Crude prices surged Thursday to a new trading record near $146 a barrel as the summer maintenance season for the North Sea oil fields begins to squeeze European supplies.
It is a sign of the times that the craziest thing I have seen this week was not Daryl Hannah licking surplus fuel off the petrol cap (or whatever she would call it) of her 60s-era Chevrolet El Camino.
Hail the size of pingpong balls damaged some 30,000 new vehicles at a Volkswagen plant in northern Germany, a company spokesman said Friday.
Oil eased in Asia on Tuesday after hitting a record of nearly $140 a barrel the previous volatile session, but traders said prices may climb again amid persistent supply concerns and strong demand.
The U.S. has huge amounts of untapped oil, but pesky politicians and environmentalists won't let us get it.
With $120 oil not seeming to follow the fundamental law of supply and demand many are wondering if the market is broken.
You can't keep Big Oil down: Europe's largest oil companies delivered record profits for the first quarter of 2008
Oil and gasoline prices continue to soar Monday as worker strikes, political turmoil, and speculation of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve rocked a market that does not need much of an excuse to trade higher.
The Orkney Islands, where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean violently meet, last gained fame in 1725 when the pirate ship Revenge was captured there.
An earthquake shook Britain early Wednesday, causing damage to buildings and leaving at least one person injured.
Crude prices surged Thursday to a new trading record near $146 a barrel as the summer maintenance season for the North Sea oil fields begins to squeeze European supplies.
It is a sign of the times that the craziest thing I have seen this week was not Daryl Hannah licking surplus fuel off the petrol cap (or whatever she would call it) of her 60s-era Chevrolet El Camino.
Hail the size of pingpong balls damaged some 30,000 new vehicles at a Volkswagen plant in northern Germany, a company spokesman said Friday.
Oil eased in Asia on Tuesday after hitting a record of nearly $140 a barrel the previous volatile session, but traders said prices may climb again amid persistent supply concerns and strong demand.
The U.S. has huge amounts of untapped oil, but pesky politicians and environmentalists won't let us get it.
With $120 oil not seeming to follow the fundamental law of supply and demand many are wondering if the market is broken.
You can't keep Big Oil down: Europe's largest oil companies delivered record profits for the first quarter of 2008
Oil and gasoline prices continue to soar Monday as worker strikes, political turmoil, and speculation of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve rocked a market that does not need much of an excuse to trade higher.
The Orkney Islands, where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean violently meet, last gained fame in 1725 when the pirate ship Revenge was captured there.
An earthquake shook Britain early Wednesday, causing damage to buildings and leaving at least one person injured.
An apparent false alarm early Sunday triggered a massive air-sea rescue operation to evacuate over 500 workers from an oil rig in the North Sea, police and the British coast guard said.
The European Commission has suggested there should be a cut in catches for most waters. Yet the survival of stocks comes in conflict with sustaining the livelihoods of Europe's fishermen
Oil prices rose more than $4 Wednesday after the government reported a surprise decline in crude oil and heating fuel supplies.
Anne Darwin, the wife of a British man who reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned, appeared in court Tuesday on deception charges totaling more than £160,000 ($320,000).
In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target
John Darwin was presumed drowned and declared legally dead in 2003. His re-emergence has raised many questions
Less than three hours after it began, a fire on a North Sea oil platform was extinguished and no one was hurt, Lund in Petroleum said Sunday.
The virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm
Britain's Environment Agency reduced the number of flood warnings for eastern England Friday morning and declared the worst was over after a storm surge, which had been forecast to cause heavy flooding, peaked at lower-than-expected levels.
Oil's push toward the $100-a-barrel mark and a huge quarterly loss by General Motors set a negative tone going into the start of Wednesday's U.S. stock trading.
An auction house in England plans to sell board games that German children played during World War II, winning points by destroying British cities and ships.
Despite oil's record high last week, forget about crude going to $100 a barrel.
Oil fell Monday as traders took profits after supply concerns sent prices above $77 a barrel last week and near record highs.
Oil jumped back to $77 a barrel Friday as investors focused on tightening fuel supplies and brushed off worries about corporate borrowing costs and the U.S. economy that roiled stock markets.
One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says
Crude turned down Thursday morning after a brief rally on continued refinery and production troubles amid a persistently bullish climate.
Oil retreated below $75 a barrel Tuesday, after setting fresh 11-month highs fueled by supply concerns and a wave of speculative buying.
Oil rose above $74 a barrel on Monday, driven towards an all-time high by an influx of speculative fund money and tightening crude supplies from the North Sea.
Oil rose Friday on speculative buying as North Sea production problems and forecasts for rising demand tightened the supply outlook.
