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Mining and Energy Companies Investment Delay by Global Financial Crisis
The deepening of the global financial crisis and the sharp drop in energy prices have forced companies to scale back spending and delay projects, with expensive ventures in the Canadian oil sands hardest hit.
Conocophillips Agreed To Pay $9.6 Billion For A Half Stake In Natural Gas Project
ConocoPhillips is an experienced developer and operator of LNG projects around the world and has strong ties to major LNG consumers in Asia.
ConocoPhillips, which boasts a market capitalisation of 125 billion US dollars, will make a 1.5-billion-dollar payment into the new joint venture at the end of 2010 and further payments as the project comes [...]
BHP Will Increasingly Seek Oil and Gas Acquisitions
BHP Billiton Ltd., Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer, said it will increasingly consider acquisitions in petroleum to add to growth opportunities.
Acquisitions may help petroleum expand to as much as 30 percent of the company in terms of value, after the planned purchase of Rio Tinto Group, up from about 20 percent now, J. Michael [...]
British giant B Group $12.9 billion bid for Origin Energy
BRITISH giant BG Group has launched the biggest-ever foreign takeover in the Australian energy sector with a $12.9 billion bid for Origin Energy.
The unsolicited bid, which will require the approval of the Foreign Investment Review Board, comes as companies from resource-hungry countries such as China pursue takeovers across the Australian mining and energy sector.
Origin Energy [...]
UK Gas Producer, BG Group Plc. Propose Bid Origin Energy Ltd. $12 bln
UK gas producer BG Group Plc has made a $12 billion bid approach to Origin Energy Ltd, seeking to bolster its position in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific gas market by securing the Australian utility’s gas reserves.
The companies said BG , valued at around $85 billion, had approached Origin with a proposal of A$14.70 per share in [...]
Mitsubishi Forecasts 25% Net Gain as Oil, Coal Surge (Update3)
Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s largest trading company, said profit may rise 25 percent this year as soaring oil and coal prices bolster revenue from its energy and commodities businesses.
Net income will probably climb to a record of 580 billion yen ($5.6 billion yen) in the year that started April 1, from 463 billion yen in the [...]
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. Q2 output up, new projects eyed
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (ASX: WPL.ax) , Australia’s largest independent oil and gas producer, reported a 9 percent rise in second-quarter output on Thursday, with at least three new projects due to come on-line in the next six months.
But output of 17 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) was down 6 percent on the previous quarter, [...]
LNG projects need close government scrutiny
Utilisation of Papua New Guinea’s massive gas resources has entered a critical phase following the cancellation early this year of the project to pipe natural gas to Australia.
As indicated in previous columns much attention needs to be given by the government to rational and early development of an liquefied natural gas project as the only [...]
With nuclear off and coal thin, Japan hunts for LNG
A few Japanese power companies are tentatively seeking spot cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as they brace for a hot summer with low coal stocks and reduced nuclear power rates, market sources said on Friday.
But even coupled with opportunistic buying from India and China, the fresh demand seems unlikely to lift Asian spot LNG [...]
