Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!
Reuters | Simon Johnson and Melissa Akin | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business
British oil major BP Plc accused the Russian partners in its TNK-BP joint venture of acting like corporate raiders on Thursday, but the Russian shareh...
Chris Kelly | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
Supply and demand is one factor in determining price, but another factor used to be called "competition." Again, I'm not an economist, but I'm pretty sure that was supposed to drive prices down.
New York Times | ANDREW E. KRAMER | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
BP's problems in Russia continued Friday. A Russian environmental agency announced that it would inspect a large oil field in Siberia, the Samotlor, ...
Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Oil in troubled waters. Death to the polar bears?
New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Britain's largest companies are pledging to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emis...
Financial Times | Sheila McNulty | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
BP will sell its more than 700 US convenience stores as part of the streamlining programme begun at the UK oil giant by Tony Hayward, new chief execut...
Wall Street Journal | Guy Chazan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Oil at $100 a barrel is a bane for fuel consumers. But it isn't entirely a boon for major oil companies, either. The rub: The economics of the produc...
Wall Street Journal | ANN DAVIS, MATTHEW DALTON, GUY CHAZAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
New BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward is making sweeping moves to clean up the oil giant's operational and regulatory troubles. Among them: an expec...
Laura Flanders | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics