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'We see the Kyoto protocol as unworkable, unfair, ineffective and potentially damaging to other vital economic and national interests. The debate over Kyoto has distracted policymakers for too long.' Lee [...]

The energy industry is increasingly unsure about the best investments for a quick and high return. Refining is clearly ruled out for the majors, which are selling plants to independent [...]

Development of Alaska's abundant natural gas reserves is gathering steam. ExxonMobil, Alaska's largest gas owner, is 'seriously considering' helping construct a $10bn pipeline from Prudhoe Bay's untapped 35 trillion [ft.sup.3] [...]

ExxonMobil plans to invest $ l0bn in Nigeria over the next five years in a bid to raise production capacity to 1mn b/d of operated crude from output of 520,000 [...]

ExxonMobil is on the brink of pulling out of its two remaining exploration projects in the Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea. Exploration drilling at the Zafar-Mashal and Nakhichevan projects [...]

ExxonMobil will no longer pursue plans to build a $600mn, 1bn [ft.sup.3]/d (28mn [m.sup.3]/d) liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Mobile, Alabama. The company is moving along with two [...]

ExxonMobil plans to build 32 liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers to supply its proposed LNG receiving terminal in Wales in the western UK and on the US Gulf coast. ExxonMobil [...]

ExxonMobil plans to double its upstream presence in Russia and other non-OECD regions by the end of the decade. Oil and gas production in Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East [...]

The future of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports is beginning to take shape, with ExxonMobil the latest company to announce plans for an import terminal. The major says it [...]

ExxonMobil is evaluating discoveries in southern Chad. If there is enough oil, it hopes to build a feeder pipeline to the main Chad-Cameroon pipeline. ExxonMobil operates the 225,000 b/d line, [...]

ExxonMobil plans to control 25pc of the world's supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2020, said vice-president and head of global exploration Harry Longwell last week. ExxonMobil LNG supply [...]

ExxonMobil's 225,000 b/d Chad-Cameroon pipeline, Africa's biggest energy infrastructure project, may be extended following several oil discoveries in Chad. The $3.5bn project is set to start flowing in July, with [...]

Faced with diminishing gas resources in North America, the biggest energy producers are spending an increasing share of their capital budget outside the continent. Majors ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips need [...]

Shell executives will meet Saudi officials, led by minister Ali Naimi, around 10 December to seek further clarification on the $5bn Shaybah-Kidan natural gas project. Shell is leading a consortium [...]

ExxonMobil and its partners decided late last month that it is feasible to deliver natural gas from Russia's Sakhalin Island to Japan by pipeline. But it is not clear whether [...]

Senior Saudi officials will meet the heads of ExxonMobil and Shell this month in a last-ditch attempt to save the kingdom's $25bn gas initiative. ExxonMobil chief Lee Raymond and Shell [...]

The fastest way for foreign investors to enter China's refining sector is still through petrochemical projects and expansion of existing refineries. ExxonMobil should have large stakes in two existing southern [...]

Participants in the ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin l and Shell-led Sakhalin II consortiums are discussing building joint oil infrastructure on Russia's Sakhalin island. The talks centre on joint construction of subsea pipes [...]

Norway's energy ministry has received applications from 14 oil companies for acreage offered on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The companies that have submitted applications include Agip, Amerada Hess, BP, ExxonMobil, [...]

Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is going ahead with the first field expansion projects in five years, even as it keeps existing capacity shut in. Onshore [...]