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October 28, 2021
TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said it’s “too early” for the French oil major to consider spinning off its renewable-energy business because that segment may triple in value by 2025.
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October 28, 2021
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the great champion of his beloved but beleaguered state-owned oil giant, may be making his boldest move yet to keep it afloat.
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October 28, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell Plc mounted a robust defense against activist investor Dan Loeb’s bid to split the company, and pension funds that are dumping its shares, saying the company’s integration of oil, gas and renewables is key to delivering the energy transition.
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October 27, 2021
U.S. refiner Phillips 66 agreed to buy the rest of its pipeline affiliate that it doesn’t already own in an all-stock-deal valued at about $3.4 billion, the latest effort to streamline midstream operations.
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October 27, 2021
Activist investor Dan Loeb has built a position in Royal Dutch Shell Plc and is pushing for a breakup of the energy giant as it embraces renewable energy while continuing to pump oil and gas.
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October 27, 2021
Oil’s bumper rally cooled after an increase in U.S. crude inventories and as industrial commodities retreated.
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October 26, 2021
Negotiations over the climate provisions in the Democrats’ spending bill have accelerated and are focused on a package of measures that could replicate the emissions reductions of a clean energy plan dropped from the draft legislation.
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October 26, 2021
European Union energy ministers are set for another spat over how to cushion consumers and companies from soaring power and natural gas prices, with political and legal constraints leaving little room for immediate action.
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October 26, 2021
Europe’s energy crisis and a spike in natural gas prices are proving to be a boon for Norway, delivering a flood of revenue for the country that’s already one of the world’s richest.
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October 25, 2021
The culprit behind the latest jump in oil prices isn’t soaring natural gas prices or even OPEC+’s limits on output but rather what is happening at America’s largest oil storage hub in Oklahoma.
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October 25, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. is weighing salary increases as it tries to halt employee attrition across its business divisions after sweeping job and benefit cuts.
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October 25, 2021
Natural gas futures soared as forecasts for chilly November weather in the U.S. East heightened concern that supplies will struggle to meet demand this winter.
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October 25, 2021
A weather phenomenon that typically delivers harsher winters is on the way and expected to add to Asia’s energy crisis.
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October 25, 2021
Oil in the U.S. rallied above $85 a barrel for the first time since 2014, another landmark in a surge in global energy prices, while an eye-watering rally in market structure deepened.
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October 22, 2021
Could the era of cheap oil supply be gone for good? That’s the conclusion of some of the biggest commodities desks on Wall Street, where banks have been lifting their long-term price forecasts, often by $10 or more.
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October 22, 2021
Refiners across the U.S. Gulf Coast, Midwest and Eastern Canada are seeking oil that’s less dense and has less sulfur to avoid processing it through a unit that needs expensive natural gas.
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October 22, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to close two Houston-area office towers after a raft of unprecedented job cuts and employee departures over the past year and a half.
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October 22, 2021
Europe’s heading into winter facing an unprecedented energy squeeze, and politicians are trying to figure out how to stop their citizens freezing.
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October 22, 2021
Oil swung between gains and losses as traders weigh the ongoing impact of a global energy crunch and dwindling inventories at a key U.S. storage hub.
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October 21, 2021
An oil-data startup backed by Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder Joe Lonsdale plans to help energy explorers, bankers and investors figure out how much crude and natural gas reserves trapped underground are really worth.
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October 21, 2021
Time will tell which one is out of sync: Is it a forward oil curve that yields 11% on an annualized basis for investors, or is it a headline price of West Texas Intermediate crude near $83 a barrel?
