New CNOOC oil leak found in China's Bohai Bay Sacramento Bee AP | ||
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Libya's Waha Oil Nears End of Workers' Strike Wall Street Journal By BENOIT FAUCON LONDON—Waha Oil Co. moved closer to resolving a dispute with workers after a company official said the government supports the dismissal of Chairman Bashir Elshahab. Workers went on strike last month to protest against Mr. Elshahab, ... | ||
ND likely to pass Calif. as oil producer this year San Jose Mercury News By JAMES MacPHERSON AP BISMARCK, ND—North Dakota will likely leapfrog California and may even overtake Alaska in the next year—far outpacing earlier industry predictions—to become one of the nation's three biggest oil-producing states, a government ... | ||
Bahamas oil drilling could begin by 2012 MiamiHerald.com The move cleared a major obstacle in the way of the | ||
Strong quake briefly halts Russian oil supplies to China Reuters By Vladimir Soldatkin and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck Russia's Far East near the Chinese border on Friday, shaking buildings hundreds of kilometres (miles) away, briefly halting Russian oil supplies to its ... | ||
Weakening Rupee Prompts Oil Refiners to Use Dollar Funding: India Credit Bloomberg Photographer: Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg The combination of a weakening rupee and | ||
China's oil demand growth slows further in Q3 - NDRC Reuters India By Jim Bai and Melanie Lee BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - | ||
Oil-fines bill advances in House Houma Courier Under the Clean Water Act, BP can be fined from $1000 to $4300 per barrel leaked after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. That could add up to fines of between $5 billion and $20 billion. The first $2.7 billion will go into the ... | ||
Oil jobs booming while the well runs dry for other industries Your Houston News “Aviation is among the fields of study that people may not realize is crucial to the oil and gas industry,” she said. Ironically, for the many oil and gas companies in the area, her comments help to illustrate a problem several in the industry say they ... | ||
US oil bears run for cover as prices spike-CFTC Reuters Africa The data may give some oil traders pause as it indicates the more than $10 a barrel surge in prices that week to almost $86 a barrel lacked substantial new buying from investors. It does, however, confirm that the pessimistic views related to the euro ... | ||
Uganda Interior Minister To Resign Amid Oil Probe Fox Business By Nicholas Bariyo and Alexis Flynn KAMPALA, Uganda -(Dow Jones)- Uganda's internal affairs minister said Friday that he would resign his position to pave the way for a smooth investigation into graft allegations in the oil sector during his tenure as ... | ||
US oil rig count hits record - Baker Hughes Reuters Africa Oil rig count up 10 at 1080 - Baker Hughes * About 53 pct of US rigs drilling for oil * Rig count 55.4 pct higher than a year ago (Recasts, adds details) Oct 14 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for oil in the | ||
Oil prices rebound ahead of G20 talks Ninemsn Oil prices pushed strongly upward on Friday as confidence grew that the G20 would put muscle into the eurozone rescue and US data showed signs of firming growth. | ||
North American Oil Demand Stalls -- Producers Suffer Margin Squeeze MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, NY, Oct 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Oil prices took a hit earlier this week despite fears of another recession fading as US jobs and manufacturing data suggested the economy would continue to grow. Gas consumption -- particularly in ... | ||
Brent-WTI Crude Oil Spread Hits Record as Worries About WTI Relevance Grow Wall Street Journal (blog) By Jenny Gross The price gap between the world's two main oil benchmarks widened to a record level Friday after the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index said this week that it will add Brent crude, the European crude benchmark, to its index starting in 2012, ... | ||
North Slope oil production on the rise Anchorage Daily News By KRISTEN NELSON With the exception of Endicott and Northstar, production at all Alaska North Slope oil fields was up in September over August. And August production was up over July as scheduled maintenance projects wound up. ... | ||
TransCanada restarts Keystone oil pipeline Montreal Gazette By Reuters October 14, 2011 CALGARY – TransCanada Corp. has restarted its Keystone oil pipeline to the US Midwest from Canada after a daylong shutdown it blamed on a backlog of crude supplies within Alberta, the company said on Friday. ... | ||
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Mutharika orders oil companies not to offload fuel Nyasa Times | ||
Increased oil drilling spurs concerns The Coloradoan Oil and natural gas can be found deep below the earth's surface at depths of 3000 to 14000 feet. Companies drill these wells vertically and even horizontally to get at the oil and natural gas in the |
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Oil Headlines - 15 October 2011
