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July 24, 2007
Drilling for a future as an oil rig behemoth
...drilling department of Union Oil for $753,000 in 1946...foreseen that one day their company would be worth $18bn...led to such a shortage of rigs that they have...oilcompanies' search for oil and gas. Yesterday...GlobalSantaFe, the company descended from the original Union Oil division, was acquired...s biggest drilling company, worth some $53bn...includes the return of some $15bn to the two... By Francesco Guerrerain New York
November 16, 2009
Under a cloud
...would, if enacted, increase the value of the market to several hundred billion...group. But behind the seeming success of these trading rooms is a more complicated...range from ExxonMobil, the biggest US oil company, to Friends of the Earth, the environmental campaign...as "the new subprime". The European Union's Emission Trading System (ETS... By Fiona Harvey and Ed Crooks
November 15, 2009
Under a cloud
...would, if enacted, increase the value of the market to several hundred billion...group. But behind the seeming success of these trading rooms is a more complicated...range from ExxonMobil, the biggest US oil company, to Friends of the Earth, the environmental campaign...the new subprime”. The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS), the... By Fiona Harvey and Ed Crooks
January 28, 2010
Speech: The State of the Union
...up on my desk does not meet the test of real reform, I will send it back. Next...than energy. You can see the results of last year’s investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1,200 jobs nationwide...to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people...making solar panels.But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more...about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued... By
August 10, 2005
Observer - Asia
...audacious bid to take over Unocal, the California oil company, was scuppered last week because of resistance to the deal in the US capital...well aware of the political perils of swallowing the smaller but more profitable Belgian company and hopes to avoid a backlash by appealing...the European ideal. Only a handful of the small Societas Europaea exist though many of the European Union’s countries – including last month France...
April 25, 2008
Left in the cold
...among the rich nations. A succession of developed countries have recently tightened...Nor does this simply reflect suspicion of sovereign wealth funds from oil-rich autocracies. Stable, mature democracies...raise its stake in the Japanese energy company J-Power, a decision sharply criticised by Peter Mandelson, European Union trade commissioner. New Zealand recently...Canada itself prevented Alliant Techsystems of the US from buying the space technology... By Alan Beattie, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Raphael,Minder
May 26, 2009
BP and Russians put nominees forward
...Maxim Barsky belongs to the generation of entrepreneurial young Russian businessmen...flying careers in Russia. The son of an oilman, Mr Barsky studied at Berkeley University in California before opening a brokerage in New York...briefly invested in and ran an internet company. In 2004 he was appointed general director of West Siberian Resources, a struggling independent oil group in which he had invested. He...vice-consul in Uganda when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He moved into the... By Isabel Gorst in Moscow
May 27, 2009
TNK-BP to test out CEO candidates
...race intended to result in appointment of a permanent chief executive within six...the former chief operating officer of TNK-BP, who has served as interim...vice-consul in Uganda when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He moved into the...Alfred Berg, the Swedish brokerage company, then owned by ABN-Amro. Since 1997...held top management posts at a number of large industrial Russian companies including...mining company. Mr Skitovich has no oil industry experience. Home favourite...Barsky studied at Berkeley University in California before opening a brokerage in New York... By Isabel Gorst in Moscow
September 5, 2008
Call of the wild
...says Larry Nichols, chief executive of Devon Energy, the biggest US company solely engaged in oil and gas exploration and production...recently leased about 45,000 acres of primarily federal lands to look for oil and gas. But before the company was able to conduct any work, the Bureau of Land Management asked for an environmental... By Sheila McNulty. Photographs by John-Paul Jespersen
June 16, 2008
Progress in a journey of modest steps
...the contribution from Pemex, the state oil company, fiscal income still only amounts to about 12 per cent of GDP. That level is incompatible with...unable to persuade the more moderate of two opposition parties – the Institutional...extensive deep sea reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. A bill giving the state-owned oil company greater organisational and financial... By Richard Lapper and Adam Thomson