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The US Might Begin Exporting Natural Gas (COP, MRO, LNG, CQP, APA, DVN, CHK, XTO, XOM)

Posted: June 8, 2010 at 11:12 am

For the past 40 years a natural gas liquefaction plant on Alaska's Cook Inlet has been producing LNG and shipping it to Asia. The plant is owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. ...
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Crude Oil Price Slide Should Help Refiners

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 1:40 pm

Crude oil prices are off more than 20% from their high of $87.15 on May 3rd. The major contributor to that slide are serious concerns over sovereign debt primarily in ...
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Refinery Stocks Still Worth Another Look (VLO, MRO, SUN, TSO, HES)

Posted: April 29, 2010 at 6:20 am

Hell may have frozen over in the world of oil and gas.  Shares of oil refinery companies seem to have finally turned a corner.  In this aspect, we would be ...
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Canadian Oil Sands: The Race to Secure Energy’s Future

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 2:08 pm

The oil sands deposit in western Canada has been called many things, but Canadian researcher and writer Alastair Sweeney may be the first to call them a "calming, stabilizing force ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMSC, SOLR, MRO, MIPI, SUN, TSO, TIF, UPS, VLO, ZION)

Posted: April 15, 2010 at 8:33 am

These are this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. GT Solar International, ...
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Summer 2010: Big Hurricanes, High Oil Prices

Posted: April 12, 2010 at 2:30 pm

In 2009, there were just three Atlantic storms that earned the hurricane monikers -- Bill, Fred, and Ida. None of these storms made landfall in the US as hurricanes. ...
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Once Dead Refining Industry Experiences Resurrection

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 4:08 pm

From the heady heights of the summer of 2008, oil refiners have suffered from a downturn. Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) and Tesoro Corp. (NYSE:TSO), which refine and market petroleum products ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIXG, BLK, CEO, DVN, FL, GPS, HGSI, JCG, MRO, RIMM)

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 7:29 am

These are this Thursday's top ten analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG) Started as Buy at UBS. BlackRock, Inc. ...
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A Flood Of Energy M&A: Schlumberger Buys Smith For $11 Billon

Posted: February 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm

The acquisition by Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) of competitor Smith International Inc. (SII) for $11 billion could be another sign that mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector will pick ...
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Magnifying Refinery Woes (CVX, XOM, XTO, COP, VLO, MRO, HES)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 9:39 am

The notion that an integrated oil giant is issuing an earnings warning with oil above $80.00 per barrel may seem ludicrous to most on the Street.  Yet that is exactly ...
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Cramer’s Energy Shortage Stock Picks for 2010 (APC, CHK, XOM, XTO, DVN, SWN, APA, CLR, RRC, LINE, CVX, MRO, WPRT, CLNE)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Jim Cramer came out on CNBC's MAD MONEY this evening with an interesting grouping of stock trends to invest in for 2010 and he thinks this is the year of ...
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Ida: The Hurricaneless Hurricane (OIH, USO, OIL, MUR, MRO, RDS, CVX, XOM)

Posted: November 9, 2009 at 10:27 am

Oil and gas companies have closed or winding down many US Gulf operations ahead of a very late in the year Hurricane Ida.  The weekend reports had this one dissipating ...
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Marathon’s Angola Stake Not Going to China After All (MRO, CEO, SNP, TOT, XOM)

Posted: September 24, 2009 at 9:29 am

Angola's state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has exercised its right of first refusal to purchase a 20% stake in block 32 offshore Angola from Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE:MRO). In July, Marathon ...
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Refiners’ Second Take: Valero’s Risk of Irreparable Harm (VLO, MRO, HES, TSO, SUN, TOT, VSUNQ)

Posted: June 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) may have caused some irreparable harm to itself and to shareholders this week.  Losing money is just not something that the investing public was ready ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (BMO, BIG, BMR, CTXS, HMY, MRO, ODP)

Posted: May 27, 2009 at 7:03 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative research calls we have seen from Wall Street firms early this Wednesday morning: Bank of Montreal (BMO) Cut to ...
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