in the Middle East has enabled Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras to change the flow of its oil exports, with China being the primary beneficiary, followed by Europe.
Stratas Advisors says even with the reported drawdown in U.S. crude inventories, the price of Brent crude oil remains below the upward channel that had been in place since January of this year.
Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 95 MMbbl in the six most important petroleum futures and options contracts over the seven days ending on April 23.
Marathon Oil, Occidental, Continental Resources and others are reaching under the Permian’s popular benches for new drilling locations. Analysts think there are areas of the basin where the Permian’s deeper zones can compete for capital.
Chevron and Exxon Mobil are feeling the pinch of weak energy prices, particularly natural gas, and fuels margins that have cooled in the last year.
PrairieSky Royalty said the acquisition was funded with excess earnings from the CA$83 million (US$60.75 million) generated from operations.
Ascent Resources received a positive outlook from Fitch Ratings as the company has grown into Ohio’s No. 1 gas and No. 2 Utica oil producer, according to state data.
Tudor, Pickering, Holt and Co. (TPH) expects fairly tight heavy crude discounts in the U.S. this summer and beyond owing to lower imports of Canadian, Mexican and Venezuelan crudes.