Exxon Abandons Flagship Azeri Well
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U.S. oil major ExxonMobil's hopes of a big  oil strike on its flagship Azeri offshore field faded on Monday  after it said it had shut down the first ultradeep well there  after failing to find commercial deposits.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  posted lower fourth-quarter earnings Thursday on weak natural gas prices and shrinking gasoline profits, but earnings for the full year 2006 were an eye-popping $39.5 billion, the highest in U.S. corporate history.
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Exxonâs profit of $39.5 billion broke the record it set last year for the largest profit ever by an American company.
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PetrÃ³leo Brasileiro, the Brazilian energy company known as Petrobras, canceled a meeting of its executives and Bolivian government officials after Bolivia took steps this week to take over the companyÂs oil operations in the country. Petrobras said the Bolivian measures, which included the takeover of two refineries, the only ones in Bolivia, and its distribution system, would render its Bolivian operations Âunviable.Â The meeting had been scheduled for Friday.
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High energy prices help US oil giant Exxon Mobil report the highest ever annual profit by a US company - $39.5bn.
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Oil extended losses for the seventh   consecutive session on Tuesday, retreating to under $64 a   barrel after Iran sounded a softer note on its atomic program   and OPEC agreed to keep production steady for now.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. , the world's  largest public oil company, on Thursday reported quarterly  profit surged 35 percent to top $10 billion, driven by yet  another quarter of sharply higher oil prices.
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Noise from a Russian gas field  in the Pacific Ocean is driving the endangered grey whale away  from one of its few feeding grounds, says the WWF environmental  group.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas  - Azeri, Horse of the Year  in 2002 and a near certainty for the Distaff Race in the  Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park Saturday, is to run instead in  the tougher but much more prestigious $4 million Classic.
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MOSCOW Russia completed the dismantling of Yukos, its largest oil producer, on Sunday, selling its main subsidiary to a company that was essentially unheard of until three days ago.
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THUNDER HORSE PLATFORM, Gulf of Mexico -- The day after massive Hurricane Dennis churned through the Gulf of Mexico in July 2005, a commercial vessel traveling past BP PLC's hulking Thunder Horse oil platform radioed the bad news to its owner: The platform's top deck was listing into the water.
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A Siberian court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the BP PLC's local subsidiary over the amount of gas it produces, opening the way for regulators to pull the license to the company's giant Kovykta gas field.
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Nigerian villagers have ended their three-day occupation of three oil installations in the Niger Delta. Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said the protestors on its two plants had departed to nearby village Freetown, on Tuesday.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N, the world's  largest publicly traded oil company, said on Friday it would  take a charge of $550 million in the third quarter to cover  claims from gas station owners who sued the company for fuel  overcharges.
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Almost a year has passed since the then-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky was jailed. Meanwhile, the oil giant he founded is about to lose its core asset, Yuganskneftegaz, that produces 60 per cent of all its oil.
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The last few tons of sticky toxic fuel oil have been sucked out of the wreck of the Prestige tanker, Spain said on Friday, almost two years after the ship went down in the country's worst environmental disaster.
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Unocal Corp. and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group are withdrawing from a natural gas exploration project in the East China Sea, the companies said Wednesday, citing &quot;commercial reasons.