Hunting: Oil and gas services firm’s profit more than doubles August 29, 2024 Oil and gas equipment provider Hunting has reported a more than doubling in profit for the first half of 2024 as its order book hit a record level.
Ithaca Energy: Profit tumbles at North Sea oil and gas firm as windfall tax bites August 22, 2024 North sea oil and gas firm Ithaca Energy saw its revenue and profit tumble after being hit by impairment charges, lower production and a dip in the oil and gas prices. The FTSE 250 constituent, which in the Spring announced plans to buy all of Italian competitor Eni’s North Sea assets for £754m, lowered its [...]
Riverstone Energy share buyback programme marches on after £158m spending spree August 21, 2024 Riverstone Energy’s underlying assets per share ticked up seven per cent over the last six months, as the company continued an aggressive share repurchase programme. Riverstone’s monster share buyback programme has helped the energy-focused investment trust outperform its peer group over the past one and three years. The trust’s share price has returned 42.2 per [...]
Revenue slides at Wood Group after Sidara snub but guidance kept August 20, 2024 Engineer Wood Group maintained its full year guidance despite sliding into the red after a dip revenue in its first set of results since Emerati competitor Sidara pulled out of a deal for the firm at the eleventh hour. The Aberdonian firm, which generates much of its revenue providing engineering services to the oil and [...]
Gran Tierra Energy pounces on i3 Energy in £175m deal August 20, 2024 Oil producer Gran Tierra Energy has announced a £175m deal to acquire its London-listed peer i3 Energy. Under the terms of the deal, which was announced in the early hours of this morning, Gran Tierra said it would offer one new Gran Tierra share for every 207 i3 Energy shares held as well as 10.43p [...]
Bowleven to delist from London Stock Exchange’s AIM amid stalled oil project August 9, 2024 Listed oil and gas company Bowleven is set to de-list from the London Stock Exchange to be re-registered as a private limited company
Harbour Energy returns to profit despite falling revenue and cash flow August 8, 2024 Harbour Energy has returned to the black on Thursday despite the largest UK-based North Sea oil and gas firm suffering a dip in revenue and cratered free cash flow. The producer had been a victim of the energy profit levy imposed off the back of energy price spikes in 2022, with the 75 per cent [...]
BP: Oil giant lifts dividend as it beats expectations in second quarter July 30, 2024 Oil giant BP reported a stronger-than-expected net profit for the second quarter and raised its divided despite earlier warnings of lower refining margins.
BP shares slide four per cent after warning of £1.6bn impairment July 9, 2024 BP also said its second-quarter results, expected on July 30, will include post-tax adverse adjustments around what it called "onerous contract provisions. These are expected to be between $1bn and $2bn.
Wood bags six-year contract on Shell’s Prelude facility July 9, 2024 Wood, headquarted in Aberdeen, said it would provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for the LNG facility.