Steve Pastor, BHP's president for petroleum operations, said this week the company would consider swapping certain onshore oil and
gas assets with competitors» offshore assets as part of its effort to exit U.S. shale operations.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately the pair was dazzled by the value of both
gas transmission / distribution monopoly
assets so sold them off, as was the case
with BankWest.
Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its
asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states
with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and
gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.
NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell
assets and win government support to cope
with competitors using lower - cost natural
gas.
Paramount now deals
with both oil and
gas, and has since spun off
assets into separate companies, such as heavy - oil player Cavalier Energy (in 2011).
Kidney describes that if governments start to provide guarantees and regulatory support for green bonds, these bonds will obtain a lower risk - profile and will then be able to compete
with brown economic
assets such as oil and
gas.
The Board has concluded that Mr. Nickerson is qualified to serve as a Director because, among other things, he has over 30 years of experience in oil and
gas operations,
with a focus on midstream
asset development and management, a critical element of the Company's current strategy.
The greenhouse
gas result was a disappointment for sponsors from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of investors
with $ 100 billion in
assets, which had helped rally institutional investor support for the measure.
In addition to that, reports later in the week said that the company is in talks to partner
with a leading private equity fund to buy Anadarko Petroleum's south Texas oil and
gas assets in a deal that could be worth up to $ 3.5 billion.
Put together
with the North Sea
assets acquired from Shell last year in a $ US3 billion deal, Santos» portfolio would catapult Harbour — managed by private equity giant EIG Global Energy Partners — to a size roughly on a par
with Woodside Petroleum or British - listed Dana
Gas.
However, Asian interest in developing investment ties
with Canada is not limited to China: Companies from Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have invested capital in Canadian oil and
gas assets, and other Asia - based companies are looking at investment opportunities.
On Friday November 21st Glass Lewis hosted a Proxy Talk conference call
with CERES and Walden
Asset Management to discuss the risks from stranded carbon
assets, greenhouse
gas emissions and hydraulic fracturing as well as trends in -LSB-...]
Prior to Herold he was a VP
with private equity firm MMC Energy, where he supported the acquisition of power
assets in California, and an LNG / natural
gas consultant
with Poten & Partners.
The largest ETF is SPDR S&P Oil &
Gas Equipment & Services ETF (XES) by SPDR
with $ 369.32 M in
assets.
Currently, 1 ETF track the S&P Oil &
Gas Equipment & Services Select Industry Index
with more than $ 369.32 M in ETP
assets with an average expense ratio of 0.35 %.
The difference, however, is that while foreign companies mostly sold oil
assets, they mainly purchased natural
gas assets as an adjustment strategy to cope
with the anticipated decline in oil prices and even the global oil industry.
In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War
asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces
with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for
gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.
They combined the oil and
gas business
with Baker Hughes at the bottom of an oil cycle in an
asset - light way.
With the AWE takeover, Mitsui would become operator of a
gas field for the first time, running the Waitsia
gas project, a role Mitsui said would bolster its credentials to bid on other
gas assets in Australia.
He's chairman of the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and is on the board of directors of Noble Energy, an independent
gas - and oil - exploration company
with more than $ 17 billion in
assets.
Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm
with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural
gas, wind and hydropower generation
assets.
More than 90 of the largest oil,
gas, and mining corporations actively participated in the EITI process along
with 84 global investment institutions that collectively managed an additional $ 16 trillion in energy infrastructural
assets.
Oil and
gas companies divest high cost
assets with MLP issues while investors find MLPs attractive for their high yields and tax benefits.
In connection
with preparing for and conducting the May 22, 2009 meeting of stockholders, one stockholder submitted a request that Aspen include a dissolution proposal to be considered at the same time that the stockholders were being asked to consider the sale of Aspen's oil and
gas assets to Venoco, Inc..
The company filled the gap
with $ 7 billion in new
assets that went into service in the past year, including the expansion of the NGTL Pipeline and the Canadian Mainline systems, as well as the Gibraltar, Rayne XPress, Leach XPress and Cameron Access projects in the U.S. natural
gas pipeline business.
I'm wondering whether some or all of the Compton Petroleum
assets might now be disposed of as natural
gas extraction doesn't really seem to fit in
with the MFC's stated corporate mandate.
With infrastructure investments, you put money into a single infrastructure
asset or multiple infrastructure
assets, such as the building and management of toll roads, telecommunications facilities and
gas pipelines.
