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13 Oct 19 : 29 | Russian markets drop sharply in seesaw trading
(AP) AP - Russian stock benchmarks dropped sharply Monday on declining world oil prices and new struggles for control of the world’s largest nickel miner, prompting trading suspensions on the country’s two exchanges. Source : Steve Shickles 21 minutes ago |
12 Oct 19 : 17 | Iraq to begin first oil bid round in London
(AP) AP - Iraq’s oil minister will meet Monday in London with representatives of international oil companies for the first round of bidding for new contracts in the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the minister’s spokesman said. Source : Steve Shickles 25 hours ago |
11 Oct 07 : 10 | Libya cuts Swiss oil and economic ties in protest
(Reuters) Reuters - Libya said on Friday it would withdraw $7 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties with Switzerland and stop supplying it with oil to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen. Source : Steve Shickles |
11 Oct 04 : 10 | Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
(AP) AP - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class. Source : Steve Shickles |
11 Oct 01 : 09 | Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
(AP) AP - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class. Source : Steve Shickles |
07 Oct 12 : 42 | Nigerian conflict a warning for Big Oil in Iraq
(AP) AP - Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq a place that is much more dangerous despite the fact that attacks are at their lowest level in more than four years. Source : Steve Shickles |
29 Sept 21 : 16 | 7,500 Mexicans evacuate; flooding shuts oil wells
(AP) AP - Mexican officials have evacuated 7,500 people and are keeping oil wells shut in Veracruz due to severe flooding from heavy rains along Mexico’s Gulf coast. Source : Steve Shickles |
11 Oct 04 : 10 | Peru president accepts resignation of Cabinet
(AP) AP - President Alan Garcia accepted the resignation of his entire Cabinet on Friday without naming replacements in response to an oil kickbacks scandal. Source : Steve Shickles |
24 Sept 14 : 30 | Chavez sees 1 million-barrel oil exports to China
(AP) AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country’s oil exports to China could soar to 1 million barrels a day by 2012. Source : Steve Shickles |
10 Oct 13 : 05 | Libya to cut Swiss economic ties in protest
(Reuters) Reuters - Libya will withdraw $7 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties with Switzerland and stop supplying it with oil to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen, Libyan news agency JANA said. Source : Steve Shickles |
21 Sept 11 : 10 | Nigerian armed group declares ceasefire in 'oil war'
(AFP) AFP - The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria, MEND, declared a ceasefire on Sunday following a week of attacks on oil industry targets after launching an “oil war”. Source : Steve Shickles |
20 Sept 11 : 02 | Nigerian militants step up 'oil war' claiming sixth attack
(AFP) AFP - Nigeria’s main armed militant group Saturday said it had destroyed a major pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the sixth such attack in the past week as it vowed to paralyse the key oil sector. Source : Steve Shickles |
17 Sept 04 : 44 | Nigerian militants claim oil installation attack
(AP) AP - Fighters from Nigeria’s main militant group attacked an oil installation, the latest clash in a surge of violence in country’s southern petroleum-producing region, the group said Wednesday. Source : Steve Shickles |
09 Oct 09 : 53 | Mexico unveils emergency spending to combat crisis
(AP) AP - President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday unveiled plans for 53 billion pesos ($4.4 billion) in emergency spending on roads, schools, hospitals and an oil refinery next year to help Mexico combat the world financial crisis. Source : Steve Shickles |
08 Oct 06 : 45 | Tropical Storm Marco hits Mexico's Gulf coast
(AP) AP - Tropical Storm Marco roared ashore on Mexico’s Gulf coast with near-hurricane force winds on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of some oil platforms and forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 people. Source : Steve Shickles |
07 Oct 21 : 43 | Tropical Storm Marco hits Mexico's Gulf coast
(AP) AP - Tropical Storm Marco roared ashore on Mexico’s Gulf coast with near-hurricane force winds on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of some oil platforms. Source : Steve Shickles |
20 Sept 14 : 02 | Shell extends force majeure at Nigerian terminal
(AFP) AFP - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell Saturday said it had declared force majeure on Nigerian light crude oil exports from its Bonny terminal after a slew of attacks on its pipelines. Source : Steve Shickles |
16 Sept 01 : 38 | Nigeria militants to release South African hostages
(Reuters) Reuters - Nigeria’s most prominent militant group said on Monday it would release two South African oil workers kidnapped last week in the restive Niger Delta. Source : Steve Shickles |
15 Sept 07 : 25 | Militants says clashes with Nigerian army mean war
(AP) AP - Gunmen battled government forces Monday in a third day of violence to hit Nigeria’s southern oil region after the main militant group declared a state of war and raised the specter of a stepped-up conflict. Source : Steve Shickles |
