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...Following pressure from activists, BlackRock joined Climate Action 100+, which chivvies energy companies to cut emissions and announced new green funds. Some see that as good stewardship....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Pioneer Natural Resources, Apache Corporation, Noble Energy and Conocho Resources were among the biggest laggards on the benchmark index after their latest results missed expectations and forecasts for production...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Silver Run Acquisition Corp II, which has since bought two energy companies, raised more than $1bn in the year’s biggest Spac listing....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Since May, the number of rigs drilling horizontal shale oil wells in the US has risen by 77 to 325, according to the oilfield services company Baker Hughes....
...Ratings for Chevron as well as EOG Resources, Apache and Devon Energy, three large independent oil and gas producers, were cut but remained investment grade....
...Apache said it would defer some completions, without giving a number, while Chesapeake Energy said it planned to build a “little bit of inventory” in uncompleted wells in the Eagle Ford shale....
..., Apache and Anadarko Petroleum....
...Other larger companies including Marathon Oil, Apache, Devon Energy and Chesapeake Energy also have debt burdens that seem manageable....
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...In the past 12 months, the materials sector has returned less than 2 per cent and was one of the worst performing sectors on the US benchmark, after energy and telecom services....
...energy sources....
...Ceres identified companies including Chesapeake Energy, EOG Resources, ExxonMobil and Anadarko Petroleum, Encana, Pioneer Natural Resources and Apache as among the heaviest users of water and those potentially...
...Companies such as Apache, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Wintershall, Total and Americas Petrogas have Vaca Muerta interests but are showing no sign of rushing to large scale development....
...So while a dead cow and some monkeys may hold the key to untold energy riches for energy-strapped Argentina, finding companies prepared to invest may be more of a struggle, at least in the short-term....
...“It does seem to have some similarities to some very productive US plays,” agrees Robert Clarke, manager of the unconventional gas service at Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy....
...Meanwhile, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said it was investigating an incident on Apache Corporation’s natural gas production platform off Lake Charles, Louisiana, on...
...It can also import real-time data for better energy management. Novell fights for Sun customers The gloves are off....
...“Small, lesser-capitalised operators in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico are toast,” says Ralph Eads, chairman of the energy investment banking group at Jefferies....
...Mariner Energy, an oil and natural gas producer, jumped 42 per cent to $25.68 on news it is to be acquired by Apache Corp , the second-largest independent US oil producer by market capitalisation, for $2.7bn...
...The estimated value of the investments was detailed in a report dated May 28 sent to investors in the TPG Partners V fund....
...But this week it said it would resume partial services only in mid-August and did not expect to be fully operational until December....
...Apache, the US energy group that operates the facility some 100km offshore, has said it will be about two months before normal services resume....
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