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Norway Ends Lockout Threat in North Sea Oil Fields

Posted: July 10, 2012 at 7:20 am

The government of Norway has ended a 16-day strike against offshore oil and gas producers and killed the threat of an industry lockout that was set to begin at midnight ...
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Norway Prepares to Lockout Offshore Oil Field Workers

Posted: July 9, 2012 at 1:02 pm

An association representing oil companies working on Norway’s continental shelf is preparing for a lockout against striking workers beginning at midnight tonight. If the lockout is enforced, about 6,500 workers ...
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Biofuels Maker Collapsing on Secondary Offering (GEVO, DD, BP, CDXS, AMRS, SZYM, KIOR, BG)

Posted: June 27, 2012 at 1:48 pm

Chemical and biofuels maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced this morning that it “intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, shares of its common stock and ...
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Exxon’s Natural Gas Confession Bad For All; Maybe An Earnings Warning? (XOM, CHK, BP, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR, UNG)

Posted: June 27, 2012 at 11:32 am

At a meeting in New York this morning, Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) CEO Rex Tillerson said that his company is “losing our shirts” on natural gas production. Did he ...
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Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Nets $2.6 Billion (XOM, COP, CVX, APA, RDS-A, APC, NBL, BP, BHP, STO)

Posted: June 21, 2012 at 7:39 am

The US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday held a lease sale for 39 million acres of US outer continental shelf open for development. The total ...
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Little Guy Beats Up Big Guys in Alternative Fuel Race, Shares Skyrocket (GEVO, DD, BP, TOT)

Posted: June 20, 2012 at 1:50 pm

Biofuels maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is seeing its share price skyrocket today following a court ruling that the company probably did not infringe on a competitor’s patents. Gevo is ...
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Is Natural Gas Staging a Comeback? (XOM, CHK, BP, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR, UNG)

Posted: June 15, 2012 at 11:10 am

It has been almost exactly two years since Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) completed its $31 billion merger with XTO Energy to create the largest natural gas company in the ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 14, 2012 (CS, ADBE, BBY, EAT, TSLA, BP, KR, PIR, SFD, WGO, CPST, RBY, NOK, LSCC, QCOM)

Posted: June 14, 2012 at 4:06 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning following the data on new US unemployment benefits claims (more coverage here) and 10-year Spanish bond yields that topped ...
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Is Oil Refining a Zombie Industry? (DAL, PSX, VLO, MPC, TSO, HFC, WNR, CVI, CG, XOM, CVX, BP, PBR)

Posted: June 14, 2012 at 11:46 am

When Delta Air Lines Co. (NYSE: DAL) agreed to buy an oil refinery from Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), the transaction underscored a shift that has been taking place in refinery ...
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Refinery Sale Suddenly In Jeopardy (PSX, COP, DAL, SUN, ETP, CG, CVX, VLO, XOM, BP, CVI)

Posted: June 7, 2012 at 1:24 pm

In December 2011, before the spin-off of Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) from ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Conoco was believed to be trying to sell its 247,000 barrel/day Belle Chase, Louisiana, refinery ...
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Outlook for Oil Refiners “Reasonable” Says Fitch (VLO, MPC, PSX, TSO, WNR, HFC, XOM, CVX, COP, BP)

Posted: June 5, 2012 at 2:36 pm

The current drop in crude oil prices is putting a little more cash in the pockets of consumers at the expense of the big integrated oil and refining companies. The ...
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BP Gets Lucky, May Have Buyer for Russian Joint Venture

Posted: June 1, 2012 at 7:34 am

In a brief press release this morning, BP plc (NYSE: BP) has said that the company has “received unsolicited indications of interest regarding the potential acquisition of its shareholding in ...
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BP Gets OK to Refine Oil Sands Crude in Indiana

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 8:37 am

The sixth-largest crude refinery in the US, in Whiting, Indiana, has the capacity to turn more than 400,000 barrels/day of crude into useful products like gasoline and jet fuel. BP ...
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After the Fall: Value in Oil Stocks (XOM, CVX, BP, SLB, HAL, BHI, VLO, MPC, TSO, OIH, XOP)

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 11:11 am

The month-long slide in crude oil prices has chopped the share price of many of the biggest names in the oil patch. Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is about -4% ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (F, WYNN, COF, BP, SYNC, CHTR, HL, OMX, THC, WEN, RST, PDC, AOL, CTL, AGU, DTG, M, MPEL, NWS, CSCO, TSLA, TM, PCLN, FOSL, DNDN, AVL)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower this morning as weak performance in the European markets as traders try to figure out what last weekend’s elections mean. Crude oil ...
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