Conoco Phillips

NYSE: COP
$109.87
-$0.68 (-0.6%)
Closing Price on September 20, 2024

COP Articles

The government of Norway has ended a 16-day strike against offshore oil and gas producers and killed the threat of an industry lockout that was set to begin at midnight last night. The labor minister...
An association representing oil companies working on Norway’s continental shelf is preparing for a lockout against striking workers beginning at midnight tonight. If the lockout is enforced, about...
The oldest refinery on the US East Coast will not be closing in August. The refinery’s owner, Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) today announced that it would form a joint venture with The Carlyle Group...
At a meeting in New York this morning, Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) CEO Rex Tillerson said that his company is “losing our shirts” on natural gas production. Did he just notice that prices have...
Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) announced this morning that the new independent, non-executive chairman of the company’s board of directors will be Archie W. Dunham, former chairman and CEO of...
The US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday held a lease sale for 39 million acres of US outer continental shelf open for development. The total of all bids...
Maybe you want to blame the rising dollar or maybe you want to blame continued slow weakness along with a building inventory report.  Oil is now within striking distance of the $80 per barrel mark...
The three major US stock indexes opened slightly lower this morning as markets waited patiently for an afternoon announcement from the FOMC. When the word finally came that Operation Twist would...
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Underperform at JMP...
It has been almost exactly two years since Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) completed its $31 billion merger with XTO Energy to create the largest natural gas company in the US. Exxon’s shares traded...
In December 2011, before the spin-off of Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) from ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Conoco was believed to be trying to sell its 247,000 barrel/day Belle Chase, Louisiana, refinery for...
As oil went from $105 to under $85 in just over a month, you can imagine that the drop was not too good for Big Oil.  In fact, the news was pretty dismal and shareholders better be glad that Exxon...
The current drop in crude oil prices is putting a little more cash in the pockets of consumers at the expense of the big integrated oil and refining companies. The reason is fairly simple: there is...
Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) is not exactly a household name in the oil sector… It is also hard to get excited about such a small-cap name when you consider the other larger...
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Ariba Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA) Cut to Sell at Argus. The Chefs’ Warehouse...