21.08.2012
- Royal Dutch Shell plans to spend at least $1 billion a year exploiting China's potentially vast resources of shale gas, the firm's top China executive said, part of an aggressive...
21.08.2012
- China's leading offshore oil producer CNOOC said its first-half net profit fell by almost a fifth - twice as much as the market had expected - and it cut its dividend by 40% to...
20.08.2012
- A European crackdown on pollution from ships will require billions of dollars worth of investment by shipping firms on filter technology and by refineries on upgrades to produce...
13.08.2012
- Tesoro moved on Monday to create the biggest U.S. refining empire in the Pacific Basin with a $2.5 billion deal to buy BP's Carson plant in the isolated California market. If...
13.08.2012
- Oil and gas companies are racing to find a new substitute for India's guar bean, a key ingredient used in hydraulic fracturing, the drilling technology that has revolutionized the...
11.08.2012
- Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF had an 8% increase in second quarter net profit to 833 million pesos ($181 million), it said in its first earnings statement...
08.08.2012
- An hours-long fire that has shut down the core of Chevron's Richmond refinery, the second-largest in California, was extinguished early on Tuesday as fears that it may have to...
07.08.2012
- A massive fire struck at the core of Chevron's large Richmond, California, refinery on Monday, spewing flames and a column of smoke into the air, threatening a prolonged outage...