Companies

Association news, personnel changes and mergers and acquisitions in September 2023!

Saudi Arabia's oil group Aramco said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire a strategic minority stake in LNG company MidOcean Energy for $500 million, with an option to increase the size of the shareholding.

NextEra Energy said on Tuesday it plans to sell Florida City Gas (FCG) to Chesapeake Utilities for $923 million in cash. FCG’s natural gas infrastructure encompasses approximately 3,800 miles of distribution mains and 80 miles of transmission pipelines.

Spain's Repsol SA has asked an international tribunal to require U.S. gas exporter Venture Global LNG to fulfill its contract for LNG or compensate it, Reuters reported. It is the fourth European customer to pursue an arbitration case against the U.S. developer.

A former deputy chief of Russian natural gas producer Novatek was sentenced on Thursday to seven years and two months in a U.S. prison for a scheme to hide millions of dollars of income in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts and submitting a false filing.

Magellan Midstream Partners' unitholders on Thursday voted in favor of its sale to larger rival ONEOK Inc. for $18.8 billion, creating one of the largest U.S. energy pipeline companies.

Venture Global LNG's chief executive insisted recently that the company's development of U.S. LNG plants has not been slowed by international court battles over its failure to deliver cargoes to contract holders, including BP and Shell.

(P&GJ) — Sempra Infrastructure announced that it has completed the sale of a 42% indirect, non-controlling interest in its Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project to KKR.

(P&GJ) — Diamondback Energy Inc. and Five Point Energy LLC have partnered to form a new joint venture entity, Deep Blue Midland Basin LLC. The joint venture’s water infrastructure network comprises over 800 miles of pipelines for gathering, transport, disposal and reuse.

Chevron Australia no longer expects to reach a deal with unions and will instead pursue an untested legal strategy to stop industrial action at its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG facilities as unions prepare for full-scale strikes.

U.S. energy firm Williams Companies is not interested in three utilities recently bought by Canada's pipeline operator Enbridge as the return rate would be too low, CEO Alan Armstrong said on Wednesday.

Top U.S. energy companies last year paid out more of their earnings to shareholders than they invested in new oil and gas fields for the first time, according to a report released on Tuesday.

EQT Corp., the biggest U.S. natural gas producer, has received the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval to buy THQ Appalachia and associated infrastructure. The proposed deal is valued at $5.2 billion.

Last week, U.S. midstream company Energy Transfer reported lower earnings for the second quarter despite higher transport volumes in most energy product segments versus a year ago.

Sempra has strategically positioned LNG as a burgeoning sector within its portfolio and is making noteworthy strides in expanding its LNG infrastructure, with key projects in the pipeline. Among these ventures is the Costa Azul LNG export plant in Mexico, which is on track to contribute to Sempra's LNG growth strategy.