{"id":501511,"date":"2026-01-08T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:33:09","slug":"a-houston-energy-giant-is-eyeing-international-assets-worth-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501511\/","title":{"rendered":"A Houston energy giant is eyeing international assets worth billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston-based companies could be teaming up on a reported $22 billion bid for international oil assets, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A giant public company and a major private equity firm \u2014 both based in Houston \u2014 could be teaming up to make a bid on $22 billion worth of international assets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/20e6d968-54c9-40ce-b9fd-bc066a908fff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Financial Times reported,<\/a> citing people familiar with the matter, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/organization\/chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chevron Corp.<\/a> (NYSE: CVX) and Quantum Capital Group are working on a bid to buy the international assets of sanctioned Russian oil company Lukoil.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/faqs\/1224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Lukoil as a sanctioned company<\/a>. Later that month, Lukoil announced it was working to sell its international assets, \u201cowing to introduction of restrictive measures against the company and its subsidiaries by some states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Various media outlets have reported that Lukoil valued the assets at $22 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/chevron-quantum-lukoil-bid-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Continue reading this story<\/strong><\/a><strong> on the Houston Business Journal&#8217;s website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story came to us through our partnership with the Houston Business Journal. Keep up with the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>latest Houston business headlines here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston-based companies could be teaming up on a reported $22 billion bid for international oil assets, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-501511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115859974211859602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}