Oil firms that want to stay in Venezuela are flooding the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control with applications for permits after Washington reimposed sanctions last month.
Sheffield, Pioneer's founder and a high-profile figure in the shale industry, has been barred from joining Exxon's board, according to the agreement reached between the companies and the FTC.
France received clearance from the European Commission to provide EDF a further $321.6 million for the front-end design phase of a project to develop small modular nuclear reactors.