Netherlands Overview

The National Bank of Kazakhstan on Wednesday reported data on foreign direct investment (FDI) in oil and gas for the January-September 2015 period, revealing a 72.7%…

Shell has passed fellow super-major Chevron to become the second-biggest non-state oil company after merging with BG Group on Monday.

The merger was launched in…

A vehicle to help international investors reach a settlement with state-owned Petrobras was set up in the Netherlands today.

Dubbed the Petrobras Compensation…

Oil trader Vitol confirmed over the weekend that it had purchased a batch of Iranian crude, with company CEO Ian Taylor commenting to Bloomberg that it was “very much…

ExxonMobil 2015 profits slid by 50% from the previous year’s USD 32.5 billion to USD 16.2 billion as its US upstream segments depreciate due to the low price of oil,…

Shell shareholders gave the thumbs up for a USD 50-billion acquisition of the UK’s BG Group at a meeting in The Hague on Wednesday.

In the largest energy merger to…

Shell expects Q4 2015 profits to be up to 50% lower than 2014 with full year write-offs of USD 7 billion, the super-major stated Wednesday in its first preliminary…

Shell’s BG acquisition, valued at $51 billion, could be profitable if the average price of oil is at $50 for two years, the super-major said Wednesday. The investors…

Shell announced USD 5 billion in extra capital spending cuts and operating savings for 2016 in an effort to increase investor support for its upcoming BG Group…

Dutch marine services company SBM Offshore released a statement on Monday defending CEO Bruno Chabas and supervisory board member Setze Hepkema in a corruption scandal…