U.S. Offshore

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March 10, 2021
The sustained OPEC+ production curtailment through April suggests that supply will remain constrained in the near term, even as demand continues to increase. As a result, the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects that further inventory withdrawals to meet rising crude oil demand will support crude oil prices through at least the end of April.
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March 10, 2021
The U.S. company is buying back stock at an annualized rate of $1.5 billion, it said Tuesday in a statement. That’s an increase of 50% compared with the pace of repurchases in the fourth quarter, the point at which the program was suspended in the wake of Conoco’s acquisition of rival producer Concho Resources Inc.
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March 10, 2021
The seven-figure deal will see Sparrows’ Houston team deliver crane inspection, maintenance, testing and repair services at two onshore facilities and a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
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March 09, 2021
The move by senators Steve Daines of Montana and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming underscores deep opposition from many Senate Republicans over the Biden administration’s plans for managing the nation’s federal lands and waters.
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March 08, 2021
Oil fell the most in a week as the dollar strengthened and investors shrugged off an attack on the world’s largest crude terminal in Saudi Arabia.
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March 08, 2021
The world’s biggest crude exporter is boosting April pricing for crude exports eastwards to the highest levels since just before the Saudis unleashed a brief price and supply war a year ago.
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March 08, 2021
Yemen's Houthi rebels have stepped up assaults on Saudi Arabia and last week claimed they hit a Saudi Aramco fuel depot in Jeddah with a cruise missile. It wasn’t clear how much damage had been caused. While such assaults rarely result in extensive damage, their frequency has created unease in the Gulf.
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March 08, 2021
Saudi Arabia said a storage tank at Ras Tanura in the country’s Gulf coast was attacked on Sunday by a drone from the sea. The terminal is capable of exporting roughly 6.5 million barrels a day -- nearly 7% of oil demand -- and as such one of the world’s most protected installations.
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March 05, 2021
Senator Ted Cruz is delaying William Burns’s confirmation as CIA director to demand that the Biden administration do more to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as Republicans seek to ramp up pressure now that construction has resumed.
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March 05, 2021
The companies that frac wells and make the equipment necessary to produce oil cut an estimated 12,321 jobs over a three-month stretch ending in February, according to an analysis of labor market data by the industry-funded Energy Workforce & Technology Council.
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March 05, 2021
The surprise move by OPEC+ to maintain oil supply restrictions through April, coupled with Saudi Arabia’s decision to extend voluntary curbs, has stunned the global energy market. Prices surged again on Friday, with West Texas Intermediate topping $65 a barrel, and Brent climbing above $68.
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March 04, 2021
Providing more detail on Exxon’s recently-announced efforts to commercialize low-carbon technologies, CEO Darren Woods stressed that partnering with outside investors would be a key objective. It would also mean Exxon would not need to fund large projects solely with its own cash.
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March 04, 2021
Oil prices surged to the highest levels in nearly two years after the OPEC+ alliance surprised traders with its decision to keep output unchanged, signaling a tighter crude market in the months ahead.
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March 04, 2021
Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ allies stunned the oil market with a decision to keep supply in check, sending prices surging and adding inflationary pressure to the global economy as it emerges from the pandemic.
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March 04, 2021
Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corporation, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California.
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March 04, 2021
While the Biden administration promises to create millions of jobs on the march to carbon-neutral energy, the work that will be created won't look, or pay, like that with which oil and gas crews are accustomed.
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March 04, 2021
Secretary Granholm proposed a progressive agenda for energy research and innovation, to help the Biden Administration achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and carbon/pollution-free energy generation by 2035.
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March 03, 2021
Jennifer Granholm used her first speech as U.S. Energy Secretary to warn oil and gas companies they risk being left behind unless they embrace a transition to cleaner sources of energy, while also offering them an opportunity to partner with the new administration.
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March 03, 2021
This year's oil rally has paved the way for the alliance to unleash some barrels, with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo saying on Tuesday that both the wider economic outlook and oil-market fundamentals continue to improve.
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March 03, 2021
The leaders of Saudi Aramco and Chevron see the market for oil and gas improving this year, with some momentum in the back half. But that outlook is tempered by the fact that the pandemic has forced some changes to the way that business is conducted.
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