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ThinkstockAlthough the technique known as hydraulic fracturing was first tried in the 1950s, it did not become popular (read, “economic”) until a small company called Mitchell Energy &...
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ThinkstockWhen oil services firm Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) pleaded guilty to destroying evidence in an investigation of the causes of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 workers...
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ThinkstockWeyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) reported second-quarter fiscal 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The wood products REIT posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on...
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thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 41 billion cubic feet last week, compared with an expected build of between 47...
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ThinkstockMetallurgical coal miner Walter Energy Inc. (NYSE: WLT) today cut its quarterly dividend from $0.125 to $0.01. The cut was demanded by creditors in order to let the company amend a $2.73...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories dropped by 2.8 million barrels last week,...
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ThinkstockYesterday afternoon, Hercules Offshore Inc. (NASDAQ: HERO) reported a problem at a natural gas well in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico about 55 miles offshore of Grand Isle, La....
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ThinkstockIn a current research report, the oil field service and equipment analysts at Jefferies maintain that investors should be overweight the sector. Demand prospects are solid globally. While...
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ThinkstockThe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) earned $982 billion in net oil export revenues in 2012 according to the latest report from the U.S. Energy Information...
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ThinkstockBy now, anyone paying any attention to gasoline prices has run into the term “blend wall,” which is the point at which mandated ethanol production matches or exceeds ethanol demand....
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ThinkstockPeabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The coal miner posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.33 on...
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ThinkstockFreeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The mining company reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of...
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ThinkstockValero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The oil refiner posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.85 on revenues of...
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ThinkstockWhen Barron’s ran “Gold Is Regaining Its Glow” over the weekend, they probably made the weekend over every concerned and disheartened gold bug in the world. After all, how can central...
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ThinkstockSunday’s New York Times story on the shenanigans played by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) at its aluminum warehouse in Detroit is nothing especially new. What is new is that the...
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