With big oil stocks like Chevron holding their value after last year's market meltdown and crude prices dropping more than $100 a barrel from the summer, both long-term investors and short sellers are sniffing out opportunity.
Oil prices staged a late-session rally Friday as credit markets loosened, but the gain only slightly tempered a month in which crude fell by the largest monthly percentage since the Nymex contracts began trading.
Oil producer BP reported a 63% increase in profits Tuesday to a whopping $7.6 billion. Royal Dutch Shell's first-quarter earnings increased 25% to a record $9.1 billion.
Stocks ended lower Tuesday, erasing session gains, after oil prices settled at a record $100.01 a barrel and gold and other commodities spiked, raising worries about how inflation will impact an already weakened economy.
Oil companies are blamed (unjustly) for high gas prices, loathed for profiting from them, and criticized for their environmental record. So it's no wonder that most industry CEOs have made themselves scarce. Chevron's David O'Reilly is the exception. He regularly talks to reporters and appears on television to answer questions about Chevron and the industry.
Chevron Corp. said Monday it would add a major gasoline production unit to its oil refining facility in Pascagoula, Miss.
Oil prices jumped almost $2 a barrel Thursday, and neared a new record high, following a surprise drop in U.S. crude inventories, a strike at Chevron's operations in Nigeria and a fire at BP's Alaska oil field.
Enriched by high oil prices, Chevron Corp. will spend up to $15 billion buying back its own stock - a commitment that pleased shareholders and rankled critics clamoring for bigger investments in projects that might help lower energy costs.
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said Tuesday it will split its global upstream operations into four operating companies along regional lines to better manage its growth.
Chevron Corp posted a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in quarterly earnings Friday on higher profits from its refineries and a gain from the sale of its stake in power company Dynegy Inc.
With big oil stocks like Chevron holding their value after last year's market meltdown and crude prices dropping more than $100 a barrel from the summer, both long-term investors and short sellers are sniffing out opportunity.
Oil prices staged a late-session rally Friday as credit markets loosened, but the gain only slightly tempered a month in which crude fell by the largest monthly percentage since the Nymex contracts began trading.
Oil producer BP reported a 63% increase in profits Tuesday to a whopping $7.6 billion. Royal Dutch Shell's first-quarter earnings increased 25% to a record $9.1 billion.
Stocks ended lower Tuesday, erasing session gains, after oil prices settled at a record $100.01 a barrel and gold and other commodities spiked, raising worries about how inflation will impact an already weakened economy.
Oil companies are blamed (unjustly) for high gas prices, loathed for profiting from them, and criticized for their environmental record. So it's no wonder that most industry CEOs have made themselves scarce. Chevron's David O'Reilly is the exception. He regularly talks to reporters and appears on television to answer questions about Chevron and the industry.
Chevron Corp. said Monday it would add a major gasoline production unit to its oil refining facility in Pascagoula, Miss.
Oil prices jumped almost $2 a barrel Thursday, and neared a new record high, following a surprise drop in U.S. crude inventories, a strike at Chevron's operations in Nigeria and a fire at BP's Alaska oil field.
Enriched by high oil prices, Chevron Corp. will spend up to $15 billion buying back its own stock - a commitment that pleased shareholders and rankled critics clamoring for bigger investments in projects that might help lower energy costs.
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said Tuesday it will split its global upstream operations into four operating companies along regional lines to better manage its growth.
Chevron Corp posted a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in quarterly earnings Friday on higher profits from its refineries and a gain from the sale of its stake in power company Dynegy Inc.
Chevron (CVX) ranks no. 4 on FORTUNE's list of America's largest corporations.
Four Americans working off the coast of southern Nigeria were abducted by unknown kidnappers overnight, an oil company official said Wednesday.
Stocks fell at the open Friday after the government said the economy grew at the weakest pace in four years
Oil prices steadied near $58 Wednesday after government said supplies of crude oil rose less than expected but the fall in gasoline stocks was less than thought.
China's growing appetite for oil will be a challenge for U.S. consumers already facing rising gas prices, but an opportunity for Chevron, CEO David O'Reilly said Tuesday at an analyst conference in New York.
Every oil company likes to claim it's really in the energy business. But at Chevron, chief technology officer Don Paul is seriously thinking about the day the petroleum wells run dry. The first way we'll cope, he says, is by extracting usable fuel out of tar sands, oil shale, and coal.
The U.S. Interior Department abandoned claims that the oil giant Chevron underpaid the government for natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, which could pave the way for other energy firms from paying royalties to the government, according to a report published Tuesday.
Auto-racing legend Mario Andretti has met his share of corporate bigwigs over the years - though none, he says, quite as memorable as Patricia Woertz. The suits usually ask him the same questions a...
Auto-racing legend Mario Andretti has met his share of corporate bigwigs over the years - though none, he says, quite as memorable as Patricia Woertz. The suits usually ask him the same questions as the fans: What was your scariest wreck? What's it like to be one of only two drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500? And just how frustrating were all those losses at Le Mans?
The energy crisis is over. You just might not be that happy with the ending.
Chevron Corporation ranks no. 6 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $189.5 billion in revenues, up 28.1% from the previous year. The San Ramon, California-based company was ranked no. 11 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $14.1 billion, up 5.8% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Chevron and its partners have successfully extracted oil from a test well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, an achievement that could be the biggest breakthrough in domestic oil supplies since the opening of the Alaskan pipeline.
Oil stocks are showing no signs of slowing down.
Most FORTUNE 500 companies employ brigades of lawyers to limit their legal liability. But how many worry about their "moral liability"? Probably not enough, if only because the lines are blurring between the two.
It's either a great time (record profits, soaring share prices) or a terrible time (Capitol Hill's scrutiny, the public's ire) to be a Big Oil chief executive.
Judging by the tens of billions (and yes that's billions with a B) the big oil companies are reporting in earnings for 2005, you'd think this is as good as it gets for companies like Chevron, Exxon, Shell and BP. Their shares are up, they've got a friend in the White House (even if he has been daring to talk about alternative energy), and they literally have more cash then they know what to do with. Heck, when was the last time it was cooler to be a member of Houston's Petroleum Club than be a tech type in Austin?
Corporations may soon have to think twice before forming a joint venture with a competitor.
As firefighters battled blazes at an oil depot north of London for a fourth day, the Hertfordshire Fire Brigade responded to criticism that it was not adequately prepared for Sunday's explosions and subsequent fires at the Bunceford Oil Depot.
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ChevronTexaco, the second largest U.S. oil company behind ExxonMobil, is dropping the Texaco part of its name and will go by just Chevron.
ChevronTexaco has reached an agreement for the $18 billion acquisition of Unocal, a large slow-growing independent that has exceptionally big reserves of oil and natural gas. Both the terms and the timing of the deal provide useful bellwethers for key price trends in the energy industry.
Record high crude oil prices weighed on stocks Monday morning, although a pair of upgrades for Dow stock AIG and some mega-merger news helped temper the impact.
Still looking for a really terrifying Halloween costume idea? Here's a thought. Just wear a barrel with a big number $55 on it.
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