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Norway Ends Lockout Threat in North Sea Oil Fields

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

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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Exxon’s Natural Gas Confession Bad For All; Maybe An Earnings Warning? (XOM, CHK, BP, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR, UNG)

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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US Gas Drilling Slowdown Hits Supplier (KEX, BHI, XOM, CHK, EOG, RRC)

A major supplier of the engines and transmissions that drive the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at US oil and gas wells announced this morning that it is reducing its second quarter ...
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Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Nets $2.6 Billion (XOM, COP, CVX, APA, RDS-A, APC, NBL, BP, BHP, STO)

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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Exxon Kills Shale Gas Exploration in Poland (XOM, CVX, MRO, STO)

Based on early geological studies, Poland was believed to be sitting on about 187 trillion cubic feet of natural gas locked up in the same kinds of shale formations that ...
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Is Natural Gas Staging a Comeback? (XOM, CHK, BP, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR, UNG)

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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Is Oil Refining a Zombie Industry? (DAL, PSX, VLO, MPC, TSO, HFC, WNR, CVI, CG, XOM, CVX, BP, PBR)

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)

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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Natural Gas Inventories Rise, Price Drops (XOM, CHK, EOG, UNG)

The US Energy Information Administration today reported the US natural gas stocks rose by a total of 62 billion cubic feet, considerably above the 53-57 billion cubic feet increase that ...
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Outlook for Oil Refiners “Reasonable” Says Fitch (VLO, MPC, PSX, TSO, WNR, HFC, XOM, CVX, COP, BP)

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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Exxon Considering Natural Gas Exports (XOM, CHK, EOG, APA, ECA, LNG)

At the company’s shareholders meeting today, the CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) said that Exxon is studying the possibility of exporting natural gas from the US Gulf Coast ...
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After the Fall: Value in Oil Stocks (XOM, CVX, BP, SLB, HAL, BHI, VLO, MPC, TSO, OIH, XOP)

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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Coal, Natural Gas Reaching Price Parity (XOM, CHK, EOG, CNX, BTU, ANR, ACI)

Natural gas prices have been rising, getting to around $2.75/thousand cubic feet last week before falling back a little to around $2.69. At this level, coal once again enters the ...
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Papua New Guinea LNG Project Threatened

Canada-based exploration & production company InterOil Corp. (NYSE: IOC) said yesterday that it believes the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is preparing to cancel the agreement under which the ...
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