Conocophillips has been divesting assets to focus on shale.
Conocophillips and BP could not immediately be reached for comment.
Conocophillips has been divesting assets to focus
on its U.S. shale base.
Conocophillips last week said it would lay
off 10 percent of its workforce.
Conocophillips is shifting its focus towards lower cost
opportunities elsewhere in the world, particularly in the US.
It already has customers like ADP, Intel and Conocophillips, so the system can clearly service
big corporate clients.
Conocophillips is also preparing new legal
actions to get Caribbean courts to recognize its International Chamber of Commerce arbitration award.
It would follow
similar moves by U.S. rivals Chevron and Conocophillips which earlier this year sold the bulk of their North Sea operations.
Conocophillips expects several decades ahead of lackluster oil prices, with U.S.
oil to average between $40 to $70 per barrel through the 2050s.
Major Chevron transferred its last stake in a
Norwegian offshore license last year, while Conocophillips still operates Ekofisk, the first major oil
discovery off Norway.
Recently, Skyonic Corporation in the US(a joint venture between BP and Conocophillips) has started operating the world's
first commercial CO2 capture and utilisation plant in the world.
As a direct result of the war, ExxonMobil, Conocophillips, and Occidental are the first U.S. oil
companies to receive production contracts in Iraq in over thirty years.
In a sign of confidence
in Clair, BP increased its share in the field in July to 45.1 percent in a swap deal with Conocophillips, from around 29 percent.
The news that Venezuela's PDVSA
has diverted a crude tanker from Curacao after Conocophillips moves to satisfy a $2 billion arbitration
award signals that worst may be yet to come.
BP is today planning the third phase, Clair South, and with its partners- Royal Dutch Shell,
Chevron and Conocophillips- will decide on whether to go ahead
with the project in 2019 or 2020, Flores said.
Conocophillips unveiled a long-term plan on Tuesday to boost oil
and gas production by about 3% per year, restrain annual spending to about $7 billion and return $50 billion to shareholders over the next decade.
Conocophillips has been one of the better-performing energy stocks,
having dropped 8% this year, compared with a key industry index, the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF, which has sunk about 22%.
Conocophillips unveiled a long-term plan on Tuesday to boost oil
and natural gas production by about 3% per year, restrain annual spending to about $7 billion and return $50 billion to shareholders over the next decade.
Conocophillips said on Thursday its U.S. shale operations,
which made money in the first quarter after losing cash for more than a year, were now profitable at oil prices under $45 per barrel, more than $20 below current levels.