Energy

Bloomberg India is considering a floor price for natural gas produced from local fields to shield explorers like state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) as tariff slumps, people with knowledge of the matter said. Shares of explorers gained. The proposal being considered by the oil ministry pegs the price to the popular benchmark Japan-Korea Marker that is used for …

Bloomberg Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to restore the national oil company to its former glory. Instead, Petroleos Mexicanos is drowning in debt, its oil output is declining, and now it appears to be losing fuel market share in its own backyard. In the past 21 months of the Lopez Obrador administration, Pemex has lost roughly 13% of …

Bloomberg Devon Energy Corp agreed to acquire WPX Energy Inc in a $2.56 billion all-stock deal, creating one of the largest independent US shale producers and answering investor calls for consolidation at a time of crisis for the sector. Devon shareholders will own about 57 percent of the combined company, Devon and WPX said on Monday in a statement. The …

Bloomberg Just a week after revealing its plan to turn itself into a clean-energy giant, BP Plc watched its share price drop to a 25-year low. Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney and his new management team gave more than 10 hours of presentations over three days last week, in a bid to show the world that the oil and gas …

Bloomberg Tourmaline Oil Corp is betting investors have an appetite for more Canadian energy stocks, offering up the biggest initial share sale to come out of Alberta’s oil patch in three years. The Calgary-based natural gas driller is creating a new royalty and energy infrastructure company through an initial public offering of Topaz Energy Corp, with the new entity and …

Bloomberg China aims to be carbon neutral by 2060, tightening its target to cut greenhouse-gases, and signaled higher spending on green technologies in the next five years, major pledge in the fight against climate change by the planet’s worst polluter. President Xi Jinping, speaking during a virtual United Nations General Assembly, also reiterated his goal for emissions to peak before …

Bloomberg CleanCapital, a New York-based renewables investor that manages more than $500 million in assets, is looking to raise up to $500 million in corporate equity to invest in solar and battery-storage projects. The company is talking to pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign-wealth funds and infrastructure funds focussed on North America that are seeking long-term investments, said CEO Thomas Byrne. …

Bloomberg Australia will invest $154 million in new diesel storage facilities and introduce other measures aimed at shoring up the nation’s struggling refining industry and bolstering domestic fuel security. A$200 million will be used to create an additional 780 megalitres (4.9 million barrels) of onshore diesel storage space, Angus Taylor, the country’s minister for energy and emissions reduction, said in …

Bloomberg Nikola Corp’s latest stock plunge sent shares of Norwegian green energy company Nel ASA to a nearly 17% drop. The Oslo-based company is critically tied to Nikola, which is set to be a major buyer of Nel’s technology to create hydrogen. Earlier this year, Nikola made a more than $30 million order for Nel’s electrolysers that would create the …

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp’s UK North Sea assets have attracted suitors from state-owned companies to private equity-backed firms as the US oil giant seeks to exit the aging region altogether, according to people with knowledge of the matter. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co and the UK’s EnQuest Plc are among bidders, the people said, asking …