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ExxonMobil starts production at Hebron Field, offshore Newfoundland

Project achieved over 40 million hours without a lost-time injury during construction Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that the Hebron project started production safely and ahead of schedule and at its peak will produce 150,000 barrels of oil per day, according to a press release. Discovered in 1980, the Hebron field is estimated to contain more than […]

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ExxonMobil announces fifth discovery offshore guyana

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Expectation of 350,000-400,000 b/d of oil production by 2026 Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana, according to a press release. Turbot is ExxonMobil’s latest discovery to date in the country, adding to previous discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep. Following completion of the

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ExxonMobil expands algae biofuel and carbon capture research facility

Innovation

Expansion of ExxonMobil research center expected to be completed by 2019 ExxonMobil announced today that it has broken ground on the expansion of its research facility in Clinton, N.J., a key center of innovation that supports research and development programs, according to a press release. “The expansion of our New Jersey research and engineering center will

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ExxonMobil misleads public on climate change for decades…should we care?

Markham on Energy

Exxon dragged through public mud for decades-old climate denying, current climate change efforts ignored Is pursuing ExxonMobil for climate denying sins dating back to the 1970s a constructive contribution to the climate change/energy transition debate? Should former venal acts overshadow the climate-positive work in which the company is now engaged? And is there a danger

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ExxonMobil challenges “retroactive changes” on Russian sanctions by US Treasury

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ExxonMobil argues Treasury can’t apply sanctions just because it retroactively changes its interpretation of rules ExxonMobil said it has launched a legal challenge to a finding by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that it violated U.S. sanctions against Russia in 2014 when the company followed authoritative and specific guidance from the Obama

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ExxonMobil: NY Attorney General’s “reckless and false allegations” misstate climate policies

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ExxonMobil calls out attorney general for distributing filing to media before submitting it to court New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made “inflammatory, reckless and false allegations” when he misstated how ExxonMobil assesses the potential impacts of climate policy on its business to justify expanding a politically based investigation with “ever-shifting and unravelling investigative theories,”

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Federal judge suggests Columbia School of Journalism an ‘active participant’ in #ExxonKnew campaign

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Judge suggested InsideClimate and Columbia, far from being objective news outlets, may be active participants in #Exxonknew By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth A federal judge this week delivered a major blow to the #ExxonKnew campaign and the two state attorneys general investigating the company, ruling “The merits of each of Exxon’s claims involve important issues that

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Exxon filing puts spotlight on Schneiderman’s PR campaign

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Bottom line: Schneiderman’s attack on Exxon was always about politics By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been investigating ExxonMobil for nearly two years and during that time, he’s received 2.4 million pages of company documents. Yet all he has to show for it is a company-issued alternate email for former

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#ExxonKnew activists continue to push #FakeNews

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This all reveals that the #ExxonKnew effort has devolved into the inevitable fringe environmental campaign By Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth Environmental activists have been struggling to keep the #ExxonKnew campaign alive, as a steady stream of disclosures over the past several months has undermined their efforts to convince more government officials to launch climate-related investigations.

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ExxonMobil doubles Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels

USA

ExxonMobil currently producing 40,000 net oil-equivalent b/d across Permian Basin leasehold Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 billion barrels of oil

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