2015

По нашим оценкам, только «Роснефть» может предложить европейским партнерам участие в проектах на сумму порядка $100 млрд., - заявил Глава «Роснефти». «Масштаб инвестиционной программы «Роснефти» предполагает один из крупнейших в мире якорных заказов, в первую очередь, на продукцию машиностроения и химпрома – порядка 4,6 млрд евро ежегодно, - отметил Игорь Сечин. – А совокупная потребность «Роснефти» в материально-технических ресурсах в 2016-2018 гг. составит € 15,9 млрд».

Sending gas to Europe doesn’t make commercial sense for Iran, says Matthew Bryza, former US assistant secretary for South Caucasus and former US ambassador to Azerbaijan.

BP and China Huadian Corporation (Huadian) today signed a sale and purchase agreement for BP to sell Huadian up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year worth up to $10 billion over the next 20 years.

Пресс-служба ПАО «ЛУКОЙЛ» сообщает о завершении работ по строительству поисковой скважины Лира-1Х и открытии месторождения газа на морской структуре Лира, расположенной в блоке Трайдент (EX-30) на континентальном шельфе Румынии. Геологоразведочные работы на блоке EX-30 Trident с 2011 года ведутся компанией LUKOIL Overseas Atash B.V. (100-% дочернее предприятие ПАО «ЛУКОЙЛ»), в качестве Оператора, на основе Концессионного Соглашения, заключенного с Правительством Румынии. В настоящее время доля ЛУКОЙЛа в Концессионном Соглашении составляет 72%, PanAtlantic Petroleum Ltd владеет 18% и Societatea Nationale de Gaze Naturale Romgaz S.A. - 10%.

In an expansion of their ongoing global partnership, BP and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) entered into a framework agreement on strategic cooperation covering potential shale gas exploration and production in the Sichuan Basin and future fuel retailing ventures in China and other international partnerships.

Third Quarter 2015 Highlights: - Net debt decreased by $28 million and positive free cash flow from operations was $123 million; - Operating income increased 3% and by 47 basis points sequentially, driven mostly by improvements in North America where revenue increased by 2% and operating margins increased 493 basis points with the modest recovery from spring break up in Canada and continued cost reduction measures; - Best-in-class sequential incrementals of 2% and year-on-year decrementals of 29%; - Completed the previous reduction in force target of 11,000 employees by September 30, 2015, with realized annualized savings of $803 million; and - Repurchased $236 million of long-term debt through open market transactions generating a gain of $35 million.

Revenue for the quarter was $3.8 billion, down 39% compared to the third quarter of 2014. Compared to the prior quarter, revenue declined $182 million or 5%. On a GAAP basis, net loss attributable to Baker Hughes for the third quarter was $159 million or $0.36 per diluted share. Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) for the third quarter of 2015 was $522 million, an increase of $63 million or 14% sequentially, and a decrease of $666 million or 56% compared to the third quarter of 2014.

The plan appears to be working. Oil remains 33 percent lower than when OPEC revealed its strategy on Nov. 27, trading for $48.38 a barrel at 10:13 a.m. in London Wednesday. U.S. crude production has retreated about 500,000 barrels a day from the three-decade peak reached in June to 9.1 million a day in the week to Oct. 9, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.

Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan all have safety cushions of income from oil and gas to help in the hard times of benchmark Brent crude under $50 a barrel.

Russia supplied a record amount of crude oil to China in September, surpassing Saudi Arabia for the second time as the top seller to the Asian giant, customs data showed, boosted by demand from independent refiners.