Options Brief: Nexen Inc. (NXY)

Shares of Nexen Inc.

are higher on the session by 1.49%, trading at $22.42. Overall call volume is now running at 5.74x the daily average, with 47% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 5,899 contracts have traded on the session so far. Nexen Inc. is an independent, Canada-based global energy company. It operates in three segments: oil and gas, energy marketing, and chemicals. The oil and gas operations include the UK North Sea, Canada, Syncrude, US Gulf of Mexico, Yemen and Other International (Colombia, offshore West Africa and Norway).