Axios

The world's largest publicly held oil-and-gas companies are slated to report third-quarter earnings this week.

Why it matters: It provides the latest window into how the companies are handling modest oil prices and sluggish global demand growth.

Big fires and power outages are wreaking havoc in California and spreading into the 2020 elections, too.

The intrigue: The fires, PG&E's controversial shut-offs, and criticism of the power giant have spilled into the presidential race.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In a few years’ time, offshore wind could power the slot machines at this beachside gambling town.

Driving the news: As I reported for this week's "Axios on HBO," Danish company Ørsted, the world’s largest developer of this kind of energy, is planning to put nearly 100 massive turbines 15 miles into the Atlantic Ocean that could power a half-million homes — but opposition and delays could stymie that goal and the industry writ large.

ExxonMobil and other big energy companies will likely be cool to President Trump's idea of working with the U.S. to produce oil in Syria, analysts say.

Driving the news: Trump reiterated the idea and name-checked Exxon during remarks this morning on the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. forces.