Santos reported solid number for the second quarter 2021 and remains in line to hit full year targets. Shareholders will now be watching whether Santos will up its offer for Oil Search, which if successful would make the merged group Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer.
Schlumberger delivered another crushing blow to the oil and gas industry today by announcing it was cutting around a fifth of its workforce.
Baker Hughes has posted a bigger quarterly loss caused by impairment charges.
The chief executive of the Norwegian Oil Industry Association has warned access to new area of exploration is essential in order to boost revenue in the Scandinavian country.
Lamprell has said it expects its full-year revenue to be slightly below analysts' estimates after being hit by a deduction of $25million from its final payment made by Ensco caused by late delivery of a rig.
Nigeria’s economic slump deepened in the second quarter as a declining oil industry weighed on output.
Oil revenue to Norway from its state-owned fields contributed almost a third less in the first half of this year compared to 2015.
Nigeria’s government is set to carry the burden of boosting the economy as the central bank signaled it won’t ease currency controls that are hurting businesses. President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking to compensate for plunging oil revenue and the slowest growth in 16 years by boosting spending by a fifth to 6.1 trillion naira ($30.6 billion) this year. With Governor Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday resisting pressure to ease foreign-exchange restrictions and devalue the naira, fiscal stimulus may need to take the lead in sparking a rebound.
The drop in global oil price has meant a decrease in Norway’s overall tax revenue since last year.
TGS said its operating revenues were down by more than 50% in the final quarter of last year compared with the same time in 2014. The seismic company said it also expects its full year revenues to be down by one third, with weak market conditions expected to continue into 2016.
Nigeria’s government said it will boost spending by a fifth in next year’s budget without overstepping borrowing targets, even as oil revenue in Africa’s largest economy is set to fall. Under a three-year economic plan approved by the cabinet, expenditure will rise to 6 trillion naira ($30.2 billion), Budget and Planning Minister Udoma Udo Udoma told reporters late Monday in the capital, Abuja. Lawmakers last week authorized an increase of 466 billion naira in this year’s budget of 4.5 trillion naira to pay for fuel subsidies and troops fighting an Islamist insurgency in the northeast.
The UK Government made a loss from North Sea oil and gas in the first six months of this year, according to reports. According to The Herald, the revenues were more than cancelled out by repayments to producers between the months of April and September. While a total of £248million was collected from the industry in both corporation tax and petroleum revenue tax (PRT) around£287million was handed out in rebates following the downturn.
FMC Technologies has seen a drop in second quarter revenue which fell 15% from the year before. The company said the figure decreased from $1.99billion in 2014 to $1.70billion. This was mainly due to decline in North American land market and its impact on the subsea engineering specialist’s surface technologies revenue.
Signs that US interest rates will rise at a slower than expected pace pushed the FTSE 100 Index to a new record in the wake of yesterday’s Budget rally. London’s top-flight reached 6982 in early trading before falling back towards it opening mark at 7.5 points higher at 6952.4. The value of London’s leading shares climbed by 1.6% on Wednesday after the Chancellor confirmed tax breaks for the beleaguered North Sea energy industry as well as a boost for house builders with help for first-time buyers.
Libya’s National Oil Corp. declared force majeure at the ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf and will halt output at some oil fields because of fighting in the politically divided North African country. Armed factions should spare energy infrastructure in Libya, the state-run producer said in a statement on its website. Force majeure is in place at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, Libya’s largest and third-largest oil ports, with a combined capacity of 560,000 barrels a day. The measure is a legal status that protects a company from liability when it can’t fulfill a contract for reasons beyond its control.
Investing in new plant has paid off for Saltire Energy after the oil drilling equipment rental firm posted a 10% rise in revenues. Accounts filed at Companies House showed that the Portlethen-based company turned over £36.3million in the year to 30 June, up from just under £33million in the previous 12 months. Pre-tax profits edged up by 3% to £17.7million after a rise in the costs of distribution and sales, including the investment in new rental gear. Writing in the directors’ report, chief executive Mike Loggie said: “The group’s rentals have continued to show considerable growth.
New Zealand-focused oil and gas explorer Kea Petroleum has seen a spike in profits as a result of hydrocarbon sales. The company announced its preliminary results for the year ending May 2014, with revenue increasing to £2,087,000, up from £829,000 in 2013. Kea said the increase was associated with the production of hydrocarbons from Puka-1 and Puka-2.