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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • March 15, 2022

Democrats Soften on Climate As Reality Suddenly Appears?

Democrats Soften on Climate As Reality Suddenly Appears? Paul DriessenSenior Policy Analyst, CFACT …. ….  [Editor’s Note: Democrats in Congress have gotten an awakening as to energy reality as Biden and European green policies have produced unacceptable oil and gas prices.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 14, 2021

Climate Change Political Correctness Is Dead End Appeasement

climate change Kevin MooneyThe Commonwealth Foundation … . [Editor’s Note: Kevin Mooney suggests climate change capitulation seems to be the current policy of oil and gas majors and is completely self-defeating; a dead-end policy that will achieve zilch.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 29, 2020

XOM, Jera ink MoU on Vietnam LNG-to-power project

ExxonMobil and Jera signed on Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on the potential construction of an LNG-to-power project in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 16, 2020

Research Chief Delivers Coup de Grâce Response to Harvard Researchers’ Debunked #ExxonKnew Paper

Circular arguments tend to occur when a speaker cherry picks information with the sole intent of arriving at a predetermined set of conclusions.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • September 22, 2020

XOM, Global Thermostat extend carbon capture research

ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat have announced that they have extended their joint development agreement, after 12 months of technical evaluation looking into the feasibility and potential of Global Thermostat’s technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • September 14, 2020

Echoes Of New York’s Failure: Connecticut Files Climate Lawsuit

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging deception over climate change impacts, rehashing the same, unfounded “Exxon Knew” claims that were unsuccessfully pushed in the failed New York Attorney General’s case against the company.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • September 9, 2020

ExxonMobil makes new discovery offshore Guyana

ExxonMobil has announced its 18th offshore Guyana crude oil discovery at the Redtail-1 well, Kallanish Energy reports. That discovery will add to the 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels projected from the Stabroek Block.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • September 2, 2020

Four Things To Know About Hoboken’s New Climate Lawsuit

The city of Hoboken, New Jersey joined the so far fruitless climate litigation campaign on Wednesday,  filing a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • August 4, 2020

ExxonMobil posts second quarter loss of $1.1 billion

U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil has recorded net losses of $1.08 billion for second-quarter as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic hit production and prices, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • July 28, 2020

Activists Convinced Minnesota Attorney General To File Climate Lawsuit

A Minnesota activist group completely blew the cover of the entire climate litigation campaign by acknowledging how closely private individuals and organizations have coordinated with state attorneys general to promote lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • July 28, 2020

In Ironic Twist, Mass. AG Shoots Down Municipal Fossil Fuel Ban

In an ironic twist of events, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey struck down a Boston suburb’s attempt to implement a fossil fuel ban last week after her office found that it conflicted with state regulations.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • July 27, 2020

What Year Is It? BBC Rehashes #ExxonKnew Using the Same Old Sources

The BBC is the latest legacy media institution that’s done a deep dive into the “Exxon Knew” campaign and churned out a 10-part podcast series that features very little in the way of new reporting but includes plenty of biased voices looking to smear the energy industry.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • July 1, 2020

Qatargas, XOM reject Petronet’s force majeure claims

Qatargas and ExxonMobil have rejected force majeure notices issued by Petronet LNG, claimed due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on demand, the Indian company said Tuesday.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 25, 2020

Four Things to Know About Washington D.C.’s New Climate Lawsuit

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell today for allegedly misleading District consumers about the role the companies’ products play in causing climate change.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 25, 2020

Three Things to Know About Minnesota’s New Climate Lawsuit

On Wednesday, Minnesota became the latest state to file a climate lawsuit against the energy industry. This marks the first lawsuit of this kind to be filed after the failure of the New York Attorney General’s case against ExxonMobil last fall.  At
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 16, 2020

Chevron, Shell lead industry’s resilience at $30/Bbl Brent: WoodMac

Chevron and Shell’s upstream portfolios are the most resilient at oil price at $30 a barrel and offer the highest cash margins at $70/Bbl, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 15, 2020

Vietnam welcomes XOM’s interest in LNG-to-power opportunities

Vietnam government said last week U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil is considering to invest in the country’s power sector, through LNG-to-power plants, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 10, 2020

Activists Now Suggest Exxon is Responsible For…A Global Hacking Ring?

Here they go again. The people who concocted, financed and executed the “Exxon Knew” charade appear to have launched a new attack in their crusade to “establish in public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution.”
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 10, 2020

Massachusetts AG Files Amended Complaint, Drops Claim Featured in Failed New York Attorney General Case

On Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving Massachusetts investors and consumers about climate change-related risks.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 8, 2020

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Mass. Attorney General Admits Intention to Ban Fossil Fuel Use

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey called on the state’s Department of Public Utilities to investigate “the future of the natural gas industry” in Massachusetts this week, alleging that the use of the fuel didn’t align with the state’s 2050 climate goals.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 5, 2020

Mozambique’s LNG projects on track despite Covid-19: official

Mozambique’s national petroleum institute INP said on Thursday the country’s natural gas and liquefaction projects remain in line with the schedule agreed between the government and investing companies.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • May 29, 2020

