CNOOC Ltd, the listed unit of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is embarking on a plan that envisages increased co-operation with foreign oil companies at home and overseas as it works to meet a targeted hydrocarbon production growth rate of between 6% and 10% per annum from now until 2015.
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell plans further cost cutting and lay-offs in an effort to “sharpen” its performance and increase profits.
OIL prices were robust this week, ending on a positive note on Wednesday due to a weak US dollar and after Opec decided to keep output targets steady.
Gas superpower Qatar is not alarmed over threats to its liquefied natural gas exports from a downturn in global demand and is keeping open the option of further developing its massive North Field reserves once a self-declared ban ends in 2014, Qatari Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah told Upstream.
Japan’s Nippon Steel is poised to land all four turnkey contracts valued at more than $200 million in total at Total’s South Mahakam gas and liquids development off Indonesia.
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Lufkin Industries raised its 2008 earnings target by between $5.10 and $5.30 per share, up from its prior range of $5 to $5.20 per share.
Analysts, on average, expect net income of $5.17 per share, according to Thomson Financial.
The company reported combined backlog at its oil field services and power transmission units of $234.7 million at the end of the first quarter reported the Associated Press.
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