Earnings

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Wednesday it would continue to curtail natural gas output until demand rebounds, forecasting another 400 MMcf/d of cuts in the second quarter.  The company first announced the cuts in February and said they would mostly come by not turning wells in progress to sales. Chesapeake curbed 200 MMcf/d of output during…

The imminent startup of Canada’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline, with LNG Canada set to ramp late this year, should provide “significant tidewater access” to boost near-term activity, according to the CEO of Calgary-based Precision Drilling Corp.  CEO Kevin Neveu laid out the near-term forecast for the international contract drilling expert during the recent quarterly conference…

Appalachian Basin pure play Antero Resources Corp. expects the currently oversupplied natural gas market to balance over the next year as producers tap the brakes and export demand picks up. During a call to discuss first quarter earnings, CEO Paul Rady and his management team highlighted the natural gas liquids-rich production mix and exposure to…

Mexico’s state oil and gas giant Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, reported a 7.5% year/year drop in natural gas production in the first quarter as the country’s aging offshore oil fields showed weaker output. Natural gas production, including from partners, was 3.836 Bcf/d in the first quarter, down 312 MMcf/d compared to the comparable period in…

The exploration and production sector may be feeling the heat from slumping natural gas prices, but they had little impact on Enterprise Products Partners LP’s Permian Basin operations during the first quarter, executives said Tuesday. Driven by its operations in West Texas, natural gas transportation volumes during 1Q2024 improved from a year ago to 18.6…

TotalEnergies SE said Friday that its LNG sales decreased in the first quarter mainly due to lower demand in Europe and an unplanned outage at the Freeport export terminal on the upper Texas coast.  The company has 2.2 million tons (Mt) of annual tolling capacity at Freeport’s Train 3, which was offline most of the…

Chevron Corp.’s domestic operations, particularly in the Permian Basin, performed “stronger than we had anticipated” in the first quarter, with improved cycle times and natural gas and oil output, CEO Mike Wirth said Friday. During a conference call to discuss quarterly performance, Wirth explained to analysts how the Permian portfolio improved as the wellhead-to-sales times…

Equinor ASA expects competition for LNG with Asia and weather to be the largest drivers of European natural gas prices as markets continue to shift, creating a floor for global benchmarks. After another mild winter helped Europe exit its second heating season without major Russian pipeline gas supplies and sizable storage inventories, CFO Torgrim Reitan…

ExxonMobil will add more natural gas – including LNG – into the portfolio, both in the United States and overseas, as long as they are “advantaged investment opportunities,” according to CEO Darren Woods. During the quarterly conference call on Friday, Woods was asked whether more liquefied natural gas assets would be added to the portfolio…