The world’s top oil and gas companies are rushing to raise tens of billion of dollars in debt to help them weather one of the worst downturns in the sector’s history while faced with high fixed costs and looming dividend payments. Royal Dutch Shell , BP , France’s Total , Norway’s Equinor and Austria’s OMV have all tapped bond markets this week, raising more than $10 billion according to Reuters calculations. Oil prices sank 65% in the first three months of the year to lows of $22 a barrel as strict movement restrictions imposed around the …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
