Occidental Petroleum, continues to tinker with its offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum, late Sunday putting a revised bid in front of the independent producer, offering mostly cash as it looks to wrest its prey from Chevron, Kallanish Energy reports. Oxy is still offering to buy Anadarko for $76 a share, but would now pay 78% in
Oil supermajor Chevron’s Chevron U.S.A. unit said it’s completed the $350 million buy from Petrobras America of all outstanding shares and equity interests of Pasadena Refining System (Prsi) and Prsi Trading, Kallanish Energy reports. Prsi’s 466-acre complex in Pasadena, Texas (near Houston), adds a second refinery to Chevron USA’s Gulf Coast downstream business, which also
A battle between Chevron and Occidental Petroleum, which now includes billionaire investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett, to take control of U.S. independent producer Anadarko Petroleum, is fueling speculation about more deals to come. But oil supermajor BP Plc CEO Bob Dudley Tuesday said his employer will not get involved. BP acquired BHP Billiton’s U.S. shale assets for
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Buzz, a weekly feature where Kallanish Energy editors select the quartet of stories this past week we feel were the most important – have the chance to make the biggest impact on the oil and gas industry — and energy as a whole. This week’s selections include: Venezuela bypasses U.S. sanctions
Royal Dutch Shell Plc this week said it was leaving a U.S. refining lobbying organization in 2020 because the oil supermajor disagrees with the firm’s climate policy, Kallanish Energy learns. The oil giant, in its first review of its association with 19 industry groups, said it found “material misalignment” over climate policy with the American