Sunday, February 2, 2025

Rising Oil Price Only Accelerates Free Cash: Parsley

In-basin sand is saving $500,000 per well By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 Parsley Energy (ticker: PE) announced first quarter results today, showing a net loss of $24.1 million, or ($0.09) per share. After excluding derivative losses and other special items, Parsley earned an adjusted $62.3 million, or $0.22 per share in the quarter. The company produced 125.4

Generating Cash: WPX Expects $100 Million in Free Cash Flow in 2019

Cash flow positive at current prices, midstream assets provide uplift By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 WPX Energy (ticker: WPX) announced first quarter earnings today, showing a net loss of $48 million, or ($0.11) per share. The rising oil prices resulted in a $207 million derivative loss this quarter, if this and other special charges are excluded WPX

Weatherford Proposes Reverse Split to Ward Off NYSE Delisting

From the Houston Chronicle Executives with Weatherford International are asking stockholders to vote for a reverse stock split plan that they believe will prevent the struggling oilfield service company from being delisted on New York Stock Exchange. As the company prepares to report its first quarter earnings on May 8, Weatherford’s board of directors released ballots on late Tuesday afternoon

The Next ‘Ferrari of Shale’ May Be Hiding in Australia’s Outback

From Bloomberg In a corner of outback Australia, a drilling crew will soon try tapping shale rocks that could hold more than three times the world’s annual consumption of natural gas. Origin Energy Ltd. plans to drill two wells later this year in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin, after the local government ended a three-year ban on fracking — the practice

EU Plans Sharp Hike in U.S. Energy Imports as Trade Lever

From Reuters The European Union will seek to double imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States by 2023, as part of its efforts to ease transatlantic trade tensions and reduce its reliance on Russian gas. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete hold a joint news conference at the EU Commission headquarters

Liquefied Natural Gas Plant, Australia

Exxon Investing $2 Billion In Baytown, Texas, Chemical Plant Expansion

From Reuters Exxon Mobil Corp plans to invest an additional $2 billion in a three-year expansion project at its Baytown, Texas, chemical complex, the company said on Thursday. Exxon will add a plant producing 400,000 tons of polymers a year and an olefins plant that will produce 350,000 tons of feedstocks for polyethylene, waxes and lubricating oils at Baytown by

‘For the Love of God’ Stop Raising Budgets, Oil Drillers Told

From Bloomberg Shale producers don’t seem to be getting the message. That’s the take from Houston-based Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., which had a few choice words for U.S. oil explorers that are hiking capital budgets at a time when investors are begging for discipline. “We’re struggling to comprehend why, when buy side, sell side, talking heads, and taxi drivers