Oil prices slid Monday despite rising global demand and North Sea field maintenance, which exacerbated supply worries.
Crude gained $1.00 Friday to settle at $72.81, the highest settlement since Aug. 22, 2006, as Nigerian disruptions and OPEC output cuts stirred supply concerns amid rising U.S. refiner demand.
ConocoPhillips expects second-quarter oil and gas production fell from first-quarter levels due to scheduled maintenance in the North Sea, exiting from operations in Dubai, asset sales and seasonal dips in Alaska, the company said on Tuesday.
Global warming is taking a toll on fish -- and helping jellyfish rule the sea.
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At the end of August 2005 Hurricane Katrina swept up through the Gulf of Mexico battering the coastline of the southern United States.
Nothing says hot like an Arctic bidding war.
Ernesto was downgraded Monday and looks as though it's headed away from the most vulnerable part of the Gulf Coast. The price of oil pulled back almost $2 a barrel as a result.
With oil prices hovering near record levels, you would think energy investors would be all smiles. But shareholders of oil and gas producer Apache, one of the stocks we recommended from our 100 Fas...
What's going on with Mrs. Market? (Yes, a SHE!) We get close to the Dow record, then we get scared off. Makes sense to me actually ... too much inflation for my taste.
Experts say the whale which got stranded in the Thames in London died from a combination of factors including severe dehydration.
The whale that rescuers were carrying out to sea from the River Thames died Saturday, according to the London Port Authority.
Often referred to as the "St. Tropez of Germany," and best known as a getaway for affluent northern Germans, Sylt is a rare gem most of Europe's holiday makers never discover.
One of the most promising areas of oil exploration involves a staggeringly simple insight: There are still hundreds of billions of barrels of oil stranded in existing reservoirs.
To understand how advances in computing technology are affecting the petroleum industry, look no further than the Pod. Designed by Landmark Graphics, a unit of Halliburton that specializes in developing software for oil companies, the Pod is an Imax-style viewing room powered by a supercomputer.
Flat, surrounded by water, and like New Orleans, largely below sea level, Holland lives with the threat of flooding from the North Sea.
Wind power could generate more than enough sustainable electricity to meet global energy needs, according to new research.
Carbon dioxide could be buried underground as a means of combating climate change, scientists have suggested.
She was the embodiment of pre-war glamour, a photogenic British princess with a sharp eye for contemporary fashion who became a much-loved queen across the North Sea.
It's alarming when a guy like Matthew Simmons starts worrying about the oil supply. He's chairman of Simmons & Co., a Houston investment bank which, for the past 35 years, has done deals in the oil...
A fierce winter storm packing hurricane force winds that swept across northern Europe has left at least 13 dead several missing, officials said Sunday.
Oil prices settled above $53 a barrel Friday, closing at a record high for the fourth straight session, as labor strife in Nigeria and Norway rekindled supply worries.
U.S. stocks headed toward a lower opening Wednesday amid continuing concern about a strike in No. 3 oil exporter Norway, but the return of flows through a damaged Iraqi pipeline tempered the fears of a shortage.
The economy is growing fast enough to spark new hiring, and recent data show an uptick in inflation. Investors have started to worry that interest rates will rise and make the stock market stall. M...
With oil hovering near record prices and OPEC saying it's out of their control, the question of whether the planet is nearing the end of its oil supply has again arisen.
The economy is growing fast enough to spark new hiring, and recent data show an uptick in inflation.
Two German Air Force pilots have been killed in a mid-air collision between two fighter jets over northern Germany, according to a military spokesman.
Over the past couple of years a surprising trait has emerged among the oil giants: Some of their most outstanding employees are actually environmentalists. Or at least you'd think so from their adv...
Winston Churchill once rejected an unappetizing dessert by declaring, "This pudding has no theme." You could say the same thing about today's stock market. Given all the uncertainties, it's impossi...
The Middle Eastern countries under which most of the world's oil is buried are positively seething with discontent. Crude prices are near their highest levels in a decade. House and Senate negotiat...
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Only a floor separates the Boston offices of Jeff Vinik, head of the $53 billion Fidelity Magellan fund, and Brian Posner, who manages $11 billion for Fidelity's Equity-Income II fund. But that flo...
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Norway said it would consider curtailing its North Sea oil production if OPEC can agree on its own production curbs. Britain, whose lead Norway has traditionally followed in oil policy, said it rem...
Only bullheaded contrariness or folly, it might seem, could prompt an investor to put money in oil stocks these days. The average price refiners pay for crude has fallen by a third since last Novem...
- The free fall in oil prices continued to bring anguish to people in the business and joy to just about everybody else. London's spot market for North Sea oil screeched to a halt when several trad...
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