Sunday, April 20, 2025

Marathon Petroleum Earns $3.43 Billion in 2017, $5.5 Billion MPLX Offering

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (ticker: MPC) earned $2.02 billion, or $4.09 per diluted share, in Q4 2017. This is significantly more than in Q4 2016, where the company had earnings of $227 million, or $0.43 per diluted share. FY 2017 earnings saw a significant increase as well – $3.43 billion, or $6.70 per diluted share. Compared to FY 2016’s $1.17 billion,

RPC, Inc. Increases Revenue by 93.4% to $427.3 Million

RPC, Inc. (ticker: RES) announced today its unaudited results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2017. For the quarter ended December 31, 2017, revenues increased by 93.4% to $427.3 million, compared to $221.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2016. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2017, revenues increased by 118.8% to $1.6 billion compared to $729.0 million for 2016. Net income for the twelve-month period was $162.5

Kuwait Petroleum and Shell Sign 15-Year Agreement

Royal Dutch Shell plc (ticker: RDS.A) and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. have signed an LNG contract that secures Kuwait’s domestic energy needs for the next 15 years. A private source told Bloomberg that the contract will cover 2-3 million metric tons of LNG a year, all while undercutting Brent benchmark prices by 11%. “The big issue for Kuwait is they burn