What's with Lukoil and Valaro?
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I don't know about Valaro but Lukoil is a Russian company.They bought out Mobil gas stations but not Mobil oil.Therefore they've taken over all of the old Mobil sites.Valaro may be a subsidiary of Lukoil.To the best of my knowledge Citgo has been purchsed by 7 Eleven or vice versa.
960643
wow ,thanks for the link valadmir, its an awsome weapon....the russians are sure not for messing with.
108403
There is no formal relationship between the two, they do tend to move together though. \n\nThey are both commodities and all commodities tend to move together. Indexing and commoditiy funds might be partly responisble as well.
1058059
You're on to something here. I'm starting to think that the Trojan war was over oil, too. How else could they get that big Horse into Troy?
784096
Rare commodity anymore.\n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-pOypG0szd7Pv_X1rQxw_4qCWpA--?cq=1&p=182
1070696
LUKOL was taken over by Google.com  I don't know why, I liked LUKOL much better, becaue when I clicked on one of the finds, it opened to a new page. I could keep that page open and still go back to  LUKOL to see my other options. Google does not do that. I have to click my back button, and I do not like that.\n\nI WANT MY LUKOL BACK !!!!!!
202493
Moissanite is the way to go.. I LOVE mine (I don't like the whole diamond cartel crap so refuse to support it) look below for the story on them...
44111
Ok well the current JET (Joint European Torus) in Culham, Oxfordshire, UK is the biggest experimental fusion reactor in the world. Although the ITER is set to overtake it in France. There are many different fusion reactions that we can use, although the most preferable one is Deuterium-Tritium because it is one of the easist to kick-start. The big advantage with fusion is its (relative) safety and phenomenal power output. The amount of useful energy which we can obtain from nuclear fusion is staggering. It does not release pollutants into the atmosphere and although there is a radioactive by-product, this is not a problem since it is easy to deal with (unlike radioactive uranium and plutonium). The major disadvantage is the cost. The current fusion project in France almost didn't happen. Both Europe and Japan wanted it on their territory, but couldn't come to a compromise. In the end Europe insisted that they take the project alone and Japan can join in if they wish! The new reactor is in the stages of being built now but it will be some time before it is operational. And in its current state it is only in an experimental stage; it is not yet in a commercial stage, and won't be for many decades. However it is the perfect solution for producing electrical energy, with huge benefits (apart from the intial cost). See weblink for more detailed information.
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Check out gold and other commodity markets.  See Newmont Mining as an example of a gold company.  The oil companies are also producers of crude oil so they get to charge the current market rate for crude oil.  Major oil companies tend to be vertically integrated so folks don't see the commodity side of the business.
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Check this: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/global/index.html\nOther useful links:\n\nGazprom - http://www.gazprom.ru/eng/\nWikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG
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Big oil=big corruption.\n\nThey need to be investigated and charged.
454271
They had an earthquake there a few years ago. I heard that Georgia had an earthquake. I was talking to my mother about it and said, "I didn't even know they had a fault under them." That's when she told me it was the Georgia in Russia not in the U.S. I was clueless. :)
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Excellent question.  The technology is there, to some degree they are on the market.  My guess is the oil and gas companies will do everything in their power to keep them away from us on a large scale.
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Houston will add another publicly traded energy company to its roster later this year, when Roswell, N.M.-based Hondo Oil & Gas moves its corporate headquarters here. \n\nThis latest corporate relocation, however, isn't likely to excite the Houston housing market too much. \n\nOnly one Hondo employee -- C.B. McDaniel, company secretary and counsel -- will be moving from New Mexico to Houston. The corporate office eventually will house four workers. \n\nThe company's president and chief executive, John Hoey, won't be moving here. He'll continue to live in Pennsylvania. \n\nStill, Paul Hayes, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., said the move only makes sense. "Roswell is not exactly the transportation center of the Western Hemisphere." \n\nWith revenues of only $44,000 in fiscal 1995, Hondo Oil & Gas has never exactly been a blue chip stock. \n\nBut the chairman of this oil and gas producer is Robert O. Anderson, the former chairman of Atlantic Richfield Co. and a legend in the Oil Patch. \n\nAnd the company became the talk of the industry when it sold off all its other oil and gas assets and bet the ranch on one investment, development of the Opon gas field in Colombia. \n\nThe partners in the project, led by Chicago-based Amoco Corp., planned to build a $59 million pipeline and sell 80 million cubic feet of gas a day to Ecopetrol, Colombia's state-owned oil company. \n\nImpressed by the field's prospects and by the Anderson mystique, investors pushed up Hondo shares to a high of 241/8 in August. \n\n"This was a good project," McDaniel said. "It made sense." \n\nBut then the Colombian government changed the terms of the deal, insisting on a lower gas price ceiling and less-favorable pipeline tariff terms. \n\nSuddenly, the whole project was in jeopardy. Last week, Hondo's stock plunged to a low of 9¼. \n\nUnder the current terms, "we would think it probably would not go forward," McDaniel said. "We don't know at the moment." \n\nBy Wednesday, the company's stock had rebounded to 107/8 on word that London-based Lonrho PLC, the company's chief creditor, had completed its plan to gain control over 77 percent of Hondo Oil & Gas voting stock. \n\nAnderson will stay on as chairman of the company, though he and his family will retain only a minority stake.
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U.S. industry is controlled by the demands of the market (we, the buyers).  Unfortunately our government is NOT controlling what it should, and that is price fixing, monopolies and unfair trade practices. The breakup of Bell Telephone was a very good move, look what THAT brought us. Too many special interests now blocking similar breakups. Our oil companies are now holding back millions of barrels of oil to prop up the price (now that the election is over). In 1976 the Alyeska Pipeline was flowing at 96% flow rate, today it is under 30%, with twice as many producing wells on the north slopes.  THAT is what a monopoly gets you.  \n\nAffirmative action is the least of out worries...
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Should we be worried?  No.  The guy himself said that the ingredients used are very rare and only available on the black market, and we already know that there is quite a bit of old soviet nuclear material about.  I'd question who the guy was, and how he managed to get hold of the rare materials.
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I had long term gains in one of mine, so I took them. I may regret the move, but too many eggs in one basket is not the smartest consideration. I don't think I would sell VLO. It is better than gold. Actually, they all are but our congress is quite capable of doing really stupid things and they are painting big oil as the big boogy man. Keep that in mind, too.