Chevron Corp., the US major and operator of two world-class LNG export plants in Western Australia, has agreed to acquire Houston-based Noble Energy and its assets in US shale basins and the East Mediterranean, including the Leviathan and Tamar gas fields offshore Israel.
Keane Group Inc. and C&J Energy Services, two Houston-based oil and gas services companies, have agreed to combine their completions and production services operations such as hydraulic fracturing in shale basins and workover rigs in an all-stock merger valued at about $1.8 billion.
Baker Hughes-GE, the energy services company and maker of turbomachinery for LNG production plants, posted solid first-quarter earnings and said the natural gas market continued to show strong LNG demand support.
Sempra Energy, the owner of LNG facilities in Louisiana and Mexico, said the Public Utility Commission of Texas had approved an order authorizing the joint change-in-control application filed by Oncor Electric Delivery Co to be taken over by Sempra.
CB&I, the US energy and LNG engineering company in the process of merging with McDermott International, posted a fourth-quarter loss and gave an update on the US Gulf Coast liquefaction and export plants it is currently working on, Freeport LNG in Texas and Cameron LNG in Louisiana.