President Trump Meets With Oil and Gas Executives in Washington, DC

President Trump Meets With Oil and Gas Executives in Washington, DC

CEO of ExxonMobil Darern Woods speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, January 9, 2026. Photo by Bonnie Cash/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

President Trump Meets With Oil and Gas Executives in Washington, DC

President Trump Meets With Oil and Gas Executives in Washington, DC

CEO of ExxonMobil Darern Woods speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, January 9, 2026. Photo by Bonnie Cash/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-EXXONMOBIL CEO-MEETING (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-EXXONMOBIL CEO-MEETING (CN)

(240325) -- BEIJING, March 25, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods in Beijing, capital of China, March 25, 2024. (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

U.S.-HOUSTON-CERAWEEK-ENERGY FORUM

U.S.-HOUSTON-CERAWEEK-ENERGY FORUM

(240318) -- HOUSTON, March 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Daniel Yergin (L), vice chair of CERAWeek's organizer S&P Global, and Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil, attend a leadership dialogue at the CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, the United States, on March 18, 2024. CERAWeek, known as a superbowl forum in the global energy industry, kicked off Monday in Houston of the U.S. state of Texas, with topics covering the entire energy spectrum but themed on multidimensional energy transition in four fields: markets, climate, technology and geopolitics. (Photo by Chen Chen/Xinhua)

China's CNPC becomes lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield

STORY: China's CNPC becomes lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 1, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the handover ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): BASSIM MOHAMMED KHUDAIR, Iraqi deputy oil minister for extraction affairs 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): CHEN MINGZHUO, General manager of the Project 4. various of the West Qurna 1 oilfield in Iraq STORYLINE: China's leading oil and gas producer, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), officially took over from U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil as the lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield on Monday. Iraqi officials, Chinese diplomats, and representatives of oil companies attended the handover ceremony. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): BASSIM MOHAMMED KHUDAIR, Iraqi deputy oil minister for extraction affairs "We congratulate CNPC for being the main contractor in this contract, and we have full confidence in CNPC, with its manpower, strategy, and vision, that this p

IRAQ-BASRA-WEST QURNA 1 OILFIELD-CHINA-CNPC-LEAD CONTRACTOR

IRAQ-BASRA-WEST QURNA 1 OILFIELD-CHINA-CNPC-LEAD CONTRACTOR

(240101) -- BASRA (IRAQ), Jan. 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Bassim Mohammed Khudair (2nd R), Iraqi deputy oil minister for extraction affairs, and other representatives attend a handover ceremony in Basra, Iraq, on Jan. 1, 2024. China's leading oil and gas producer, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), officially took over from U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil as the lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield on Monday. The West Qurna 1 oilfield, located about 50 km northwest of Basra, the capital of the namesake province, is one of Iraq's largest oilfields, with an estimated annual crude oil output of more than 25 million tonnes. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)

IRAQ-BASRA-WEST QURNA 1 OILFIELD-CHINA-CNPC-LEAD CONTRACTOR

IRAQ-BASRA-WEST QURNA 1 OILFIELD-CHINA-CNPC-LEAD CONTRACTOR

(240101) -- BASRA (IRAQ), Jan. 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Representatives attend a handover ceremony in Basra, Iraq, on Jan. 1, 2024. China's leading oil and gas producer, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), officially took over from U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil as the lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield on Monday. The West Qurna 1 oilfield, located about 50 km northwest of Basra, the capital of the namesake province, is one of Iraq's largest oilfields, with an estimated annual crude oil output of more than 25 million tonnes. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)

Spotlight on "two sessions": high-standard opening up

STORY: Spotlight on "two sessions": high-standard opening up DATELINE: March 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:26 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 2. STANDUP (English): HUANG AIPING, Xinhua correspondent 3. various of airplanes 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XU GANG, CEO of Airbus China 5. various of ExxonMobil's mega-investment project 6. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FERNANDO VALLINA, Chairman of ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co., Ltd. 7. various of ExxonMobil's mega-investment project 8. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FERNANDO VALLINA, Chairman of ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co., Ltd. 9. various of German company Karcher 10. various of China International Import Expo (CIIE) 11. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): TANG XIAODONG, President of Karcher Greater China 12. various of street views of China STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): HUANG AIPING, Xinhua correspondent "Over the past five years, China remained committed to opening up wider to the world and expanded internationa

ExxonMobil's 10-bln-USD project announces progress in south China

STORY: ExxonMobil's 10-bln-USD project announces progress in south China DATELINE: Feb. 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the project 2. SOUNDBITE (English): FERNANDO VALLINA, Chairman of ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Huizhou STORYLINE: ExxonMobil's mega-investment project in Huizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, made new progress as it completed the hoisting of heavy equipment and started the construction of a technology center on Wednesday. The technology center is ExxonMobil's first integrated center of its kind outside the North American headquarters with pilot plant, product development, and process development. SOUNDBITE (English): FERNANDO VALLINA, Chairman of ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co., Ltd. "It's going to improve our research and development capability in China. It's going to hopefully make it attractive for scientists, for researchers to come and work in this area. So we can work on the development of new pro

