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CALGARY, Alberta, April 27 - Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd (PBG.TO) said on Monday it is selling part of its stake in Petrominerales Ltd (PMG.TO) for C$101 million ($83 million) to cut debt and help fund its development of a promising Western Canadian oil play. Petrobank ...
NEW YORK, April 23 - ConocoPhillips (COP.N) finished planned work on the crude distillation unit and the vacuum unit at its 58,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Billings, Montana, and returned them to service, according to the state regulator. Work continues on the coker and the gas ...
CALGARY, Alberta, June 9 - Canada's export agency has raised its 2009 oil price forecast, based on recent gains, but its chief economist said on Tuesday he does not believe the fundamentals support current levels just shy of $70 a barrel. Export Development Canada, a federal ...
MEXICO CITY, June 9 - Mexico's state oil company Pemex said Tuesday it was seeking bids to build a production platform at an small offshore field discovered last year. Pemex [PEMX.UL] said it expected the Kambesah field to produce approximately 13,700 barrels of oil and 9.3 ...
NEW YORK, June 9 - U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co [KKR.UL] has made a significant investment in East Resources Inc, the privately held natural gas company said on Tuesday. The size of the investment was about $350 million, according to a source familiar ...
SAO PAULO, June 8 - Brazilian state-controlled energy firm Petrobras (PETR4.SA)(PBR.N) will cut refinery prices for gasoline and diesel, the company said on Monday, but a rise in taxes on gasoline will keep rates the same at the pump. The firm would reduce gasoline prices from ...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) CEO Jeroen van der Veer said on Monday looking at current poor margins, the world has more oil refining capacity than needed. "It's a real cyclical industry. If you look at margins there's more refining capacity than one needs," ...
HOUSTON, June 8 - Alon (ALJ.N) reported flaring on Monday at its 70,000-barrel per day (bpd) Big Spring, Texas, refinery after a diesel hydrotreater and an LDH unit overpressured, according to a notice filed with Texas pollution regulators. Operators adjusted refinery operations ...
MEXICO CITY, June 8 - German software group SAP (SAPG.DE) denied on Monday any wrongdoing in the wake of last week's resignation of a senior Mexican oil executive who been accused by a newspaper of accepting a trip from the company. Manuel Reynauld, Pemex's [PEMX.UL] deputy ...
HOUSTON, June 7 - Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) shut a process unit at its 72,000 barrel per day (bpd) Kenai, Alaska, refinery last week due to an electrical equipment problem, the Peninsula Clarion newspaper reported on its website Sunday. A Tesoro representative was not immediately ...
BUENOS AIRES, June 7 - The Argentine unit of Spain's Repsol YPF (REP.MC) plans to invest $348 million to expand its refineries, local newspaper Clarin said on Sunday. Work on the expansions will start immediately, last 34 months, and enable the company to increase gasoline output ...
HOUSTON, June 14 - Alon USA Energy Inc's (ALJ.N) 54,000 barrel per day (bpd) Paramount, California, refinery was hit by a power outage on Saturday, according to a notice filed with California pollution regulators. The power outage triggered the refinery's safety flare system. The ...
NEW YORK, June 14 - An expected rise in natural gas prices and a large purchase of land that could yield vast amounts of it has energy company Range Resources Corp (RRC.N) well placed to see its beaten down shares soar, according to a report in the latest edition of Barron's. The ...
TORONTO, June 11 - Toronto's main stock index ended higher on Thursday as its weighty energy sector drew support from another rise in oil prices, helping the TSX reach its highest level in nearly eight months. Shares of energy companies did much of the session's heavy lifting as ...
HOUSTON, June 11 - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) confirmed on Thursday it planned to shut its 235,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Aruba for two to three months due to poor margins. The shutdown was scheduled to begin in late June and the refinery would be completely offline by early ...
LONDON, June 11 - European gasoline prices topped $730 a tonne on Thursday, for the first time since October, due to low stocks in Europe and the United States and an expected rise in demand. Traders said supplies in Europe were tight due to recent exports to West Africa and ...
NEW DELHI, June 11 - Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC.BO) may have suffered a 30 billion rupee ($632 million) loss of revenue for selling gas at government-fixed prices in the fiscal year 2008-09, its chairman said on Thursday. ONGC mainly sells gas to power and fertilser companies ...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 10 - Viterra (VT.TO), a leading Canadian farm supplier and grain handler, said quarterly profit fell on a writedown but brisk spending on fertilizer and seed helped the results top expectations. Shares of the Regina, Saskatchewan-based company rose after ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, JuA Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) gas station in Canada became the first in the world on Wednesday to fill tanks with gasoline containing biofuel made from wheat straw, Shell said. For a trial period, regular gasoline bought at a Shell service ...
TORONTO, June 10 - Toronto's main stock index closed higher on Wednesday as firmer oil prices boosted energy shares, but the rise was limited by caution about the prospects for the North American economy. The energy sector ended up 1.4 percent and was the key driver behind the ...
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