Unused oil rigs sink Awilco Drilling to losses of £7.5million
A pair of oil rigs lying idle in Invergordon sank Awilco Drilling to losses of £7.5million in the first quarter of 2020.
A pair of oil rigs lying idle in Invergordon sank Awilco Drilling to losses of £7.5million in the first quarter of 2020.
US energy firm Apache took a £3.6billion pre-tax loss in the first quarter of the year as the oil price crash hit the value of its assets.
DNO, the Oslo-listed exploration firm which took over Aberdeen's Faroe Petroleum, has announced it is reducing staff “in all locations” in response to Covid-19 outbreak and oil price crash.
Norway’s Equinor saw its profits slide by 98% - a drop of £3.8billion – year-on-year as the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price crash took effect.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. took a $1.4 billion writedown related to an investment in a pipeline affiliate, cut capital spending and withdrew its guidance for the year after a historic collapse in oil prices.
Total barely managed to stay in profit for the start of 2020 as oil prices took a nosedive due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Rig operator Transocean has seen its pre-tax losses more than double year-on-year as it tackles the effects of Covid-19 and the oil price crash.
Rig operator Valaris fell to a £2.5billion pre-tax loss for the first quarter of 2020 due to write-downs on its oil and gas assets.