Blake Wright

ConocoPhillips' successive deals over the past three months in Iraq and Syria are among several recent examples of international oil companies

Five years after the oil majors set emissions reduction targets in the wake of the Paris Agreement, energy security and affordability have taken

Most oil majors ended all activity in Russia following the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, but not TotalEnergies.

More bullish projections for the potential role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to support global decarbonization are not coming to fruition, but Exxon Mobil is unfazed.

Meg O'Neill has been BP's CEO for just over four months, and in that short time has traveled to many of the operator's overseas locations, met with staff and made some big decisions.

As conflicts in the Middle East and Russia disrupt refinery throughputs, margins for downstream players are skyrocketing.

The second quarter of 2026 did not even crack the top 10 for highest average crude oil prices on record — but that didn't stop the Western integrated majors from raking in record cash.

Analysts remain cautious about the scale of the benefits these technologies can deliver and how quickly they can be adopted across the industry.

BP's and Shell's once-big ambitions to become highly diversified, one-stop-shop energy providers have firmly withered on the vine.