Reminder: Massachusetts Case Likely Faces Same Fate as New York

U.S. District Judge William Young issued an opinion today on his March decision to remand Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil to state court.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • May 29, 2020

Shell, XOM to seek arbitration against Netherlands: report

Shell and ExxonMobil will file an arbitration claim against the Netherlands government over compensation for the early closure of gas field, according to Global Arbitration Review (GAR).
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • May 13, 2020

Catalyst Organization Behind #ExxonKnew Acknowledges It Knew Too

A key organizer and funder of the “Exxon Knew” campaign – which hinges on the debunked allegation that ExxonMobil knew about climate change long before the public and subsequently tried to cover up this knowledge and mislead the public – also credits itself for its “early recognition” of the issue in the 1980s.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • May 11, 2020

XOM, partners plan spending cuts at Sakhalin-1

ExxonMobil and partners are mulling cost cuts on their Sakhalin-1 project in Russia’s Far East due to current market conditions. Operator Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL) reportedly said on Friday it’s adjusting its schedule and scope of certain activities.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • May 7, 2020

Oil and Gas Is More Than Energy; It’s A Socially Responsible Industry

Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The oil and gas sector has been leading virus relief efforts wherever it operates.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 28, 2020

ExxonMobil Making 160,000 Gallons of Hand Sanitizer!

Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Kurt reports that ExxonMobil has reconfigured manufacturing operations in Louisiana to produce 160,000 gallons sanitizer for COVID-19 response efforts in six states!
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 14, 2020

XOM testing eight methane-detection technologies

ExxonMobil says it is conducting field tests of eight emerging methane detection technologies at nearly 1,000 sites in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 6, 2020

Oil and Natural Gas Industry Responds to COVID-19 with Charitable and Community Assistance

As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, the oil and natural gas industry has stepped up to meet the challenge with charitable contributions.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 17, 2020

In Hearing on Massachusetts’ Exxon Lawsuit, Echoes of Failed New York Case

A federal district court in Massachusetts remanded Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil back to state court today after a hearing over the proper jurisdiction for the case.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 6, 2020

Mozambican learders must tackle security issues: Ayuk

Mozambican leaders must tackle security problems emerging in sites where international companies are developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, NJ Ayuk, chairman of the African Energy Chamber warned this week.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 6, 2020

ExxonMobil to earmark $33B on 2020 capital spending

Population growth, an expanding middle class and global prosperity are driving a worldwide demand for oil, natural gas and chemicals, according to ExxonMobil.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • February 6, 2020

Tillerson: Not sure humans can impact climate change

Former Secretary of State and ex-CEO of ExxonMobil Rex Tillerson told an industry conference in Houston he questions whether there is anything humans can do to combat climate change, Bloomberg reported.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 31, 2020

A Battle of Interference: New York Attorney General Seeks to Block Group’s Effort to Intervene

On January 27, the New York attorney general filed a motion opposing Energy Policy Advocates’ (EPA) and Robert Schilling’s motion to intervene in the attorney general’s “ill-conceived” securities fraud lawsuit against ExxonMobil.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 14, 2020

Oil markets will have to rethink global supply predictions

There could be a reworking of oil market expectations regarding an “ample” global oil supply, Bahrain’s oil minister said Monday, despite expectations U.S.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 13, 2020

It’s Official: New York’s Case Against ExxonMobil Is Over

Well, that’s all she wrote, folks! A month after losing what was once called “the trial of the century,” the New York Attorney General has chosen not to appeal New York Supreme Court Justice Barry R.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • December 16, 2019

Rockefeller Director Disappointed That the Rockefeller-Funded Exxon Investigation Failed

Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) executive director Lee Wasserman, the instigator of the New York attorney general’s (NYAG’s) investigation and lawsuit against ExxonMobil, seemed disappointed to learn the limits of his attempts to use public officials to prosecute his enemies after the New York Supreme Court cleared the company of any wrongdoing.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • December 12, 2019

From a ‘BIG DEAL’ to No Comment, Here’s How ‘Exxon Knew’ Activists Reacted to Losing the Climate Case They Had Championed

Prior to the trial in the New York attorney general’s (NYAG’s) case against ExxonMobil, climate activists and members of the media were certain the NYAG’s lawsuit would be the nail in the coffin for the fossil fuel industry.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 11, 2019

XOM beats New York’s climate-change accounting case

New York state’s Attorney General failed to prove ExxonMobil (XOM) mislead shareholders over the true cost of climate change, a judge ruled Tuesday, ending the supermajor’s four-year battle against the state, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 10, 2019

New York’s Loss Against Exxon Casts a Shadow on Related Cases Filed in Massachusetts, Elsewhere

After four years, three different legal theories, four million documents, hundreds of hours of depositions, 11 embarrassing days of trial for the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and a month long wait, the verdict is in: ExxonMobil did not deceive or mislead investors over climate change impacts.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • December 6, 2019

Shady Climate Group ‘Releases’ Industry Documents That Were Already Publicly Available

