Exxon Mobil profit falls
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  reported a  slight decline in fourth-quarter earnings Thursday due to lower  natural gas prices and shrinking profits from gasoline sales.
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British energy giant BP has said that net profits dipped in 2006, reflecting a decline in production and refining margins, despite record peaks for crude oil prices in the middle of the year.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  posted lower fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday on weaker 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. history.
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BP  reported a 45 percent fall in third-quarter replacement-cost profit to $3.867 billion due to lower oil and gas production, problems at its refining division and fewer asset sales which had flattered the year-earlier result.
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Exxon Mobil Corp  said on Friday record oil prices boosted its fourth-quarter earnings to $11.66 billion, the highest ever operating profit by a U.S. company.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N, the world's  largest publicly traded oil company, on Thursday reported a  rise in quarterly profit, driven by soaring oil and gas prices  in the quarter.
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U.S. blue chips fell on Wednesday as a steep decline in commodity prices and lower crude oil dented shares of Alcoa Inc.  and Exxon Mobil Corp., outweighing strong earnings from McDonald's Corp. .
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U.S. oil and gas producer XTO Energy Inc. on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit declined 5 percent as lower natural gas prices weighed on results.
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BP PLC reported a 29 percent slump in third-quarter net profit on Tuesday due to higher maintenance costs and outages at key refineries, but some analysts said the worst might be over after a run of operational problems at Europe's second-largest oil company.
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Fourth-quarter profit fell by 9 percent as energy prices declined, but the company still ended up with its third consecutive year of record earnings.
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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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First-half earnings of Shanghai Petrochemical plunge    HONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The pre-tax profit of Shanghai Petrochemical, an oil refiner under Sinopec, plummeted 97.6 percent to 52.7 million yuan (6.6 million U.S.
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U.S. oil prices fell more than $1 on  Monday on continued profit-taking as producer-group OPEC eyed  increases in the coming months in its tight spare capacity,  countering worries over stumbling Iraqi oil exports.
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Oil dropped more than a dollar towards $89 a barrel on Monday as falling global stock markets spurred profit taking.
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LONDON, Feb. 6  â BP said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 22 percent to a two-year low, driven down by the declining price of oil and increased safety spending.
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Oil prices dropped sharply today in what traders called a wave of profit-taking sparked by a steep drop in gasoline futures. In afternoon trading, November crude futures traded at US$53.
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US energy stocks such as Exxon Mobil Corp. declined as crude oil futures dropped to their lowest in almost two months. The Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index was little changed following its biggest three-week advance since 2002.