作者：通北 来源：原创 发布日期：08-26
一 | Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. Including debt, Exxon is committing about $64.5 billion to the acquisition, leaving no doubt of the Texas energy company's commitment to fossil fuels as energy prices surge. Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.32 shares of Exxon for each Pioneer share they own.“I think fossil fuels, as the world looks to transition and find lower sources of affordable energy with lower emissions, fossil fuels oil and gas are going to continue to play a role over time,” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said during an interview with CNBC. “ That may diminish with time. The rate of that is, I think, not very clear at this stage. But it will be around for a long time.” Woods explained that Exxon and Pioneer will be able to use their combined capabilities to drive down emissions and produce lower carbon intensity oil and gas. Exxon purchased XTO Energy in 2009 for approximately $36 billion. In the late 1990s, the merger between Exxon and Mobil was valued around $80 billion.The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon's presence in the Permian basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Pioneer's more than 850,000 net acres in the Midland Basin will be combined with Exxon’s 570,000 net acres in the Delaware and Midland Basin, nearly contiguous fields that will allow the combined company to trim costs. That is a big driver of the deal. Natural gas rigs in operation have declined over 26% in the U.S. since the start of the year, according to government data, largely due to the rising costs for drilling materials and labor over the past two years. “Their tier-one acreage is highly contiguous, allowing for greater opportunities to deploy our technologies, delivering operating and capital efficiency as well as significantly increasing production,” Woods said of Pioneer in a prepared statement. The company will have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the Permian.Once the deal closes, Exxon Permian production volume will more than double to 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on 2023 volumes. It's expected to climb to about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2027. “The combination of ExxonMobil and Pioneer creates a diversified energy company with the largest footprint of high-return wells in the Permian Basin,” Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield said in a prepared statement. Citi's Alastair Syme wrote that the transaction could provide multiple benefits to Exxon. “Across the industry, the logic of consolidation in the highly fragmented Permian shale remains compelling with significant gains to be achieved from economies of scale by minimizing facilities spend, optimizing drilling and reducing" general spending, Syme wrote. Exxon is flush with cash. The company posted unprecedented profits last year of $55.7 billion, breezing past its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008 when oil prices hit record highs.Exxon Mobil Corp. has been using some of that cash on acquisitions. In July the company announced that it was buying pipeline operator Denbury in an all-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion.Pioneer Natural has been making similar maneuvers. In 2020 the company said it was buying Parsley Energy in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $4.5 billion. It then purchased DoublePoint Energy in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $6.4 billion in 2021.The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval from Pioneer shareholders. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4% in Wednesday morning trading.。
这起诉讼由旧金山的 Clarkson Law Firm 于当地时间周四提起。诉状称，Oura 戒指无法测量评估睡眠质量或判断睡眠阶段所需的任何生理信号，实际上依赖 AI 生成的估算结果，而这些结果“正确的概率就像抛硬币一样”。这起诉讼源于多年来 Oura 用户在互联网上分享对其睡眠监测准确性的失望。有些用户表示，自己明明感觉睡得很差，但 Oura 却告诉他们睡眠质量达到了最佳水平。还有一些用户对这款设备是否真的能够监测和识别睡眠周期表示怀疑。诉状写道：“为了迎合消费者希望拥有一款真正能够追踪睡眠、监测睡眠周期的设备，Oura 以 300 美元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 2,023 元人民币）起的价格销售昂贵的追踪戒指，并明确宣传其具备这样的能力：Oura 戒指能够看到只有医院睡眠实验室才能看到的东西，包括四种不同的睡眠阶段。”诉状进一步指出：“Oura 宣称的并不仅仅是测量心跳或体温，而是能够准确判断佩戴者所处的睡眠阶段 —— 而在现实中，这需要在头皮上放置电极、在眼睛上安装传感器，只有医院或其他临床环境才能做到这一点。”尽管如此，诉状称 Oura 仍将其智能戒指宣传为“为准确性而打造”，并声称产品能够提供“无与伦比的准确性”。诉状称，Oura 曾告诉消费者，其智能戒指的测量准确率可以达到 79%；而最近，公司进一步宣称，与临床睡眠实验室相比，其戒指的睡眠分期准确率可以达到 95%。
二 | 诉状还进一步声称，Oura 无法真正测量睡眠或睡眠周期，因为“睡眠发生在大脑中，而不是手指上”。Clarkson Law Firm 联合创始人兼管理合伙人 Ryan Clarkson 在一份通过电子邮件发送的新闻稿中表示：“当人们依赖一款设备来帮助自己做出与健康有关的决定时，错误信息是不能被容忍的。Oura 用户相信屏幕上的数字反映了真实情况。人们根据这些设备给出的不准确数据安排日常生活、解读自己的身体感受，甚至据此规划生活方式。
三 | ”他还表示：“将一款并不准确的睡眠追踪器宣传成精准、可靠的产品是危险的，因为人们会相信这些宣传，并据此改变自己的行为。”诉状要求 Oura 停止通过虚假宣传欺骗消费者，不再声称其可穿戴设备具备实际上无法提供的功能。原告还要求法院采取禁令措施，阻止 Oura 继续对产品能力作出误导性描述，并要求 Oura 向那些基于上述涉嫌虚假宣传购买产品的消费者进行赔偿。在这篇报道最初发布后，Oura 发言人向媒体发表声明回应称：“我们坚持自己的科学研究成果以及关于准确性的相关声明。与其他面向消费者的睡眠可穿戴设备一样，Oura Ring 会利用多种生理信号来估算睡眠阶段，包括心率、心率变异性、身体运动、呼吸模式和体温。”Oura 表示：“有大量经过同行评审的独立科学研究证据表明，不同睡眠阶段与人体生理状态中独特、可测量且可重复的变化有关，这也是为什么这些生理信号能够被可靠地用于睡眠阶段分类。”Oura 同时强调：“Oura Ring 并不是医疗器械，也不能替代临床睡眠检查。
四 | 不过，Oura 的睡眠分期功能已经在多项研究中得到验证，并与多导睡眠监测（polysomnography，PSG）进行了对比。
五 | 后者被视为睡眠研究的黄金标准。”Oura 还表示，多项第三方独立研究支持其关于产品准确性的说法，公司也一直公开披露影响 Oura 睡眠分期结果的机制和测量指标。
六 | 声明最后表示，Oura 否认诉状中的相关指控，并将“在适当的法律程序中进行抗辩”。
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