Mozambique starts to export liquefied natural gas through FLNG project in north

STORY: Mozambique starts to export liquefied natural gas through FLNG project in north DATELINE: Nov. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:00 LOCATION: Maputo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Coral South FLNG platform 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Portuguese): NAZARIO BANGALANE, Chairman of Mozambique's National Institute of Petroleum 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHENG JIANHUA, General Manager of CNPC Mozambique STORYLINE: Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced the start of the export of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in his country on Sunday. The oil tanker British Sponsor has already left Mozambican territorial waters, carrying the first cargo of LNG produced by the Coral South Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project in the north of the country. Coral South FLNG is Africa's largest and the second largest FLNG project in the world. It's the pioneering part of Mozambique's Area 4 mega gas project, which was a joint venture bringing together the Italian ENI, ExxonMobil of the U.S., China's CNPC (China National Petrol

Ship loading operation of large towers for ExxonMobil Huizhou project completed

STORY: Ship loading operation of large towers for ExxonMobil Huizhou project completed DATELINE: Nov. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ship loading operation STORYLINE: The ship loading operation of two large towers for ExxonMobil's complex in Huizhou, southern China's Guangdong Province, was recently completed in north China's Tianjin. Multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil broke ground on its solely-funded chemical complex in Huizhou in April 2020. The complex, with a total investment of about 10 billion U.S. dollars, will be built in two phases. The first phase with a 1.6 million tonne-per-year ethylene cracker and down-stream production equipment is scheduled to be completed by 2023 when construction on the second phase will begin. An annual operating income of 39 billion yuan (5.5 billion U.S. dollars) and 7.3 billion yuan of taxes will be expected when the first phase reaches designed capacity. The two large towers shipp

Fuel deliveries resume despite refinery strike in France

STORY: Fuel deliveries resume despite refinery strike in France DATELINE: Oct. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: LYON, France CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of gas station 2. SOUNDBITE (French): CYRIL MURZEREAU, Manager of a store with a petrol station 3. various of fuel delivery at a gas station STORYLINE: Supermarkets and petrol stations in France are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their fuel deliveries amid the fuel shortages across the country due to strikes at refineries. On Monday, fuel deliveries resumed from the ExxonMobil depot in Port-Jerome in Seine-Maritime after the strike on this site was lifted. SOUNDBITE (French): CYRIL MURZEREAU, Manager of a store with a petrol station "Our customers are not going to the store next to the gas station because of the fuel shortage. Our fear is that they slow down their frequency of store visits." French President Emmanuel Macron assured last week during a television program that he wanted the fuel crisis "to be resolved as quickly as

Parisians dispute over French government's intervention in energy workers' strike

STORY: Parisians dispute over French government's intervention in energy workers' strike DATELINE: Oct. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of petrol stations 2. various of refilling petrol stations 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): BERNARD, Paris resident 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): DELPHINE, Paris resident 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): CELINE, Paris resident 6. various of roads and cars 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): JAMES, Paris resident 8. SOUNDBITE 5 (French): ANTOINE, Paris resident STORYLINE: The French government has ordered local authorities to requisition workers needed to ensure petrol supply as France struggles with strikes at oil refineries operated by TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil. This practice has been described by strike supporting Parisians as a "shameful decision." SOUNDBITE 1 (French): BERNARD, Paris resident "My first reaction was that I thought it was an attack on the right to strike and nothing more. If the unions manage to hold out, I think all these big oil g

French PM to requisition workers as strikes at refineries continue

STORY: French PM to requisition workers as strikes at refineries continue DATELINE: Oct. 13, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:10 LOCATION: LYON, France CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of gas station running out of fuel 2. various of queue in front of a gas station 3. various of vehicles traveling on a highway STORYLINE: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday ordered local authorities to requisition workers needed to ensure petrol supply to service stations across the country as France struggles with strikes at oil refineries operated by TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil. "A salary disagreement does not justify blocking the country," Borne told the National Assembly. "To refuse to discuss is to make the French the victims of an absence of dialogue." According to Borne, 30 percent of the country's gas stations have already run out of at least one type of fuel, with the Greater Paris region one of the worst affected. Over the weekend, TotalEnergies and the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) agreed

Self-serve gas stations on the rise in Japan

Self-serve gas stations on the rise in Japan

Chiba, Japan - A female customer fills up at an ExxonMobil self-serve gas station with a coffee shop in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo. (Kyodo)