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Cloud Peak Energy falls in first day of trading

AP News 10 hours ago

Shares of Cloud Peak Energy drop in first day of trading after raising $459 million in IPO Cloud Peak Energy shares are falling in their first day of trading Friday after the U.S. coal producer's initial public offering priced below expectations. Shares ...

Oil prices mixed as inventories stay high

AFP Global Edition 11 hours ago

Oil prices dropped on Friday and were likely to stay under 80 dollars because of high energy inventories in the United States, the world's biggest energy-consuming nation, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for December delivery, fell 21 cents ...

FROM RUSSIA WITH NOT A LOT OF LOVE

BusinessWeek 18 hours ago

FROM RUSSIA WITH NOT A LOT OF LOVE Just how tough is Gazprom? As the world's biggest supplier of natural gas, the Russian company has a reputation for hard-nosed bargaining. So when John Hattenberger, chief of the company's new U.S. operation, hired ...

CHINA WATER & ENERGY: REAPING THE WIND

BusinessWeek 18 hours ago

CHINA WATER & ENERGY: REAPING THE WIND As Chinese cities have become increasingly polluted, the government has laid out ambitious plans to lessen dependence on fossil fuels. By 2020, Beijing aims to have 15% of the nation's electricity come from wind, solar, ...

Junior explorer shines on platinum results

Stockhouse 22 hours ago

Speculators piled into a small platinum play Thursday, while others took heed of a heavy oil resource estimate.'+company+ ' (TSX: '+exchange+'.'+symbol+', Stock Forum)'+percent+' Stockhouse Canadian Small and Micro-cap Stock Report for Thursday, November 19, 2009 TORONTO (SHfn) – Speculators piled into a ...

Obama administration pauses on Alaska drilling

AP News yesterday

At oil company's request, Obama administration delays decision on Alaska offshore drilling The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea. The delay came after the ...

Marathon cuts 2010 capex by $1B, shares fall 4 pct

AP News yesterday

Marathon Oil cuts 2010 capital spending by $1 billion, shares tumble Marathon Oil will cut capital expenditures by about $1 billion in 2010, the company said Thursday, with a larger percentage of funds going toward exploration and production and a smaller percentage ...

Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR

AP News yesterday

Woman awarded nearly $3 million to settle claim she was raped while working for KBR in Iraq A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million ...

Big Oil to Congress: Expand offshore drilling

Reuters Environmental Online Report yesterday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from two major oil companies told Congress on Thursday that the U.S. government should open more offshore areas to oil and natural gas drilling so America can rely less on foreign suppliers. "There is some hypocrisy in locking ...

Offshore Drilling Shell

AP News yesterday

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil Co., talks during an interview in New York. Odum said Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, the company did not ask a federal agency to delay a decision on ...

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