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...Pickens later said he copied his idea from Dome Petroleum, a Canadian group that had launched a raid on Conoco....
...Conoco in July announced a North Sea-for-Alaskan asset swap with BP....
...Conoco’s shares have trailed those of US peers by 10 percentage points over three years....
...Conoco will receive $10.6bn in cash and 208m Cenovus shares, valued at $2.7bn on March 28....
...Mr Smith says the fund giant, which manages $5.1tn in assets, also voted against similar resolutions at oil companies including Occidental and Conoco....
...ConocoPhillips last week filed a lawsuit accusing PDVSA and its US subsidiary Citgo of fraud, pointing to the planned swap as one example of their efforts to avoid paying damages in connection with Conoco...
...“Conoco’s proposition was very much based on its relationship with the regional government,” Mr Gustafson said....
...Employees say treatment is better at the “Conoco” plant in eastern Deir Ezzor. Syria’s biggest gas producer, the plant was named for the US company that first developed it....
...Since 2012, Conoco has doubled the volume of ceramic proppant – a sand-like material – it uses for hydraulic fracturing....
...PRs insist the arrival of the man who spun off Conoco does not presage a shake-up of Shell too. Even without it, he should prove more memorable than low-key predecessor Jorma Ollila....
...The Coronado well a few miles away from Shenandoah, drilled by Chevron with Conoco, Anadarko and Venari as junior partners, has also shown “very positive indications”, according to Conoco....
...They also note that Conoco decided to sell the Lukoil stake as part of a broader asset disposal plan aimed at reducing debt....
...In refining and marketing, profits fell 3 per cent to $201m; a better performance than for some of Conoco’s rivals....
...In 2002 he oversaw the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, creating the third-largest US oil company at the time....
...Mr Icahn has said strategic buyers could include Valero Energy, ConocoPhillips, Western Refining, HollyFrontier, Tesoro and Marathon Petroleum, and that he will sell the company for a premium....
...BG followed in the footsteps of US groups Chesapeake Energy and ConocoPhillips along with Norway’s Statoil and Royal Dutch Shell in moderating its short-term enthusiasm for shale gas ....
...Conoco is in the midst of breaking itself up into separate exploration and production and refining and pipeline units. Analysts offered mixed views on the Delta venture....
...“Eventually Conoco will have to grow the business.”...
...Less than a decade after the original merger between Conoco and Phillips Petroleum produced the third biggest oil company by production in the US, the company’s board decided to break up their creation....
...Conoco, for its part, seems to have done very well....
...However, the oil spill this summer at the Penglai 19-3 block, co-owned by Conoco and Cnooc and operated by Conoco, has highlighted the risks that foreign companies face when they are operating in sectors...
...Conoco is the first supermajor to attempt this but the initial reaction, a nearly 8 per cent rally, means it may not be the last....
...Conoco is splitting into its downstream and upstream divisions, in the name of creating shareholder value....
...Companies in the oil sector, notably Conoco-Phillips , have decided to divide downstream refining from exploration and production operations....
...Conoco is considering a variety of options – whether to partner with larger or smaller companies on exploration or discovered prospects – and is patient about getting a deal done....
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