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Cheney Greets King Abdullah In SaudiLand With High Fives As Oil Sails Past $100 Per Barrel

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted March 27, 2008 | Business

Read More: American Petroleum Institute, Bp, Department Of Energy, Energy Task Forcee, Enron, Epa, Exxonmobil, King Abdullah, Opec, Pres. Bush, President Harding, Saudi Arabia, Teapot Dome, VP Cheney, Washington Post

We did it! You can well imagine the high fives, the cheers and hugs as Vice President Cheney met with King Abdullah in Riyadh last week. $100-plus oil as the norm! What a triumph for King Abdullah and his protectors and cheerleaders in the current administration, spearheaded by the oil...

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Exxon Skimps On Oil Production To Boost Profits

BusinessWeek Via MSN | March 21, 2008 11:42 AM

Read More: Crude Oil Prices, Energy Companies, Exxon, Exxonmobil, Oil Production, Weak Economy

Reports of slackening demand sent oil down another 2.5% on Thursday to $101.84 per barrel. Crude prices have declined 7.6% since the beginning of the week. Not long ago, that would have been an astonishing plunge that shook the trading...

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Chief Justice Roberts Defends ExxonMobil

Think Progress | February 28, 2008 12:42 PM

Read More: Chief Justice John Roberts, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez Spill, Exxonmobil, Jeffrey Fisher, John Roberts, Supreme Court

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on how much money ExxonMobil should be forced to pay as damages for its Exxon Valdez oil spill 19 years ago. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank notes that Chief Justice John Roberts appeared...

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Chavez, Exxon and the Misuse of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted February 18, 2008 | Business

Read More: Congress, Department Of Energy, Exxonmobil, Hugo Chavez, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Venezuela, White House

With a slowing economy, rising inflation, the 'S' word, 'stagflation' is being bandied about. Now comes Hugo Chavez and threatens to cut off oil shipments to ExxonMobil in retaliation for Exxon's $12 billion court ordered freeze of Venezuelan assets for alleged breach of contract, and confiscatory actions against Exxon in...

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The Oil Industry's Future: An Illusory Platform

Charlie Cray | Posted December 10, 2007 | Business

Read More: Energy Policy, Exxonmobil, Global Warming, Iraq, Lee Raymond, Oil

It felt like I'd just walked onto the set of the sequel to Jurassic Park. There was an industry dinosaur who I'd thought was gone for good.

But no. Former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, and his colleagues at the National Petroleum Council, an industry committee that advises the Secretary of...

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Pirates Attack Exxon Vessel In Nigeria

Reuters | December 4, 2007 09:51 AM

Read More: Exxonmobil, Modern Day Pirates, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Pirates, Southern Nigeria

Pirates attacked a vessel operated by oil major ExxonMobil in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing a crew member and injuring another, private security contractors working in the oil industry said. Attacks by politically motivated rebels in...

Hugo Chavez's Most Dangerous Enemy? It's Chavez Himself

Ian Bremmer | Posted November 14, 2007 | Politics

In proven and unproven reserves, Venezuela is believed to control some 270 billion barrels of oil, the deepest supply in the world. As crude prices lurch toward $100 per barrel, President Hugo Chavez would appear to hold the only weapon he needs to further tighten his grip on domestic political...

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