Kert Davies’ Climate Investigations Center (CIC) is at it again, trying to create a scandal by releasing cherry-picked documents from Imperial Oil’s publicly available archive, even as CIC was slammed by a non-profit group Thursday for “using dishonest and potentially unlawful business practices and wasting tax dollars to engage in its investigations.”
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 4, 2019

ExxonMobil Moves Massachusetts AG’s “Political” Lawsuit to Federal Court

Citing the transparent political motives and national focus of Massachusetts Attorney General (MAAG) Maura Healey’s lawsuit, lawyers for ExxonMobil have moved the MAAG’s case to federal court, according to a filing from last week.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 22, 2019

XOM raises assets sales with $25 billion plan: sources

ExxonMobil (XOM) is enlarging its biggest asset sale in decades, with plans to divest up to $25 billion of gas and oilfields in Europe, Asia and Africa, banking sources told Reuters.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 20, 2019

ExxonMobil Lambasts Massachusetts, New York Attorneys General for “Unconstitutional Conduct”

Recent developments in the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) lawsuit against ExxonMobil provide “further evidence of the coordinated, ongoing assault on ExxonMobil’s First Amendment rights,” by the NYAG and Massachusetts Attorney General (MAAG) Maura Healey, a letter filed by the company last Friday states.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 13, 2019

Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Toss Out the First Amendment to Eliminate Oil and Gas

Throughout her campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has made dismantling the oil and natural gas sector a hallmark of her policy agenda.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 11, 2019

Aramco will offer less than 1% of shares to individuals

Saudi Aramco will sell up to 0.5% of its shares to individual investors in what could be the largest initial public offering in history, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 8, 2019

Exxon Attorney Calls New York’s Lawsuit a ‘Cruel Joke’ in Defiant Closing Statement

ExxonMobil attorney Ted Wells unleashed a brutal takedown of the New York Attorney General’s case in his closing arguments Thursday, criticizing the State’s inept performance and highlighting their inability to prove any of the allegations leveled against the company.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 7, 2019

XOM, FuelCell expand carbonate fuel cell pact

ExxonMobil (XOM) and FuelCell Energy said Wednesday they’ve signed a new, two-year, expanded joint-development agreement to further enhance carbonate fuel cell technology, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • November 5, 2019

XOM says banning fracking will aid foreign producers

Banning hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. will aid foreign oil producers at the expense of the American economy, an ExxonMobil (XOM) executive said Friday.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • November 1, 2019

XOM didn’t deceive investors on climate change: Tillerson

ExxonMobil’s leadership tried to understand how new climate regulations would impact the supermajor’s bottom line, former CEO and ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a court Wednesday, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 28, 2019

Trump wants deal with XOM, or others to tap Syrian oil

President Trump said Sunday he’s interested in making a deal with ExxonMobil or another producer to tap Syrian oil reserves, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 16, 2019

ExxonMobil Planning to Build A Second Cracker Plant in Pennsylvania?

Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) ExxonMobil is looking to do a cracker in Western Pennsylvania or environs and it could be in the same vicinity as Shell’s.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • October 15, 2019

Oil replacement rate hits 20-year low

Oil and natural gas companies have discovered 7.7 billion barrels of oil-equivalent (Bboe) year-to-date, according to Rystad Energy’s latest global discoveries report, Kallanish Energy learns.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • September 6, 2019

Xom to sell Norway assets for $4B

U.S. giant ExxonMobil has agreed to the sale of its oil and gas assets in Norway for $4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • August 9, 2019

NY AG Attempts to Block ExxonMobil Document Discovery Ahead of Trial

As the October 23rd trial date approaches in the New York Attorney General’s (NY AG) lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of misleading its investors on the risks that climate change poses to its business, the AG’s office is hard at work trying to prevent the company from obtaining discovery documents that could be crucial to its defense.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • August 9, 2019

Xom hires Jefferies to accelerate North Sea asset sales

U.S. oil supermajor ExxonMobil (Xom) has hired investment bank Jefferies to sell the stakes it holds in gas and oilfields off the Norwegian coast, which could fetch up to $4 billion, sources told Reuters.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • July 12, 2019

California governor fires state’s top oil regulator

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday ordered his secretary of Natural Resources to fire Ken Harris, the state’s top oil regulator, after learning from media reports and watchdog groups fracking permits have doubled without his knowledge since he took office, and seven supervisors regulating the industry own shares in major oil companies.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • July 9, 2019

Midstreamer Lucid Energy inks pact with XTO

Lucid Energy Group Tuesday announced the company has executed a new, long-term natural gas gathering and processing agreement with ExxonMobil unit XTO Energy, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 28, 2019

W&T Offshore acquiring Xom assets in GoM for $200M

W&T Offshore said Thursday it’s acquiring ExxonMobil’s interests in and operatorship of oil- and gas-producing properties in the eastern region of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Alabama, and related onshore processing facilities for $200 million, Kallanish Energy reports.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • June 14, 2019

Judge in Exxon Case to NY AG: Stop Stalling

New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience.
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