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Cairn Energy fell 7 per cent , BG lost 5 per cent and BP 4.6 per cent as the latest poll of analysts predicted a sharper contraction in demand for oil this year than expected two months ago as the world economy slips into recession.
A Reuters poll of 10 banks predicts an average decline in demand of 430,000 barrels per day this year to 85.43 million barrels, compared to a fall of only 20,000 expected in November, which would mirror the 2008 decline.
Shell fell 3.4 per cent as HSBC analysts predicted it was in for a cash squeeze. It said that its operating cashflow would fall by about 16 per cent from last year of $7 billion while its capital expenditure would rise by $3 billion, giving it negative cash flow this year and next, although it said that its strong balance sheet should be able to take the strain and it maintained an “overweight” advice on the shares.
The fear is that the oil price will never recover to the heights it reached last summer as consumers switch to smaller more fuel efficient cars and the proportion of renewable energy consumption increases.
The possible need for cash for oil companies was also highlighted by Tullow Oil, which announced a £400 million share placing to help it to secure a refinancing of its debt to bring its Jubilee oil field off Ghana into production.
Tullow gained 5 per cent as analysts said that a refinancing deal now looked almost certain to be agreed.
Banks continued to dive on fears of nationalisation with Barclays taking the strain today, off 20 per cent at 58.5p, amid reports that investors were demanding an early trading statement. Lloyds was down 12.5% and RBS, which bore the brunt of selling on Monday after its profit warning was actually up 7 per cent at 11p.
ICAP, the interdealer broker, lost 6 per cent after going ex-dividend.
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Zik Gbemre: ON HOW TO REVAMP NIGERIA’S UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OIL & GAS SECTOR With recent reports that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) had approved a whopping $1.5 billion to rehabilitate the epileptic Port Harcourt refinery, I consider it a national tragedy and a shame of a nation that Nigeria, despite its over fifty decades of oil and gas exploration and production activities, has been exporting its hugely produced crude oil and natural gas at commercial quantity, and then import ‘refined petroleum products’ at higher costs to satisfy domestic demands. The said move, according to the government, is to ensure that the obsolete Port-Harcourt refinery, which last benefitted from a Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM) work in 2000, comes back to life, while also supposedly contributing to the development of Nigeria’s oil sector. We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes https://ndpc-zik.org/publications/on-who-to-revamp-nigeria-upstream-and-downstream-oil-and-gas-sector COMPLETE COMMENTS
Bonus Group: https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/310420/shell-looking-options-new-aberdeen-headquarters/
Bogus Group: "Under the Hammer", again!https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tunisia-oil/tunisia-faces-exodus-of-western-oil-giants-idUSKBN2BI1XF
Bogus Group: Serica finally kicks-off development on Columbus, years after BG 'kicked them in the teeth'. https://www.upstreamonline.com/field-development/serica-energy-kicks-off-development-drilling-at-north-sea-field/2-1-982427
Bonus Group: https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/3/48093/Shell-to-develop-Phase-9B-of-WDDM-within-2-months
Bonus Group: I have mentioned before how the contaminated produced water from Shell's Western Delta Deep Marine gas fields, acquired during the takeover of BG Group, used to be tankered and dumped in the desert.Khaled Gad, Shell's Onshore and Offshore Asset Manager in Egypt, should be able to answer the question as to what now happens to the produced water from Shell's assets in Egypt.
Bonus Group: Selling off parts of the BG millstone. See: https://www.upstreamonline.com/lng/shell-completes-2-5bn-australian-lng-asset-sale/2-1-980042
Bonus Group: Further to Bogus Group's post, very little at BG Group was proven. The majority of their work was of low integrity and dissolved at the slightest scrutiny. This was to be expected with a 'do as I say, not do as I do' Line Management.
Bogus Group: https://trinidadexpress.com/business/local/shell-takes-biggest-hit/article_ca33aea4-73d5-11eb-8a6e-ff41b564d669.html It's surely been proven that BG proven reserves were not actually proven and that Shell did inherit a 'pig in the poke'. The statement “Our preference is to deal with these arrangements, not in a clandestine way but there is a deeper confidentiality to it. We have these arrangements all over the world. We need to ensure that we maintain a degree of confidentiality but what I will confirm is that hundreds of millions of US dollars converts to billions of TT dollars and we have confirmed that Trinidad will benefit to billions,”beggars belief.
Bonus Group: It is not clear why the once upon a time VP Developments, Brazil is now VP Subsurface Excellence, given that the Brazil Asset under her stewardship spent at least five years down a giant rabbit hole using a corrupt workflow that resulted in a significant overbooking of reserves.
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