Marathon Oil Coporation News

First-ever title sponsor, Marathon Oil Corporation, and the American Heart Association selection committee have announced the finalists for the annual Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards.

Marathon Oil Corp. , the fourth- largest U.S. energy producer, agreed to sell a 20 percent working interest in Block 32 off the coast of Angola to that countrya s state-owned oil company for $1.3 billion.

Marathon Oil Corporation today announced that following the exercise of a right of first refusal by Sociedad Nacional De Combustiveis De Angola, E.P., , SONANGOL's wholly owned subsidiary, Sociedad Pesquisa E Producao, S.A.R.L., has signed an agreement to purchase a 20 percent undivided working interest in Angola Block 32 from Marathon.

ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. are betting that Poland, which gets half of its natural gas from Russia, can yield a development boom in shale formations like those that drove a jump in U.S. output of the heating fuel.

As today's market news unfolds Rothman Research begun tracking the following companies Marathon Oil Corporation , SandRidge Energy Inc.

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On Monday, a Colorado-based exploration and production outfit named Ellora Energy announced that it has retained Bank of America to help shop the company around.

FINDLAY, Ohio -- Marathon Oil Corp. has shuffled its executive lineup with organizational changes within Marathon Petroleum Co.

The shale gas business model is about to make a transatlantic leap to both Europe and Africa, as U.S.-based companies are tapped for their expertise in this unconventional type of development.

Marathon Oil Corporation held its annual analyst meeting last week, and outlined its upstream strategy that the company will pursue over the next few years as it copes with a difficult macroeconomic outlook.

In its investor day meeting, integrated oil major Marathon Oil Corporation offered a glimpse of its 2010 production and capital spending plans.

Marathon Oil Corp. will cut its capital spending budget by nearly 17 percent in 2010 as it completes a costly refinery expansion in Louisiana and shifts its focus to oil and gas exploration and production projects around the globe.

Valero Energy on Friday said it's shutting down its refinery in Delaware City, Del., in a move that will eliminate 550 jobs.

Marathon Oil said Thursday it expects 2009 production growth of 6% over the year-ago period as the energy company joins others in ramping up efforts to find more oil and gas while ratcheting down investment in the moribund refining and marketing business.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the Big Board and the Naz.

Marathon Oil [S: mro] said Thursday it expects 2009 production growth of 6% over the year-ago period.

Marathon Oil Corp. made a "small oil discovery" in the North Sea, Norway's Petroleum Directorate said.

Marathon's history in Alaska is intertwined with the history of the Cook Inlet basin.

People may or may not learn from their own mistakes, but apparently, the idea that people learn from other folks' mistakes is a myth.

Energy stocks backed off Tuesday from the previous session's big gains on retreating oil prices and mild losses in the broad equities market.