30.05.2013
- About 30% of shareholders of both Exxon Mobil and Chevron on Wednesday backed calls for more disclosure surrounding their use of hydraulic fracturing, the top two U.S. oil...
02.05.2013
- Finnish chemicals group Kemira believes stricter environmental regulation of its customers in the oil and gas industry will create a big new market for its water treatment...
04.04.2013
- Royal Dutch Shell put its Geelong oil refinery in Australia up for sale as mounting competition from Asia and reduced margins hammer the country's crude processors. The refinery...
14.03.2013
- Vitol, the world's largest oil trading house, has been barred by pricing agency Platts from its daily European "window" naphtha trading session after failing to deliver on time...
01.03.2013
- Dutch oil and chemicals storage firm Vopak missed fourth-quarter operating profit forecasts and warned of only limited growth this year as a weak manufacturing sector cuts demand...
19.02.2013
- Top oil trader Vitol is increasingly dominant in European oil markets, taking a stranglehold on Urals crude to the Mediterranean and the naphtha and gas oil markets that rival...
18.02.2013
- Russia's top crude producer Rosneft said its chief executive had started talks in China over the possibility of increasing oil supplies to the world's largest energy consumer. The...
04.12.2012
- Germany's Wintershall has made what could be a major oil discovery in the Dutch North Sea, pending appraisal drilling in 2013, the company said on Tuesday. Wintershall, the...
