Industry & Analysis
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June 09, 2025
OPEC+’s oil-output hikes are part of a Saudi strategy that will see the kingdom embark on a long but shallow price war designed to recapture market share, Bank of America Corp.’s head of commodities research said.
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June 06, 2025
American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Mike Sommers issued a statement following the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule declaring the Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards exceeded the department's authority.
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June 06, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council has released its May 2025 jobs report, highlighting continued resilience in the energy services sector amid signs of a broader national labor market slowdown.
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June 05, 2025
“This decline in oil investment is driven by economic uncertainties, lower demand expectations and lower prices,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in an interview as the agency published its annual World Energy Investment report.
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June 05, 2025
Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, will cut about 10% of its workforce in a firm-wide restructuring as it looks to reduce costs due to falling crude prices. The company will reduce headcount by more than 5,000 people, said CEO Muhammad Taufik.
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June 05, 2025
API President and CEO Mike Sommers joined this week’s episode of Veriten’s C.O.B. Tuesday podcast to discuss the state of American energy policy as the Trump administration and Congress continue to make progress on many of the priorities outlined in API's five-point policy roadmap.
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June 04, 2025
Op-Ed: The media are reporting new predictions that oil production in America is in irreversible decline. Apparently, peak oil is back in vogue, like it’s 2005 instead of 2025. As a regulator of the nation’s largest oil and natural gas producing state, I’ve seen these scary headlines many times before, but here’s the good news: they are always wrong.
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June 04, 2025
Banks are staying confident in long-term energy fundamentals despite significant trade policy turbulence, according to the Spring 2025 Haynes Boone Energy Bank Price Deck Survey. The survey, now in its 12th edition, is a leading source of information for energy lenders and producers.
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June 03, 2025
On Monday, Brazilian Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira presented measures to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that include selling oil exploration licenses and a review of the reference prices used to calculate oil taxes, the ministry said in a message.
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June 02, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy is canceling some $3.7 billion allocated for clean energy projects under the Trump administration's orders. Among the canceled awards was $331 million for ExxonMobil to use hydrogen at its Baytown, Texas Olefins plant.
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June 02, 2025
Oil climbed after OPEC+ increased production less than some had feared and geopolitical concerns flared in Ukraine and Iran. WTI neared $63 a barrel after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies met on Saturday.
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June 02, 2025
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order aimed at drawing investment in the oil sector by lowering project costs, while protecting government revenue as the West African nation looks to grow output.
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June 02, 2025
The Trump administration is moving to repeal Biden-era curbs blocking oil drilling across most of the mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska that’s home to an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
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May 30, 2025
The Cooperative Republic of Guyana and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have concluded a two-day roadshow to promote access to a US $1-billion oil services financing facility announced by the Bank in February this year during the Guyana Energy Conference.
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May 30, 2025
Officials say the supply hikes reflect Saudi Arabia’s desire to punish over-producing members like Kazakhstan and Iraq, recoup market share lost to U.S. shale drillers and other rivals, and satisfy U.S. President Trump’s desire for cheaper oil.
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May 2025
Since 1929, the Independent Petroleum Association of America has represented independent producers’ interests at the federal level. This year offers/promises a new, more operator-friendly regulatory environment in Washington, D.C., that will be discussed/examined at the association’s Annual Meeting, which has shifted to a new time of the year
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May 30, 2025
bp Plc appointed oil industry veteran Dave Hager to the board, bolstering its efforts to refocus on fossil fuels and keep investors on side. Hager has been in the sector for more than 40 years, recently leading U.S. shale producer Devon Energy Corp. as chief executive and then executive chairman.
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May 29, 2025
Kazakhstan said it can’t cut oil production and even hopes to increase output beyond planned levels later this year, deepening a stand-off with OPEC+ before the group meets this weekend.
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May 29, 2025
ExxonMobil says it will be “business as usual” in its massive Guyana oil field if it loses its arbitration case against Chevron and Hess. Exxon and CNOOC have claimed right of first refusal over Hess’s stake in the offshore Stabroek block.
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May 29, 2025
Chevron plans to lay off approximately 200 employees in the Permian basin, the company announced in a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission. The TWC had mistakenly reported the number as 800 due to a data entry error, and it has since been corrected.
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May 28, 2025
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said the company will keep its capital allocation plans intact even if oil declines toward $50 a barrel. Exxon plans to bring on a 250,000 bpd expansion project in Guyana later this year, adding to global supplies.
