ConocoPhillips News

NEW YORK &#8212 Shares of some top oil companies are up at 10 a.m.: Chevron rose $.88 or .8 percent, to $106.16. ConocoPhillips rose $.26 or .4 percent, to $72.51. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Glenda Mae Schwarz, officer, on Feb. 1 exercised her option to purchase 3,508 shares at $29.99 with a market value of $105,195. On the same day, Schwarz sold 3,508 direct COP shares at $69.28 with a market value of $243,050. The Houston-based integrated oil and gas firm reported $12.4 billion in full-year earnings for 2011.

ConocoPhillips' 146,000 barrel per day joint-venture Borger, Texas, refinery reported a process malfunction on Saturday, according to a notice the refinery filed with Texas pollution regulators on Sunday.

Even in this bastion of industry that hosts a refinery, residents are imploring their elected leaders to protect them from oil and gas drilling planned within city limits.

Despite a depressed economy, San Juan United Way had a record year of fundraising following its 2011 campaign, with businesses and individuals donating more than $3 million.

Analysts at Robert W. Baird upgraded two stocks to outperform on Friday, Alexion Pharma , and Sealed Air Corporation .

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As it turns out, ConocoPhillips' Shark Tooth 1 well in the Kuparuk River unit is an exploration well, per the drilling permit issued by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre has announced that it and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing an ice-worthy jack-up drilling rig for use in Arctic seas.

ConocoPhillips was upgraded by equities research analysts at Deutsche Bank from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note issued to investors on Friday.

In 2011, coastal advocate Ellis Pickett brought the attention of some old capped wellheads that were sticking up on the beach near High Island, to the the Texas General Land Office.

Long term value shop Tweedy Browne had a good year in 2011. All of their funds were up.

Alaska's Supreme Court held a hearing Feb. 8 on one aspect of a complex lawsuit over state oil and gas leases at Point Thomson, a large gas and condensate discovery east of Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope.

Several Roxanna and South Roxanna residents say the value of their homes has been damaged by the local oil refinery.

Several energy companies have reported a decline in oil and gas production in 2011, a trend that is not valued highly by investors.

NEW YORK &#8212 Shares of some top oil companies were mixed at the close of trading: Chevron fell $.07 or .1 percent, to $106.76. ConocoPhillips rose $.33 or .5 percent, to $72.25. Exxon Mobil Corp.

The sun sets over Arctic ice near the 2011 Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in this March 18, 2011 picture.

By the end of 2013, both companies plan to have an Arctic bound-and-ready jackup rig designed to sustain muti-year ice floes and can be towed through ice.

Leading U.S. investors today announced they have filed shareholder resolutions with Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips and 14 other oil and gas companies, pressing them to disclose their plans for managing environmental and workplace challenges such as hydraulic fracturing, greenhouse gas emissions and worker safety.

With interest rates on savings accounts, CDs and Treasury instruments remaining near record lows, investors and savers often look to higher yielding dividend stocks as a way to earn a decent return on their money.A Luckily, many companies are restoring or raising dividends.