ExxonMobil's Guyana Oil: A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity?

There are two main drivers for ExxonMobil, (XOM), in the face of crude’s relatively tight pricing band-low $70’s to low $80’s, for the most the past year. The first is the Guyana, Stabroek production ramp, and the related kerfuffle with Chevron, (CVX) over the nature of their proposed acquisition of Hess, (NYSE: HES). The second is the ongoing digestion of Pioneer assets and acceleration of Permian output toward 1.2 mm BOEPD. XOM is a huge company with a lot of irons in the fire-LNG, chemicals, carbon capture, refining, biofuels,…