(Corrects dateline to Oct 7, not Oct 6. No change to text) By America Hernandez and Stephanie Kelly PARIS/LONDON -The five biggest global oil majors are moving to cut costs, jobs and share buybacks as falling oil prices threaten to make shareholder payouts unsustainable without increasing debt, analysts said. Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies have pledged high returns for the past decade to avert an investor exodus as fossil fuels lost their appeal. But maintaining those generous payou ...

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BP will seek a partner to evaluate its discovery at Brazil's Bumerangue block, and it could potentially reach a deal before it makes a decision on investing in the project, the oil major's Brazil chie... ...

BP is seeking to revive its fortunes after strategic missteps caused its shares to lag behind rivals. - arnd wiegmann/Reuters BP’s new chairman backed the company’s strategic direction but said the business must act with urgency, and signalled further asset sales as it attempts to shore up its balance sheet while boosting valuations for shareholders. In a message to staff on Wednesday, Albert Manifold said the oil major needs to carefully look at its portfolio and suggested further assets would be sold t ...

BP’s new Chair, Albert Manifold, has told employees the company must accelerate its pivot back to oil and gas while simplifying a portfolio he described as “overly complex.” In an internal memo seen by Reuters, Manifold said some of BP’s assets “may be more valuable to others” and emphasized the need to boost profitability. His comments mark a sharp signal that the board intends to quicken the retreat from BP’s earlier renewables-heavy push, a strategy that has drawn investor criticism. Manifold official ...

New BP Chair Albert Manifold told BP employees on Tuesday that the group needed to move faster executing its strategy of shifting focus from renewables to oil and gas and consider more asset sales, an... ...

Encouraged by the U-turn in the U.S. energy policies under President Trump, investors are back to backing oil and gas majors as the self-righteous ESG hype is waning, especially in corporate America. For all the environmental, social, and governance craze of the past few years in markets, ESG has done value investors one big favor—it has helped sink the valuations of oil and gas companies to bargain levels, alongside the oil price crash of 2020, of course. These super-low valuations of Big Oil and other ...

BP (NYSE:BP) is moving forward with plans to develop an offshore drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5 billion. It is expected to take five years for the Tiber-Guadalupe oil and gas project to come online. In 2030, the floating platform will have the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of oil per day, en route to BP increasing its US upstream output to more than 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Reuters said the announcement underscores the British energy major’s commitment to the US r ...

中化新网讯 近日，英国石油公司(BP)表示，预计全球石油需求将持续增长至2030年。相比一年前预测 的需求峰值将在2025年出现，这次的预测延后了5年。分析称，此次预测修正主要源于能源效率提升步 伐的放缓。 按照目前的轨迹情景，预计到2030年，石油需求将达1.034亿桶/日，到2050年将降至8300万桶/日。去年 的报告预测，石油需求将在2025年达到峰值，约为1.02亿桶/日。如果能源效率改善仍然缓慢，预计到 2035年，石油需求将升至约1.06亿桶/日。在升温低于2℃的情景下，石油需求将在2025年达到峰值，约 为1.022亿桶/日，到2050年将降至3380万桶/日。 在其最新的年度研究报告《能源展望》中，BP基于两种情景模拟了到2050年的能源趋势。一种是"一切 照旧"情景，该情景考虑了各国现有的政策和承诺。另一种是"低于2℃"情景，即根据《巴黎协定》将全 球气温升幅限制在2℃以下，到2050年，二氧化碳排放量在2023年的水平上减少约90%。 ...

bp (NYSE: BP) has reached a final investment decision on the Tiber-Guadalupe project, a new 100%-owned deepwater oil hub in the US Gulf of America. The $5 billion development will feature a floating production platform with capacity for 80,000 barrels of oil per day, drawing from six wells in the Tiber field and two tiebacks from Guadalupe. Production is targeted to begin in 2030. The project underscores the growing importance of the Gulf of America within bp’s upstream portfolio. Tiber-Guadalupe will be ...