08.11.2012
- Spanish oil firm Repsol beat third-quarter profit forecasts on Thursday as higher output more than offset the loss of its YPF business in Argentina, which was seized by the...
11.08.2012
- Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF had an 8% increase in second quarter net profit to 833 million pesos ($181 million), it said in its first earnings statement...
26.07.2012
- Weaker prices for oil worldwide and for gas in North America took their toll on Royal Dutch Shell's profit in the second quarter. Shell, the second largest of the western world oil...
24.07.2012
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez advised Repsol on Monday to seek a friendly agreement in its dispute with Argentina and noted that the Spanish energy company held important assets...
22.05.2012
- Germany's Wintershall , the oil and gas arm of chemicals group BASF, said on Monday it was unperturbed by the enforced nationalisation of Argentine oil company YPF, having just...
14.11.2011
- Chinese oil giant Sinopec said on Friday it will pay $3.5 billion for a 30% stake in the Brazil unit of Portugal's Galp, extending China's drive to secure access to energy for its...
03.03.2011
- As fighting continues across Libya, the oil industry is trying to assess the output lost from Africa's third-largest producer. Most estimates suggest around half of the country's 1...
26.07.2010
- U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law last week imposing tough new sanctions on Iran's banking and energy sectors, hoping to curb Tehran's nuclear enrichment activities. The...
