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[maywillow] 03/5/2018 22:04

Total: Saft launches Uptimax nickel battery
03/05/2018 21:40 | Scholar | 44 | No vote on this news
With this battery, Saft targets a market for industrial backup batteries estimated at about 3 billion euros a year ...
Total: Saft launches Uptimax nickel battery

Saft launches the Uptimax nickel battery to replace lead batteries for industrial emergency applications. This new Uptimax nickel technology battery allows operators to replace their lead-acid batteries without modifying their existing charging systems. Faster to recharge, it ensures maximum availability and minimum interruptions. This new technology is ideal for critical applications where continuity of supply is essential, such as oil and gas exploration and production, as well as power transmission and distribution networks and factories.

With the new Uptimax solution, Saft is targeting a market for industrial backup batteries valued at around € 3 billion a year. Nickel technology offers decisive advantages over lead-acid batteries in terms of reliability, service life, total cost of ownership (TCO) and predictability of performance, without the risk of "sudden death".

The new Uptimax batteries are manufactured at the Saft plant in Oskarshamn, Sweden.

[waldron] 03/5/2018 16:57

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[waldron] 03/5/2018 12:54

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[waldron] 03/5/2018 08:42

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[waldron] 02/5/2018 17:40

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[sarkasm] 02/5/2018 14:01

02/05/2018 | 1:36 p.m.

Regulatory News:

Total (Paris: FP) (LSE: TTA) (NYSE: TOT):

Shareholders of the Company are invited to attend the Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on Friday, June 1st, 2018, at 10 am, at the Palais des Congrès 2, Place de la Porte Maillot - 75017 Paris.

The notice prior to the General Meeting containing the agenda and the draft resolutions was published in the BALO (Bulletin of the legal obligatory announcements) of March 21st, 2018 and the notice of convening the BALO of May 2nd, 2018.

The documents referred to in Article R. 225-83 of the French Commercial Code are made available to shareholders from the date of the convening of the Meeting, in accordance with the applicable regulatory provisions:

any registered shareholder may, up to and including the fifth day before the Meeting, request the Company to send such documents to him free of charge. For holders of bearer shares, the exercise of this right is subject to the provision of a certificate of registration in the bearer share accounts held by the authorized intermediary;
any shareholder may read it at the registered office of the Company, 2 place Jean Millier - La Défense 6 - 92400 Courbevoie, under the conditions provided for by the regulations in force.

The documents referred to in Article R. 225-73-1 of the French Commercial Code may be consulted and downloaded from the website total.com, section Shareholders / General Meetings / Meeting Documents.

About Total

Total is a global and global energy group, one of the largest international oil and gas companies, and a major player in low-carbon energy. Its 98,000 employees are committed to a better, safer, cleaner, more efficient, more innovative and more accessible energy. Present in more than 130 countries, Total strives to ensure that its activities are accompanied by positive economic, social and environmental benefits.

[waldron] 02/5/2018 12:31

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[waldron] 02/5/2018 08:26

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[waldron] 30/4/2018 17:44

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[waldron] 30/4/2018 08:58

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[waldron] 30/4/2018 08:29

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[florenceorbis] 28/4/2018 06:32

TOTAL EXTRACT FROM ALPHA

Your takeaway

Total is at an all time high, and has moved up about 10% in just the last month. If you are already in, I say, "Booyah," and stay put. It could go another 20% this year easily.

For those of us who weren't as lucky, perhaps I should say 'prescient', a couple of years ago to invest here, I am going to advocate waiting for a pull back. I expect we will see a reversion to the recent mean in the middle to high 50's, before it begins another leg higher.

The risk of course is we may not see that play out due to various factors moving the oil markets these days. It is one we will just have to take, as we stick very closely to investing discipline here at the Daily Drilling Report.

Bottom line- Total deserves a spot in the Oilfield All-Stars. I am putting a buy order in today for a price that will provide a 5.5% yield on cost. We can dream.

One note on the dividend. France charges a 30% tax on dividends which will reduce your payout.

[waldron] 27/4/2018 17:04

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[ariane] 27/4/2018 14:55

Big Oil Firms Hold Back on Drilling -- Update
27/04/2018 2:31pm
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By Bradley Olson and Sarah Kent

The world's biggest oil companies are awash in cash, thanks to rising crude prices. But few, if any, are going on spending sprees, even as the prospect of a global oil shortage looms.

Western energy giants including Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC just posted their best first-quarter profits in years, with most besting a time when crude sold for more than $100 a barrel.

Yet despite a 50% surge in prices since last year, drilling budgets at the largest oil-and-gas companies are up only about 7%, according to consultancy Wood Mackenzie.

