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Energy stocks rose despite bearish natural gas inventory data on Thursday, as investors kept an eye on gains in the broad market during the holiday-shortened session.

Point Roberts, WA - Chartpoppers.com announces an investment report featuring company Exxon Mobile Corp.

Phoebe A. Wood, former vice chairman and CFO of Brown-Forman Corp. , has been elected to the board of trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind .

A federal jury in Texas on Friday ordered BP Plc to pay $100 million to 10 workers who were sickened by a 2007 chemical release at its Texas City refinery.

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The second of the postwar bidding contests to determine which of the members of the world's major oil companies would land the rights to work on Iraq's giant oilfields was completed last weekend.

Oil majors such as BP plc , Royal Dutch Shell plc or Chevron Corp. may make a natural gas play in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp.

BP earned a profit attributable to shareholders $1.69 per ADR in the third quarter of 2009, which ended 30 September.

Friday will bring with it yet another fight in Iraq, but this one won't involve the military.

The exploration and development of the Iraqi oil fields has large implications for the bull case in energy investing, as the current government has established a multi-year program to boost its output over the next six years.

Nearly a year ago, as we bid adieu to 2008, we might have expected the members of Big Oil to take off on a shopping spree.

Powerful chief executives who are left unchallenged are a major source of risk and should be removed, says Walker report Just as Royal Bank of Scotland was hitting the rocks last year, the bank's then chairman, Sir Tom McKillop, angrily insisted there were "no patsies" on the board.

Vivienne Cox, former CEO of BP's alternative energy division, has been appointed chairman of Climate Change Capital, the clean energy fund said on Tuesday.

Devon Energy announced a surprising plan to sell off its international and offshore Gulf of Mexico exploration and production assets and focus exclusively on its North American onshore operations.

Kent Moors on the future of energy . Dr. Moors last wrote about Marcellus Gas Shale , a new energy-sector profit play .] A new fuel technology unveiled just two weeks ago is about to revolutionize the energy business.

Verenium Corp. common stock has suffered since the biofuel developer offered 2.25 million additional shares on Oct.

Evolution Solar Corp. today announced that the Company has been introduced to a number of solar project opportunities in Bermuda and the Caribbean through its recently announced relationship with Saul Ewing, LLP.

SmallCapSentinel.com announces the release of a profile of emerging Oil and Gas company Royal Lux Energy of interest to investors of oil and gas leaders Chevron , ExxonMobil , Conoco Phillips , and BP plc .

Energy stocks rose Monday as the sector moved in lock-step with the rising broad market on hopes for a brighter economy, while Ida was downgraded to tropical storm status as it moved closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Ida roared intoA the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields areA located, after killing 91 people and leaving at least anotherA 60 missing in floods and mudslides in El Salvador.