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Exxon Mobil doubles down on fossil fuels with $59.5 billion deal for Pioneer Natural_我的网站

A |     Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. Including debt, Exxon is committing about $64.5 billion to the acquisition, leaving no doubt of the Texas energy company's commitment to fossil fuels as energy prices surge. Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.32 shares of Exxon for each Pioneer share they own.“I think fossil fuels, as the world looks to transition and find lower sources of affordable energy with lower emissions, fossil fuels oil and gas are going to continue to play a role over time,” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said during an interview with CNBC. “ That may diminish with time. The rate of that is, I think, not very clear at this stage. But it will be around for a long time.” Woods explained that Exxon and Pioneer will be able to use their combined capabilities to drive down emissions and produce lower carbon intensity oil and gas. Exxon purchased XTO Energy in 2009 for approximately $36 billion. In the late 1990s, the merger between Exxon and Mobil was valued around $80 billion.The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon's presence in the Permian basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Pioneer's more than 850,000 net acres in the Midland Basin will be combined with Exxon’s 570,000 net acres in the Delaware and Midland Basin, nearly contiguous fields that will allow the combined company to trim costs. That is a big driver of the deal. Natural gas rigs in operation have declined over 26% in the U.S. since the start of the year, according to government data, largely due to the rising costs for drilling materials and labor over the past two years. “Their tier-one acreage is highly contiguous, allowing for greater opportunities to deploy our technologies, delivering operating and capital efficiency as well as significantly increasing production,” Woods said of Pioneer in a prepared statement. The company will have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the Permian.Once the deal closes, Exxon Permian production volume will more than double to 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on 2023 volumes. It's expected to climb to about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2027. “The combination of ExxonMobil and Pioneer creates a diversified energy company with the largest footprint of high-return wells in the Permian Basin,” Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield said in a prepared statement. Citi's Alastair Syme wrote that the transaction could provide multiple benefits to Exxon. “Across the industry, the logic of consolidation in the highly fragmented Permian shale remains compelling with significant gains to be achieved from economies of scale by minimizing facilities spend, optimizing drilling and reducing" general spending, Syme wrote. Exxon is flush with cash. The company posted unprecedented profits last year of $55.7 billion, breezing past its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008 when oil prices hit record highs.Exxon Mobil Corp. has been using some of that cash on acquisitions. In July the company announced that it was buying pipeline operator Denbury in an all-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion.Pioneer Natural has been making similar maneuvers. In 2020 the company said it was buying Parsley Energy in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $4.5 billion. It then purchased DoublePoint Energy in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $6.4 billion in 2021.The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval from Pioneer shareholders. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4% in Wednesday morning trading.。    任天堂英国商店近日确认，Switch 2英国售价将于9月1日起上调至419.99英镑，较目前的395.99英镑上涨24英镑。英国玩家仍可在8月31日前按照现价购买。

B |     此次英国价格公布，也意味着任天堂此前宣布的Switch 2全球主要市场价格调整计划全部落地。今年5月，任天堂宣布将调整Switch 2在多个主要市场的售价，但当时并未公布英国的新价格。如今英国价格正式确定，并与美国、加拿大以及欧元区一样，于9月1日开始执行。具体来看，美国市场Switch 2售价将从449.99美元上涨至499.99美元，涨幅50美元；加拿大市场从629.99加元上涨至679.99加元，同样上涨50加元；欧元区则从469.99欧元上涨至499.99欧元，上涨30欧元，包括爱尔兰在内的相关市场均适用这一新价格。日本市场则已经提前完成涨价。

C | 5月25日起，日本地区限定日语版Switch 2售价从4.998万日元上涨至5.998万日元，上涨1万日元。    任天堂此前表示，除已经公布价格调整时间的市场外，包括韩国在内的其他地区也将由当地子公司陆续公布价格调整安排，但当时并未给出具体时间。任天堂社长兼代表董事古川俊太郎在5月8日发布的相关公告中表示，此次调整主要是由于市场环境发生变化，并预计这种变化将在中长期持续。同时，任天堂也对价格调整可能给消费者带来的影响表示歉意。随着英国新价格最终确定，Switch 2此前公布的主要海外市场涨价计划已经基本完成。本文由游民星空制作发布，未经允许禁止转载。

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