Analysis: Are high prices unpatriotic or as American as you can get?

President Joe Biden’s pointed criticism of oil and gas companies for earning massive profits as families suffer from high gasoline prices challenges a pillar of American capitalism: that U.S. companies should make as much profit as they legally can, and direct that windfall back to investors.
WalMart expands transportation partnerships with electric, hydrogen vehicle pilots

Retail giant Walmart Inc (WMT.N) on Wednesday said it was expanding transportation pilots with manufacturers of electric, hydrogen and natural gas-powered vehicles, including Cummins Inc (CMI.N) and Daimler Truck’s (DTGGe.DE) Freightliner.
Analysis: Sizzling U.S. energy stock rally confronts global growth worries

A scorching rally in U.S. energy shares has left investors facing a tough decision: hold on despite growing worries that global growth will slow or lock in profits in one of the few areas of the stock market that has thrived this year.
EXCLUSIVE U.S. weighs Chevron request to take Venezuela oil for debt payments -sources

The Biden administration is considering a Chevron Corp (CVX.N) proposal to allow the U.S. oil major to accept and trade Venezuelan oil cargoes to recoup unpaid debt, four people close to the discussions said.
Chevron kicks off oil industry’s fourth quarter results with a miss

Chevron Corp (CVX.N) on Friday reported a fourth quarter profit that missed Wall Street estimates despite sharply higher oil and gas prices.
U.S. Gulf crude oil ramps up after hurricane losses -data

U.S. Gulf Coast crude oil exports are flowing again after recent hurricanes took out 26 million barrels of offshore production, according to sources and Refinitiv Eikon data, with local prices easing as more shipments moved out of the region.
Buffett’s Berkshire pares drug holdings, sheds Axalta, Biogen

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said on Monday it trimmed or eliminated its stakes in several pharmaceutical companies, and reported a small new stake in a Merck & Co (MRK.N) spinoff, Organon & Co (OGN.N).
U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producers consolidation accelerates

Oil and gas producers in U.S. Gulf of Mexico have consolidated at a faster rate during the pandemic, new government data shows, as crashing prices squeezed out smaller drillers who had been seen as the industry’s future.
EXCLUSIVE Exxon, Chevron look to make renewable fuels without costly refinery upgrades -sources

U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), along with Chevron Corp (CVX.N), is seeking to bulk up in the burgeoning renewable fuels space by finding ways to make such products at existing facilities, sources familiar with the efforts said.
EXCLUSIVE Chevron to sell swath of Permian assets valued at more than $1 bln -sources

Chevron Corp (CVX.N) is looking to sell two collections of conventional oil and gas fields in the Permian Basin valued at more than $1 billion combined, three sources told Reuters.