Mitchell Ferman

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  • Of the countries surveyed, only China saw major gains, with single-vehicle owning EV drivers rising “from 72% to an impressive 89%,” Shell said.Tech

    Electric cars lose appeal with new drivers, Shell survey finds

    By Mitchell Ferman and Bloomberg
  • BP CEO Murray Auchincloss holds up his hands in disbeliefFinance

    BP CEO sees pay cut 30% after profit miss, Elliott intervention

    By Mitchell Ferman and Bloomberg
  • Liam Mallon, president of Upstream Oil & Gas for Exxon Mobil Corp., speaks during the 2024 CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, US, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. More than 7,000 people are headed to Houston to attend the conference with a key question in mind: How to meet increasing demand for power amid the transition to clean energy. Photographer: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    ‘Drill, baby, drill’ is unlikely under Trump, Exxon says

    By Mitchell Ferman and Bloomberg
  • FTC Chair Lina KhanLeadership

    The FTC is looking for a ‘smoking gun’ as it investigates whether U.S. oil giants colluded with OPEC

    By Mitchell Ferman, Leah Nylen, and others
  • John Hess and Mike WirthFinance

    Hess CEO drags $53 billion Chevron deal over the line amid grapple with Exxon

    By Mitchell Ferman, Kevin Crowley, and others
  • Shale oilFinance

    ‘It’s kind of like Pac-Man right now: consolidate or get eaten’: Big oil’s $250 billion year of shale mergers rewrites the playbook

    By Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, and others
  • Autry Stephens, chief executive officer of Endeavor Energy Resources LP, stands for a photograph at the company’s Big Dog Drilling Rig 22 in the Permian basin outside of Midland, Texas, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Of all the booming U.S. oil regions set soaring by a drilling renaissance in shale rock, the Permian and Bakken basins are among the most vulnerable to oil prices that settled at $57.81 a barrel Dec. 12. With enough crude by some counts to exceed the reserves of Saudi Arabia, theyre also the most critical to the future of the U.S. shale boom. Photographer: Brittany Sowacke/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Big Shale means ‘consolidate or get eaten,’ Wall Street is all in, and one of the ‘last original wildcatters’ will become America’s richest oilman

    By Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, and others
  • Autry StephensSuccess

    Meet oil’s new king: 85-year-old Autry Stephens, raised by peanut-and-melon farmers and now worth $25.9 billion

    By Devon Pendleton, Mitchell Ferman, and others
  • Diamondback EnergyFinance

    Diamondback Energy’s $26 billion purchase of fellow Permian driller Endeavor shoots its stock up more than 10%

    By Mitchell Ferman, Joe Ryan, and others