BP profits down less than expected as output falls
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BP Plc posted a 1 percent drop in quarterly post-tax profit to $6.087 billion as production fell and refinery outages prevented the oil giant from taking full advantage of near-record refining margins.
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Noble Energy Inc.  said on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell as weakness in natural gas prices weighed on results.
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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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Oil giant BP Plc slashed its growth targets and raised spending plans on Tuesday, hitting its shares, as it reported better than expected, but falling, fourth quarter profits.
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Oil and gas producer Kerr-McGee Corp.  KMG.N on Wednesday reported a fall in quarterly profit,  citing a writedown related to a pigment plant and higher  environmental charges.
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Oil prices fell to a new six-month low   below $60 a barrel on Monday as news of BP restoring output at   Prudhoe Bay added to a sense of healthy supply.
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BP Plc  expects its oil and gas  production to have fallen 0.6 percent in the third quarter as  losses at its Alaska operations and sales of oil fields  outweighed gains from new start-ups and a benign hurricane  season.
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Energy giant BP, reeling from fatal safety errors and a boardroom scandal, said Tuesday that third-quarter profits almost halved owing to lower output, US gas prices and refinery outages.
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BP Plc  slashed its short and medium term growth targets on Tuesday, hitting the oil giant's shares, as it reported better than expected, but falling, fourth quarter profits.
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British energy giant BP, reeling from fatal safety errors and a boardroom scandal, said Tuesday that third-quarter profits slumped owing to lower output, weak US gas prices and refinery outages.
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Oil prices fell sharply on Monday in what traders described as a wave of profit-taking sparked by a steep decline in gasoline futures.
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Oil giant BP Plc saw its third-quarter  profits reduced by energy trading losses after its dealers got  on the wrong side of volatile markets.
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Oil fell below $77 a barrel on Monday as some funds booked profits after OPEC expressed concern over near-record prices and pledged to pump more crude if needed.
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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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Oil prices fell nearly 1 percent to below $93 a barrel on Tuesday, fading from their latest record high as investors took profits from a rally driven by a Mexican supply outage and the spiralling dollar.
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Oil prices fell to a six-month low  under $60 a barrel on Monday as BP's move to restore output at  Prudhoe Bay earlier than expected added to a sense of healthy,  secure supplies, while demand growth questions loomed large.
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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.