After announcing Chevron's $53B deal to buy Hess, CEO Mike Wirth had a call with Guyana's President, Irfaan Ali, who urged Wirth to help pump the country's oil as fast as it could. Here's a look at the oil boom transforming Guyana; w/ Kejal પ્રવીણ Vyas wsj.com/business/energ…… via The Wall Street Journal

Nice double double-digit scoop day for @WSJdeals: ✔️Cigna-Humana nearing blockbuster merger ✔️Occidental in talks to buy CrownRock wsj.com/business/deals… wsj.com/business/deals… Lauren Thomas Laura Cooper Anna Wilde Mathews Benoît Morenne

It’s Tuesday, December 5. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the Russian FSB on March 29, 2023. 251 days ago. His crime was practicing journalism in Russia. JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME, VLADIMIR! #IStandWithEvan

BP and Shell are accusing gas startup Venture Global of ripping them off, a global feud reverberating from the US to the EU. But VG's CEO says he isn't losing sleep over the fight. “We are so busy executing, and winning." w/jenny strasburg wsj.com/business/energ…

Charif Souki undermined industry powers with exuberant and unwavering mercantilism. His faith had a logical foundation: the storms in his remarkable career were often chased by sunlight. Souki out as exec chairman of Tellurian. Via ⁦Benoît Morenne⁩ wsj.com/business/energ…

Scoop: Southwestern and Chesapeake are closing in on a roughly $17 billion energy merger. $SWN $CHK with Laura Cooper & Benoît Morenne wsj.com/business/energ… via The Wall Street Journal

Read Benoît Morenne and Andrew Restuccia on how the Rockefellers and billionaire donors funded an environmentalist campaign to pressure President Biden to pause approvals of LNG exports from the U.S.  wsj.com/us-news/climat…

"He'll never sell" has been an oil-patch mantra for years. Benoît Morenne w/ the story about what changed. Autry Stephens, one of the last Texas wildcatters, is about to become one of the world's richest men. He isn’t sure how he feels about it. wsj.com/business/energ… via The Wall Street Journal

Christian oil billionaire Tim Dunn has ripped up Texas politics, funding groups pushing Republicans to further extremes. His next move? To do the same nationally, as he works to assemble a Trump "administration in waiting" wsj.com/politics/polic… w/ Collin Eaton Benoît Morenne

Tim Dunn wants to do in DC what he's accomplished in Austin, says The Wall Street Journal. Also, and I didn't know this, he has "worked for a decade to construct an exact replica of Moses’ Tabernacle in West Texas, using materials imported from the Middle East." wsj.com/politics/polic…

NEW: Chevron warned investors Monday that Exxon Mobil and China’s Cnooc are asserting they have a right to pre-empt the company’s bid for a stake in a prolific oil project off Guyana, a big part of its $53B megadeal to buy Hess. wsj.com/business/energ… via The Wall Street Journal

The fracking techniques that fueled the shale boom are now being used to produce clean geothermal electricity, attracting investors and workers from the oil-and-gas industry. New story with Benoît Morenne: wsj.com/business/energ…

“It’s cleanish.” The Seine River has been closed to swimming for more than a century, in part because of sewage spills. Paris is racing to make it safe enough for swim events in the Summer Games. wsj.com/world/olympics… w/ Eve Hartley

An Oil-Patch Brawl Over a $53 Billion Megadeal Entwines the Legacies of Three CEOs, w/ ⁦Benoît Morenne⁩ wsj.com/business/energ…

Read this great Benoît Morenne profile of Chris Wright, Trump's pick for energy secretary wsj.com/articles/energ…

Trump vowed to "drill, baby, drill." But oil firms don't want to drill more. They have drilled record amounts under Biden and want help shoring up demand, and therefore prices, for the oil they already produce. ⁦Benoît Morenne⁩ ⁦Collin Eaton⁩ wsj.com/business/energ…

Notre Dame is reopening this weekend. Here’s a look inside the herculean race to rebuild the cathedral—and the controversies that nearly consumed it. wsj.com/world/europe/n… with Kelly Crow

Scoop with Benoît Morenne: Diamondback Energy is in talks to buy Double Eagle, a big West Texas energy producer, a sign that consolidation in the country’s biggest oil patch isn’t slowing down. $FANG wsj.com/business/energ… via The Wall Street Journal

Free trade fueled the U.S.’s rise as an oil-and-gas hegemon. President Trump’s America First era is set to force a painful readjustment. wsj.com/business/energ… via The Wall Street Journal Benoît Morenne