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2 hrs ago | The Guardian

The crude reality of oil prices | Tom Bower

'The difference in price also depends on the distance between the oilfields and refineries in three locations: Oklahoma, the North Sea and Dubai, as well as other factors.' Photograph: Getty The bankers have finally got their revenge.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust, Energy

6 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

US rig count is unchanged at 1,769

Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. remains unchanged this week, at 1,769. The Houston-based company said Friday in its weekly report that 1,408 rigs were exploring for oil and another 354 for gas.

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Related Topix: Baker Hughes, Pennsylvania

10 hrs ago | Daily Camera

Boulder County will assess fees on oil and gas industry vehicles

Boulder County commissioners decided Thursday night to assess impact fees on oil and gas companies drilling and operating future wells in unincorporated Boulder County to mitigate the wear and tear their heavy trucks and other vehicles are projected to cause on county roads.

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Related Topix: Boulder County, CO, Longmont, CO

13 hrs ago | Sunday Herald

Cairn appeases investors to win support for pay policies

CAIRN Energy, one of the most high-profile victims of last year's shareholder spring of discontent over executive pay, appears to have returned to shareholder favour.

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Related Topix: Energy, Cairn Energy

18 hrs ago | Arkansas Online

Exxon Mobil: Pipe's fissure still a mystery

Almost two months after an aging pipeline split open and spilled an estimated 210,000 gallons of crude oil into a Mayflower neighborhood, forcing scores of residents to evacuate their homes, injuring wildlife and contaminating a cove of Lake Conway, Exxon Mobil said Thursday that it still does not know what caused the spill.

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Related Topix: Exxon Mobil, Energy, ExxonMobil Chemical, Chemicals, Mayflower, AR

22 hrs ago | Burlington Times News

Norquist leads tax reform advocates across state

As the state's Republican Party began a push toward tax reform, Grover Norquist and representatives of Americans for Prosperity traveled the state Thursday campaigning for reduced income tax.

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Related Topix: Tax, Energy, Koch Industries, North Carolina

Thu May 16, 2013

Agassiz Harrison Observer

Kinder Morgan pipeline clears early hurdle

Work on a section of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline near Jasper. Some sections of the route are already twinned.

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Related Topix: Energy, Chevron Corporation

AdelaideNow...

Norwegian giant moves in on Bight oil

NORWEGIAN energy giant Statoil has signed a farm-in deal with BP to create a joint venture exploring for petroleum in the Great Australian Bight, south of Ceduna.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust, Energy, Australia, Oceania, World News

The Campbell Reporter

Anna G. Eshoo: Keystone XL pipeline won't live up to TransCanada's promises

An environmental activist holds a sign in Bryant Park, protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, May 13, 2013 in New York.

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Related Topix: Energy, TransCanada, Natural Gas, Mayflower, AR, Opinion

The Miami Herald

Hess, Elliott reach deal, end fight

Hess has reached a deal with a major investor to end a bitter fight over the management and direction of the oil and gas company.

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Related Topix: Amerada Hess

The Times-Picayune

Apache asking state, feds to let it keep Pickets standing

Ship Shoal 26 features the main platform that's slated for deconstruction but also a series of pilings and wellheads to its east, where Capt.

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Related Topix: Apache

WHIO

A look at EU investigation of oil price fixing

The head office of Statoil in Stavanger, Norway, in this file photo dated Jan. 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Statoil ASA, Norway, World News

Wed May 15, 2013

WFIE-TV Evansville

US government set to make record profits from student loans, more than top corporations

As student loan borrowers are getting crushed under massive student debt, the federal government's student loan program is set to turn about $51 billion in profit, according to predictions from the Congressional Budget Office .

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Related Topix: ExxonMobil Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Energy, Chemicals, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

KYKR-FM

Refinery Fire Claims Second Victim

The April 17th fire at the Exxon-Mobil refinery in Beaumont has claimed a second life.

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Related Topix: Exxon Mobil, Energy, ExxonMobil Chemical, Chemicals

The Globe and Mail

Angola LNG fire mars latest start-up attempt

The Soyo LNG tanker, which was expected to take on one of Angola's first cargoes for export, entered the facility on April 16 but sailed out of the port again two days after the fire.

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Related Topix: Energy, Chevron Corporation

Trend

Turkey signs agreement with Exxon Mobil on oil exploration in Iraqi Kurdish autonomy

Turkey signed an agreement with the U.S. company Exxon Mobil on oil exploration in the territory of the Kurdish autonomy of Iraq, the HA1 4rriyet newspaper quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying.

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Related Topix: Turkey, World News, Middle East, ExxonMobil Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Energy, Chemicals, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iraq

IcStafford

David Cameron, Stuart Hazell, Sir Mervyn King and Prince Harry

Norwegian company Statoil also confirmed its office in Stavanger was inspected by officials from the European Commission yesterday as motoring campaigners spoke of fears of consumers being conned.

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Related Topix: World News, Prince Harry, Statoil ASA, Conservatives (UK), Pop/Rock, John Lennon, NHS

Forbes.com

Oil States' Bondholders Will Make A Chunky Premium Before...

Oil States International went from an obscure oilfield services firm to one of the hottest stocks in the market in just a few weeks.

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Related Topix: Oil States International, Energy, Business News

Tue May 14, 2013

Charleston Gazette

Natural gas chopper

Jon Bolton shows Todd Elston and Sadie Richardson, both of Denver, the Chesapeake CNG Chopper -- the world's first natural gas-powered chopper.

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Related Topix: Chesapeake Energy, Energy

University of Kansas

Gift creates geology professorship at KU

University of Kansas alumna Kathleen Hall, of Lecompton, has made a leadership gift to establish a geology professorship at the University of Kansas.

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Related Topix: Geology, Science, University of Kansas, Kansas, Lecompton, KS, Exxon Mobil, Energy

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