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Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) is trading marginally higher today on market chatter that BP plc (NYSE: BP) wants to acquire the company. We first noticed this in the trading for options volume in...
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Yesterday’s story about Venezuela opening the bidding for its oil resources raised an interesting question. What are the chances that Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), with nearly $40 billion in...
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Judged by the country’s performance in extracting hydrocarbons, Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has not been a smashing success. Ten years ago, when Chavez first came to power, the country...
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) already gave its severe earnings warning and we have already seen layoffs coming out of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB). [] and its dragging down share prices for the...
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Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) has sold about $412 million worth of royalty interests in "long-lived, producing assets" in gas fields in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The buyer was a private...
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On December 12th, the US Energy Information Agency reported that the cost of a barrel of crude in the US was $36.58/barrel. On December 22nd, conventional regular gasoline in the US sold for...
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Falling crude oil prices have hit Russia particularly hard. The country needs a crude price of about $70/b to cover production costs and to fund the government. So, what do they do when the price...
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:CHK) filed three documents with the SEC on Friday. One replaces a shelf registration that expires on December 5, the second authorizes the issuance of up to 50 million...
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One oilfield services giant, Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB), and one large oilfield services and well manufacturing company, National Oilwell Varco (NYSE:NOV), have announced plans to form a joint venture...
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If BP plc (NYSE:BP) plans to buy Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) as the rumor mill has suggested, it had better hurry up while there’s still something left. Early this morning, Chesapeake announced...
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BP plc (NYSE:BP) shares are up about 2.5% pre-open today on rumors that the British petroleum giant is considering making an offer for Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK). Chesapeake is the largest natural...
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This has been a very sketchy earnings season, and the crazy stock markets have offered very little help in being able to evaluate many companies. But despite the massive drop in oil prices from...
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According to Reuters, GM (GM) and Chrysler have asked the government for $10 billion to close their merger. Reuters reports that Boeing (BA) and its machinists have entered into a tentative labor...
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These are some of the top analyst pre-market upgrades we are seeing early this Monday morning: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Apache (APA) Raised to Outperform at...
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The latest theory about Big Oil is that it will be brought down by falling oil prices. Shares in companies such as Exxon (XOM) and BP (BP) will be battered beyond recognition. Until recently they...
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