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...The bulk of them are oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil and Chevron of the US, South Korea’s SK and GS conglomerates, Canada’s Imperial Oil, Austria’s OMV, Saudi Aramco — and the Abu Dhabi National...
...Selecting Gulf Oil as his target in late 1993, the oilman first assembled a stake in the company, then launched an offer to buy 15 per cent more, all the while agitating for Gulf’s directors to find ways...
...But it may nonetheless turn up at the bargaining table so it does not lose highly prized US shale oil assets as well as a natural gas project in Mozambique and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico that Anadarko...
...Outgoing Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne is set to name a successor and a new strategy in the spring, in a move that will indicate whether the company still intends to sell itself....
...That is well below the level needed by the UK oil majors to break even in their upstream exploration and production businesses....
...They include majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total, Statoil and BG as well as Malaysia’s Petronas, Lukoil of Russia, Anglo-Australian resources company BHP Billiton and ONGC Videsh of India....
...Blass travels the hinterlands of Britain’s North Sea coast, from Shetland to the Thames Estuary, and visits Belgian seaside resorts and Dutch polders, meeting oil riggers, artists and fishermen as he goes...
...China, for example, is trying to push its utilities and manufacturers to switch to natural gas, which burns more cleanly than oil or coal, as a power source....
...Recent studies have shown Australia is the most expensive offshore exploration and production location in the world – three times as expensive as the US Gulf Coast, and slightly more than Norway....
...John Watson, chief executive of Chevron, the oil group, said the country was “poised to regain its status as an energy superpower”....
...The transaction, worth $1.02bn in total, was announced by Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (SIPC), part of the wholly state-owned parent group....
...In 2005, Chevron offered to buy Unocal, the ninth-biggest US oil company, for $16.7bn excluding debt. But Cnooc, largely unknown in the country, quickly trumped Chevron’s bid with an offer of $18.5bn....
...In August, Pemex, the Mexican national energy company, reported its first deepwater oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, after 19 unsuccessful exploration wells....
...A former head of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the state-owned oil company, he is widely respected in energy circles....
...Most recently, it was granted minority stakes in two new oil exploration blocks awarded to Cobalt and BP in December, according to company announcements....
...A $5.5bn (£3.5bn) order from Air Lease Corporation for 60 of Boeing’s new 737 Max jetliners is likely to be one of the biggest unveiled at the show - Gulf rivals vie for Marriotts: Abu Dhabi and Qatar...
...Dudley talked about being “on the right path”, and said BP planned to push back even further the frontiers of deep-water oil exploration....
...But the Chinese never quite arrived, BP was distracted by difficulties in the Gulf of Mexico, Russia and Libya, and Kosmos decided eventually not to sell....
...Standard Oil’s successors, ExxonMobil and Chevron, are two of the world’s four largest private sector oil groups, and make up a large part of another, BP....
...George Kirkland, the head of exploration and production at Chevron, the second-largest US oil company, told the Financial Times that the combined effects of the moratorium and the subsequent “permitorium...
...Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the state oil company with 10 wholly-owned subsidiaries, dominates the country’s energy industry....
...into the bidding for gulf oil drilling rights: The Obama administration has infuriated environmentalists by giving BP the green light to bid for new drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico - U.K. economy...
...$3.2bn in three US projects run by Atlas Energy and Chevron, Pioneer Natural Resources, and Carrizo Oil & Gas....
...The biggest single oil producer is the Waha Oil Company, a joint venture between National Oil Corporation and Conoco-Phillips, Hess and Marathon, according to African Energy, an industry publication....
...When he was announced as Tony Hayward’s successor in July, he talked about using asset sales to “reset” BP, “to create more of a growth company”, selling mature, declining oil and gas fields and retaining...
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