Exxon is spending big to connect customers to its 900-mile-wide network of underground carbon transfer pipelines, one executive told the FT.
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The oil price shock caused by the Iran war has turbocharged BP shares, pushing them up roughly 33% so far this year.
Iranian strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan plant eliminated three to five years of LNG exports worth some $20 billion in yearly revenue.
Some traders see a possible parallel to the spike and subsequent crash in oil prices in 2008 if the war drags on and threatens supplies.
Shell and BP shares rose roughly 3% on Thursday, while US majors Exxon Mobil and Chevron were more muted, up 1.1% and 0.6% respectively.
Rather than jockeying for an advantage in their weakened state, the two longtime rivals are set to work together more and more.
Last week the Big Oil companies weighed in with their earnings reports, and it was mostly a pretty sorry assembly.
Fossil fuel producers and OPEC have rained on the IEA’s parade, offering wildly different projections for future energy demand.
ExxonMobil forecast that oil demand will remain above 100 million barrels per day in 2050, roughly the same as current levels.