Oil Price The Biden Administration aims to have crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) back up to the levels before the massive sales of 180 million barrels in the past two years, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. The U.S. saw the stockpiles of crude oil in the SPR fall from 638 million barrels
Nasdaq Canada’s second-biggest oil producer Suncor Energy Inc will cut 1,500 jobs by the end of this year, aiming to reduce costs and improve its financial performance, the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday, citing details from the Canadian Press. A Suncor spokeswoman confirmed to the Canadian Press that the job cuts would be spread across the organization and would affect both
In its Q4/year-end release, Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (ticker: GDP) said it has recently closed on the sale of certain production, facilities, infrastructure and a portion of its acreage in the Angelina River Trend to BP America Production Company. Goodrich said it will use a portion of the proceeds from the sale to pay off its revolver, with plans to accelerate
WPX Energy (ticker: WPX) reported Q4 2017 oil volumes of 75,200 BOPD, which was 68% higher than a year ago, and 16% higher than Q3 2017. WPX’s first two North Sunday Island wells in the Williston Basin have 120-day cumulative production of more than 576,000 BOE (81% oil), consisting of 298,000 BOE from the Hidatsa North 14-23HX well and 278,000
Marathon Oil Corporation (ticker: MRO) will have a $2.3 billion capital budget for 2018. The company said the budget is self-funding at $50 average WTI and will generate free cash flow at $60 average WTI. More than 90% will be directed to four U.S. resource plays. Almost 60% of the development budget will be allocated to the Eagle Ford and
Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (ticker: AAV) released Q4 2017 and year-end 2017 results today. The company added reserves, increased annual production by 16% and spent $249 million in 2017. Growing reserves PDP reserves increased 27% due to the recognition of 27 new Glacier wells that were brought on production through 2017 and higher reserves assignments on historical producing wells