Large publicly traded oil companies are moving carefully because they are under pressure from investors after spending heavily over the past decade when prices were higher, only to generate underwhelming returns.

"The newfound religion and confidence in the sector is, to say the least, fragile," said Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden. "We'll need to show a little longer that we actually mean what we say in terms of capital discipline."

By contrast, smaller U.S. shale producers -- especially those backed by private equity -- have seized on the opportunity to ramp up drilling and gain market share.

Two years ago, the top 30 U.S. companies accounted for almost 64% of production. That percentage has fallen to 60% this year, according to consultancy Rystad Energy.

"Big companies are still cutting coupons to show that they can live within their means," said Adam Flikerski, managing partner at BlackGold Capital Management LP, an asset manager that specializes in oil and gas lending. "Like technology companies, the smaller players are still rewarded for growth."

The wary response from the world's biggest producers comes as a global oil glut that has hung over the industry for the past four years finally appears to be withering away. Without stepped-up spending on new oil production, the International Energy Agency warns, the world could flip from abundance to supply crunch by 2020.

A lack of investment is "potentially storing up trouble for the future," the Paris-based agency said last month.

Still, many investors in publicly traded oil and gas producers are pressing executives not to sow the seeds of another price crash with excessive growth. Their apathy about oil's rally has shown.

While the price of Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, is up around 11% this year, a leading barometer of energy stocks, the MSCI World Energy Index, is only up around 4%. A number of companies have performed even worse. Exxon is down 3.9%.

The pace of share buybacks has been a key factor for performance so far. ConocoPhillips shares rose 3% Thursday after the company disclosed it had repurchased about $500 million in stock, as it reported that quarterly profits jumped 52% to $888 million.

Exxon fell 2% Friday in pre-market trading after announcing that it has not yet reinstated its longstanding program for buying back shares. Although the company posted its highest cash flow since 2014, it still fell short of analyst expectations for the second straight quarter. Profits rose 16% to $4.65 billion compared with the first three months of last year.

Shell's U.K. shares on Thursday fell 0.7% after the company missed cash flow expectations and failed to give more clarity on when it would begin buying back $25 billion in stock, as it reported quarterly profits rose by two-thirds to nearly $6 billion.

Chevron's stock rose 1.8% Friday after the company said first-quarter profits were $3.6 billion, up 36% from a year ago.

France's Total SA announced a 3.2% dividend increase Thursday. Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said the company will use the excess cash it rakes in with oil above $70 a barrel to reward shareholders with higher dividends and share buybacks.

"Some of you may be worried about the financial discipline, but I can tell you we keep in mind the discipline," Mr. Pouyanne told analysts.

Combined, profits at Exxon, Chevron, Shell and Total were $16.8 billion, the highest since 2014.

Sanford C. Bernstein expects the world's biggest oil companies to generate record amounts of cash in excess of new investments this year.

The spending constraints aren't so restrictive that the biggest companies are avoiding new developments completely. BP PLC, which reports earnings next week, sanctioned several new projects this month, including the second project in a $6 billion natural gas development in India.

Earlier this week, Shell announced plans for a new deep water project in the Gulf of Mexico. Exxon may take a final investment decision later this year on a new facility to manufacture polypropylene, a widely used form of plastic.

One reason for caution among larger companies is that some analysts, investors and executives still lack faith that crude prices will remain elevated through the end of the year.

"There's potential weakness on the horizon in oil prices," said Tom Ellacott, senior vice president for corporate research at Wood Mackenzie. "It's still quite an uncertain environment."

Smaller U.S. producers are exercising less caution, as many of them still have business models akin to startups'. They must invest in new wells to prove the viability of new prospects.

Those companies are a major reason why forecasters say U.S. oil output may reach 11 million barrels a day by the end of the year, surpassing the output of Saudi Arabia.

In February, companies that aren't among the top U.S. crude producers made up almost half the permits approved for new drilling, according to data and analytics firm DrillingInfo. In the past six months, those operators accounted for about 42% of permits. Permits are generally a useful barometer for future drilling activity.

Many such companies will be affected by shortages in labor and trucking, as well as pipeline bottlenecks in the Permian basin in West Texas and New Mexico, the heart of U.S. drilling activity. Those challenges could curtail production by about 400,000 barrels a day, but output will continue surging as many companies have secured the supplies and contracts needed to meet their goals, said Artem Abramov, vice president of analysis at analytics firm Rystad.

"We've got a completely new generation of small, private players with very ambitious growth plans in the Permian basin," he said. "Those plans will continue."

Write to Bradley Olson at [e-mail] and Sarah Kent at [e-mail]



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April 27, 2018 09:16 ET (13:16 GMT)

[waldron] 27/4/2018 08:23

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