Following the recent news that Chevron Corp (Chevron) will acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corp (Anadarko) for $33 billion, Jonathan Markham, Upstream Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the deal: “The acquisition is a continuation of Chevron’s recent focus on upstream operations…
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