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ConocoPhillips is a US-based independent exploration and production firm. In 2023, it produced 1.2 million barrels per day of oil and natural gas liquids and 3.1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, primarily from Alaska and the Lower 48 in the United States and Norway in Europe and several countries in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Proven reserves at year-end 2023 were 6.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Occidental Petroleum is an independent exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the end of 2023, the company reported net proved reserves of nearly 4 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Net production averaged 1,327 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2024 at a ratio of roughly 52% oil and natural gas liquids and 48% natural gas.

Stocks turn positive for the week on Thursday on trade talk optimism. President Trump announced that the U.S. and the UK have made an agreement on trade. Trade representatives from the U.S. and China are also slated to meet this weekend in Switzerland to work out trade terms. The Dow gained 254 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, and the Nasdaq advanced 1%.

Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company. The firm was created by the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and UK-based Shell Transport & Trading. It is the seventh-largest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas 'supermajors'. The shares of Shell plc are not a component of the S&P 500 index and the company currently employs about 96,000 people.