A leaking well in the North Sea continues to hamper crude oil production from the Elgin field operated by Total SA (NYSE: TOT). The company has shut-in about 130,000 barrels/day of oil…
Paul Ausick Oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) announced that the company’s China subsidiary has signed a production sharing contract with China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), parent of publicly traded PetroChina Co.…
In an interview with the Financial Times, Vagit Alekperov, CEO of Lukoil said that Russia’s policy of retaining all its rights to offshore development of what are believed to be vast reserves…
Under a new development plan released today, China forecasts production growth of natural gas from its shale deposits of around 230 billion cubic feet by 2015, up from zero today. The country…
By now, most investors know that the large hedge funds are run by billionaires rather than millionaires. What many investors might not know is that some hedge funds are reaching the size…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) to sell more than $6 billion in shares in its AIA unit to pay back government loans. (Reuters) Jaguar Land Rover and Chery plan a joint venture in China…
This morning’s report from the US Energy Information Administration (our coverage here) showed that commercial crude oil inventories in the US rose by 4.2 million barrels last week. At the same time,…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) threatens a patent suit against Facebook, citing a number of violations. (Reuters) TransCanada (NYSE: TRP) cuts the length of its Keystone XL pipeline in the hopes of finishing some…
The smartphone wars have heated up as the industry’s leaders gather in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress. Most of the companies that currently run behind Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in smartphone market share…
The BP (NYSE: BP) oil trial is delayed for settlement talks. (Reuters) G20 ministers and central banks say Europe has to add money to its own funds before seeking outside aid. (Reuters)…
Steve Wynn pushes major shareholder Kazuo Okada off the board of Wynn Macau. (Reuters) AIG (NYSE: AIG) makes a large profit on portfolio gains. (Reuters) Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) legal fight with Proview International…
A panel suggests that Vivus diet drug Qnexa be approved by the FDA. (Reuters) Japan may cut crude oil imports from Iran by 20%. (Reuters) Poor results cause shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)…
Now that the Japanese partner of BP plc (NYSE: BP), Mitsui & Co’s MOEX, settled claims against it for its portion of the Macondo well explosion that killed 11 people and dumped…
The US Department of the Interior has approved an oil-spill plan presented by Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) to respond to a potential spill when the British/Dutch company begins to explore…
Paul Ausick About two weeks ago development-stage renewable fuel maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) was awarded a US patent for recovering alcohol cheaply during the fermentation process. The recovered alcohol is then used to…