But
with gas prices falling this year,
asset values in the
gas patch followed suit, and the company's reliance on bank debt has put it in difficulty again.
At $ 1 trillion U.S. in
assets, Norway's sovereign wealth fund made headlines in November 2017
with the news it would consider selling its oil and
gas stocks over time.
As it prepares to make way for the largest capital investment programme in its history, Enbridge chief executive Al Monaco said the company has identified C$ 10bn ($ 7.9 bn) of non-core
assets it will consider selling,
with at least C$ 3bn worth to be sold or monetised in 2018 — including onshore renewables and unregulated
gas assets.
The greenhouse
gas result was a disappointment for sponsors from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of investors
with $ 100 billion in
assets, which had helped rally institutional investor support for the measure.
Investors in oil and
gas companies have been in the dark about their exposure to climate risk, but they will now be able to confront companies
with precise information and ask hard questions about how they intend to deal
with potentially stranded
assets.»
With oil,
gas, and coal companies still among the world's most richly valued
assets, that may seem hard to imagine.
The proposal calls for upgrading existing pipeline facilities and storage
assets,
with a goal of supplying electric generation markets in the
gas - constrained region.
Unfortunately, that's a distinction that some other supporters of the carbon
asset bubble meme don't seem to make, particularly
with regard to oil and natural
gas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. / / / NEWS ADVISORY / / / Four leading organizations in sustainable investing — As You Sow, Boston Common
Asset Management, Green Century Capital Management, and the Investor Environmental Health Network — will hold a phone - based news conference at 1:30 p.m. EST on November 7, 2013 to issue a report scoring 24 top oil &
gas companies on their disclosure (or lack thereof) to investors of the key risks associated
with hydraulic fracturing operations.
It is worth noting that much of that $ 50 billion was spent acquiring wind and solar generation and its associated spending on transmission, plus
gas plants (to back them because the power is intermittent), and distribution
assets to hook them into the grid or embed them
with the local distribution companies.
This starts
with a view that U.S. oil and natural
gas abundance — thanks to plentiful shale reserves and hydraulic fracturing — is a national
asset to be supported and expanded, its benefits distributed to all parts of the country via 21st century infrastructure.
American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has partnered
with climate activism group 350.org Australia to launch a campaign to freeze fossil fuels investments, by encouraging Australians to lobby their local governing bodies to ensure that none of its
assets are in coal, oil and
gas.
In a joint statement issued ahead of the G20 conference in China this weekend, insurers
with more than USD$ 1.2 trillion in
assets under management warn that support for the production of coal, oil, and
gas is at odds
with the nations» commitment to tackle climate change agreed in Paris last December.
Fund managers and investors attending the meeting want oil and
gas majors to assess how compatible their
assets are
with global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of warming.
The Bank of England has also recognised that a collapse in the value of oil,
gas and coal
assets as nations tackle global warming is a potential systemic risk to the economy,
with London being particularly at risk owing to its huge listings of coal.
«It's not like power supply of the past where you had a bunch of nuclear power plants, a couple coal plants and some
gas - fired generation
with the odd renewable
asset thrown in, and then a jumbled mix of grey and green power being sold at the consumer end,» says Uli Suedhoff, a director at GE Renewable Energy in Europe.
A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm
with major
assets in Russian oil and
gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and
gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.
In 1998, at the age of 28, he took a job
with an
asset management company in New York and set up a greenhouse
gas trading desk for it.
Forrest and Hoskins are also tied closely to Spectrum Partners and Marcuard - Spectrum, Moscow - based firms
with significant
assets in Russian oil and
gas.
While some
gas and oil giants are pulling back from shale investments in order to reduce «stranded
asset» exposure, it's worth noting that the shale
gas giant ExxonMobil has been doubling down on shale
gas, possibly
with an eye toward supplying the
gas - to - plastics market rather than the energy market.
In the fossil fuel industry, for example, the term increasingly used to signify the long - term risk associated
with oil and
gas that may become much more expensive to exploit is «stranded
assets.»
Most recently, a report from The Carbon Tracker
with a forward by Lord Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change (London School of Economics), argued that serious risks are accumulating for investors in high carbon
assets, such as coal mining companies and the oil and
gas industry.
Over in Houston, an associate in the oil and
gas business revealed that «we do a large number of
asset deals and I assist
with the drafting and negotiating of the deal documents.»