crude oil News Updates

Business, Fuel, Top 100

Wilks Brothers Swoop In With Competing Offer for Calfrac

Wilks Brothers has made a competing proposal to recapitalize struggling energy company Calfrac Well Services Ltd. and criticized management’s deal as favoring insiders.

August 4, 2020
Government, Business, Fuel

Oil Rises With Signs of Economic Recovery Buoying Demand

Oil rose the most in nearly two weeks as economic data from the U.S. to Europe and Asia signaled a flicker of life in languishing demand.

August 3, 2020
Government, Business, Fuel

Noble Corp. Files Bankruptcy to Erase $3.4 Billion of Debt

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corp. filed for bankruptcy with a plan to cut more than $3.4 billion of debt.

July 31, 2020
Business, Fuel, Logistics

Oil Pares Monthly Gain With Global Supply Onslaught Looming

Oil is set to eke out a monthly gain, yet futures lost steam on July 31 amid threats that the market will soon become oversupplied.

July 31, 2020
Government, Business, Fuel

Oil Clings to Gains After US Supplies Shrink by Most This Year

Oil was propped up by the biggest decline in U.S. crude stockpiles this year, signaling a bright spot in a market weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 29, 2020
Business, Fuel

Oil Falls With US Stockpile Concerns Amplifying Demand Woes

Oil declined as investors turned their focus to domestic supply, with expectations for another build in U.S. stockpiles.

July 28, 2020
Business, Fuel

Oil Trading Profits Soar for Energy Majors Who Made Storage Bets

In March and April, as oil prices plunged to their lowest in a generation, Norwegian energy giant Equinor ASA was busy doing the opposite of what oil companies usually do: pumping as much crude as possible underground into giant caverns on the nation’s North Sea coast.

July 24, 2020
Business, Fuel, Top 100

Schlumberger Shrinks Staff to Lowest Since Pre-Shale Era

Schlumberger Ltd. posted its weakest sales in 14 years and is cutting one-fifth of its workforce while warning that new waves of COVID-19 could derail the nascent recovery in global energy demand.

July 24, 2020
Business, Fuel

Brent Crude Rises to Four-Month High on Recovery Hopes

Oil climbed to the highest level since early March in London on July 21 as hopes for an economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis lifted financial markets.

July 21, 2020
Business, Fuel

Chevron to Buy Noble for $5 Billion in Rare Oil-Bust Deal

Chevron Corp. agreed to buy Noble Energy Inc. for about $5 billion in shares as the oil giant looks to beef up in the Permian Basin amid the wreckage of the worst crude crash.

July 20, 2020