HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - BP Plc and Husky Energy
were shutting units on Monday at their joint-venture,
BP-operated refinery in Ohio for a planned six-week overhaul,
sources familiar with the refinery's operations said. The overhaul at the 135,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery
involve
RABAT, March 22 (Reuters) - Longreach Oil and Gas Ltd
has started drilling of its Kamar-1 well in Morocco's
Sidi Mokhtar area with a planned depth of 3,500 meters, the
Moroccan Office of Hydrocarbons and Mining (ONHYM) said on
Saturday. Kosmos Energy and British Petroleum have also
started
LONDON (Alliance News) - BP PLC Friday said Lamar McKay, a divisional chief executive, sold 43,000 American Depositary Shares Thursday. Details of the sale are as follows: 29,611 ADSs at USD46.520 per ADS; 5,876 ADSs at USD46.530 per ADS; 4,340 ADSs at USD46.540 per ADS, and 3,173 at USD46.
(Adds BAE Systems comments) LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Around 40 percent of Scots plan
to vote for independence in this year's referendum, according to
a poll on Thursday which showed a three-point rise in support
for an end to the country's 307-year-old-union with England. The poll
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Around 40 percent of Scots plan
to vote for independence in this year's referendum, according to
a poll on Thursday which showed a three-point rise in support
for an end to the country's 307-year-old-union with England. The poll, carried out by Panelbase, showed
COPENHAGEN, March 20 (Reuters) - Denmark's Maersk Oil, a
unit in A.P. Moller-Maersk, said on Thursday it
expects a UK proposal for new tax breaks for ultra-high-pressure
high-temperature (HPHT) oil and gas projects to increase
investments in the North Sea. Britain's Chancellor George Osborn
* Sale garners $872 mln in high bids in central, western
Gulf * BP wins 24 bids for $41.6 million * Freeport McMoRan scores high bid at $68.79 million
(Updates with detail about bids, sale results, adds byline) By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, March 19 (Reuters) - BP Plc rejoin
TBILISI, March 19 (Reuters) - A consortium led by British
oil company BP has awarded construction and engineering
contracts worth $841 million for the Shah Deniz II gas project
in Azerbaijan, the consortium said in a press release on
Wednesday. six contracts Azerbaijan's biggest gas field,
HOUSTON, March 19 (Reuters) - BP Plc rejoined
bidders for exploration and production leases in the Gulf of
Mexico on Wednesday after the U.S. government lifted a ban
barring the company from such new federal contracts. The Environmental Protection Agency in late 2012 barred BP
from bidding
Investors should bet on a rebound on the UK's FTSE by selling April puts to fund
the purchase of calls, strategists at Societe Generale write in a note, as they
believe that recent weakness in the market has been overdone. The FTSE 100 has fallen 3.1 percent so far this month, and its poor
By Nailia Bagirova
BAKU, March 17 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's oil and condensate
output fell by 5.5 percent year on year in January-February to
6.8 million tonnes, the State Statistics Committee said on
Monday.
Falling output at the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli (ACG)
oilfields - the biggest oi
* Rosneft calls a possible visa ban 'stupid, petty' * Both CEOs of the two companies travel extensively * Companies have vast overseas operations By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova MOSCOW, March 14 (Reuters) - A possible ban on visas for the
heads of Russia's two b
* PM denies scare-mongering over Sept. 18 vote * Urges Scots to preserve 'family of nations' By Belinda Goldsmith and William James LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David
Cameron urged Scots on Friday to heed warnings from the head of
the Bank of England and b