BP announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2014. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter of 2014 was $3.6 billion, 34% higher than the $2.7 billion reported for the same period in 2013 and 13% higher than the ...
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Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, and petrochemical company Sibur Friday reached an agreement under which the oil producer will sell its 49% stake in a gas processing joint venture to Sibur and guarantee supply of up to 10 billion ...
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Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose to levels not seen since the start of the global economic crisis in 2008, increasing by 11 per cent in 2013 to an estimated $1.46 trillion, with the lion's share going to developing countries, ...
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Rosneft’s Board of Directors approved Vankorneft as an operator of three business projects: Lodochnoye, Suzunskoye and Tagulskoye fields, as well as construction of a 150-megawatt gas-turbine thermal power plant for their power ...
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Tass reported that TNK-BP management has presented a report to leading NGOs on the company's key projects to minimize its environmental impact in 2012,including the latest data on its associated gas utilization,incident rates,pipeline ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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Weakening crude refining margins and middle distillates cracks have led to low buying interest among Northeast Asian refiners for prompt May loading ESPO blend crude, trading sources said Thursday. Three to four of the 19 ESPO blend crude ...
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BP has a portfolio of 45 major upstream projects that it wants to focus on to 2020, company CEO Bob Dudley said Thursday, following the company's unprecedented $38 billion asset sell-off program in the wake of the Macondo oil spill in 2010. ...
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BP announced Friday an $8 billion share buyback program, following through on a promise to reverse the dilutive effect on earnings from its sale of its stake in TNK-BP. BP, which completed the sale of its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft on ...
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BP announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012. Underlying replacement cost profit, adjusted for non-operating items and fair value accounting effects, was $4.0 billion for the fourth quarter, compared to ...
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The Russian government's energy commission will discuss licensing issues, including changes to the license for the Trebs and Titov field, as well as ways to tackle oil spills at its next meeting, likely to take place in February, Russia's ...
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Russia's crude oil production hit a record high of 518 million mt (10.4 million b/d) in 2012, preliminary data released Wednesday by the energy ministry's Central Dispatching Unit showed, as the country cemented its position as the world's ...
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Reuters reported that Rosneft,seeking to wrap up Russia's largest-ever takeover deal,raised USD 16.8 billion in bank loans and signed long-term supply deals with two leading oil traders that could be worth as much as USD 50 billion. ...
Rosneft reported that British oil major BP’s CEO Robert Dudley will help oversee Russian oil giant Rosneft’s integration with TNK-BP to help introduce best international business standards, the companies said in a statement on ...
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Russia's state-owned Rosneft has signed two loan agreements with a group of international banks for a total of $16.8 billion to finance acquisition of BP's 50% stake in Anglo-Russian TNK-BP, the company said Monday. "Pursuant to these ...