To Please Investors, Big Oil Makes Deepest Cuts in a Generation
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Oil companies are making the largest cost cuts in a generation to reassure investors. They’re risking their own future growth.
From Chevron Corp. to Royal Dutch Shell Plc, producers are firing thousands of workers and canceling investments to defend their dividends. Cutbacks across the industry total $180 billion so far this year, the most since the oil crash of 1986, according to Rystad Energy AS, an Oslo-based energy consultant.