Production woes knock BP profits
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Oil giant BP sees its latest profits slump 45%, hit by a slowdown in production and refinery problems.
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Shares fell as Caterpillarâs disappointing profit fueled caution over the economy, while a pullback in crude oil prices from a record high hurt shares of energy companies.
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Profits fall at nuclear firm British Energy on higher costs, such as those related to environmental issues.
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Conoco's higher upstream income wasn't able to overcome lower refining results.
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BP PLC said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit dropped 22 percent to a two-year low, driven down by the declining price of oil and increased safety spending after a series of high-profile mishaps including a deadly refinery blast in Texas and an oil spill in Alaska. The oil company also slashed its growth targets and raised its capital expenditure forecast for this year.
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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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Oil giant BP sees production levels fall in the third quarter of 2006 after problems at its Prudhoe Bay site in Alaska.
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BP Plc, the world's second largest oil  company, reported bumper third-quarter earnings on Tuesday on  the back of high oil prices.
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High oil and gas prices and bigger profit margins in refining helped the British energy giant BP PLC nearly double its third-quarter earnings.
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Annual profits rise sharply at oil giant Chevron but a slump in gas prices leads to a drop in profits in the final quarter.
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World oil prices slipped on Thursday as  dealers began to take profits from the week's Hurricane  Ivan-inspired gains, betting that the worst of the storm's  disruption had been factored into prices.
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LONDON  - British energy giant BP PLC said Wednesday that oil and gas production rose four per cent in the fourth quarter of 2004, largely due to higher output from Russia, but added that higher taxes there would take a chunk out of earnings.
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High oil and gas prices and bigger profit margins in refining helped BP PLC drive up third-quarter earnings by 53 percent, the company said Tuesday.
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U.S. integrated oil company Marathon  Oil Corp. MRO.N on Tuesday reported a fall in quarterly  profit, as hurricanes and disruptions in oil and gas production  outweighed record prices for crude oil.
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BP Plc posted a 12 percent fall in fourth-quarter replacement cost (RC) net profit to $3.895 billion on Tuesday as oil and gas production fell and costs and taxes rose but the oil giant still beat forecasts.
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BP will cut 5,000 jobs after reporting "disappointing" profits as margins were squeezed and costs rose.
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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, reports a 5% fall in operating profits despite the benefit of higher fuel bills.