{"id":146085,"date":"2026-04-19T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/?p=146085"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:37:55","slug":"big-oil-plows-billions-into-far-flung-drilling-sites-to-escape-iran-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/2026\/04\/19\/big-oil-plows-billions-into-far-flung-drilling-sites-to-escape-iran-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil Plows Billions Into Far-Flung Drilling Sites to Escape Iran Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"ef4qpkp0 css-1579sa9-Container e1jubwww0\">\n<p class=\"css-i0p3hh e1hmb59q0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/XOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"company\">Exxon Mobil<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"css-1p1beha-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/XOM\">XOM\u00a0<span class=\"css-1hk2j0i-ChicletChange e1vl9ktx3\">2.36%<\/span><span class=\"css-f7n30v-Arrow e1vl9ktx1\"><span class=\"css-1q7p60h-ArrowHiddenLabel e1vl9ktx0\">increase; green up pointing triangle<\/span><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/CVX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"company\">Chevron<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"css-1p1beha-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/CVX\">CVX\u00a0<span class=\"css-1hk2j0i-ChicletChange e1vl9ktx3\">2.39%<\/span><span class=\"css-f7n30v-Arrow e1vl9ktx1\"><span class=\"css-1q7p60h-ArrowHiddenLabel e1vl9ktx0\">increase; green up pointing triangle<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and other energy companies are speeding up their searches for new oil-and-gas prospects\u2014far away from the perils of the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-i0p3hh e1hmb59q0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Exxon recently outlined a potential plan to pump up to $24 billion into Nigeria\u2019s deep-water oil fields, while Chevron expanded its footprint in Venezuela.\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/UK\/XLON\/BP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"company\">BP<\/a>\u00a0bought stakes in oil blocks off the coast of Namibia, and\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/FR\/XPAR\/TTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"company\">TotalEnergies<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"css-1p1beha-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/FR\/XPAR\/TTE\">TTE\u00a0<span class=\"css-1hk2j0i-ChicletChange e1vl9ktx3\">1.90%<\/span><span class=\"css-f7n30v-Arrow e1vl9ktx1\"><span class=\"css-1q7p60h-ArrowHiddenLabel e1vl9ktx0\">increase; green up pointing triangle<\/span><\/span><\/a> signed an exploration deal with Turkey. Major oil companies could together create $120 billion in value from their exploration ventures in coming years, the energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie estimated Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon Mobil\u00a0XOM\u00a02.36%increase; green up pointing triangle,\u00a0Chevron\u00a0CVX\u00a02.39%increase; green up pointing triangle\u00a0and other energy companies are speeding up their searches for new oil-and-gas prospects\u2014far away from the perils of the war in the Middle East. Exxon recently outlined a potential plan to pump up to $24 billion into Nigeria\u2019s deep-water oil fields, while Chevron expanded its footprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"novedades-gapp-noticias":[],"lineas-trabajo-noticias":[],"industrias-noticias":[394],"mercados-noticias":[1359,438],"class_list":["post-146085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","industrias-noticias-oil-gas","mercados-noticias-america-del-norte","mercados-noticias-eeuu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146086,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146085\/revisions\/146086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146085"},{"taxonomy":"novedades-gapp-noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novedades-gapp-noticias?post=146085"},{"taxonomy":"lineas-trabajo-noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lineas-trabajo-noticias?post=146085"},{"taxonomy":"industrias-noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industrias-noticias?post=146085"},{"taxonomy":"mercados-noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapp-oil.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mercados-noticias?post=146085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}