Marathon Files for Pipeline IPO
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) has filed with the SEC for the IPO of a new pipeline company, MPLX LP, that would operate as a master limited partnership (MLP) and trade on…
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) has filed with the SEC for the IPO of a new pipeline company, MPLX LP, that would operate as a master limited partnership (MLP) and trade on…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Cut to Equal-weight at Barclays. Alliant Energy Corp. (NYSE: LNT)…
Based on early geological studies, Poland was believed to be sitting on about 187 trillion cubic feet of natural gas locked up in the same kinds of shale formations that have yielded…
Fitch Ratings is out with a statistical review of operational metrics at a number of oil & gas companies. The review notes a handful of emerging trends: Finding, development, and acquisition (FD&A)…
The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following dismal reports from Europe on manufacturing (our coverage here) and unemployment (more coverage here). The ADP report on US unemployment provided more…
The major US stock indexes opened flat this morning but started to move higher following the better-than-expected ISM report on manufacturing (our coverage here). Construction spending in the US was a bit…
Major indexes reacted positively to this morning’s non-farm payrolls report and the drop in the US unemployment rate from 8.5% to 8.3%. Expectations for the unemployment rate had been no better than…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) Started as Outperform at Credit…
Oil refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) posted a quarterly EPS loss of -$0.21 this morning, way below the consensus estimate of EPS loss of -$0.06. Revenues rose to $19.44 billion, beating…
BP plc. (NYSE: BP) has shut-in a 43,000 barrel/day well in a North Sea field following the discovery of a small crack in a connecting pipeline. The leak has stopped and there…
Two pipeline companies have agreed to a 50-50 joint venture to build a new 149-mile offshore gathering system in the Gulf of Mexico. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) and Genesis Energy…
As the price differential between WTIÂ and Brent crude oil continues to narrow, with WTIÂ rising and Brent falling, big oil companies should see a gain in their realized prices for crude. This is…
The refining business has been in the news a lot recently for two things. One, it’s making money again. Two, integrated oil companies are shedding refining assets at a rapid pace. Now’s…
Beginning in the early 1990s, integrated oil companies and some independents began stripping away their midstream assets like interstate pipeline and gathering systems to focus more on the money-making parts of the…
So far this year we’ve noted a couple of major spin-offs in the energy section. Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) spun out its downstream business into Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and…