Oil-and-gas companies have built up a mountain of cash with few precedents in recent history. View Full Image FactSet/WSJ Six companies often described as Big Oil—Italy’s Eni, France’s TotalEnergies, the U.K.’s Shell and BP, and domestically headquartered Chevron and Exxon Mobil—reported nearly $160 billion in cash and cash equivalents across their balance sheets at the end of the first quarter. …
