Bloomberg | Big Oil Leaves Analysts Fuming About Being in the Dark on Refinery Outages Bloomberg Refining, a key stabilizing element of Big Oil's business model, is usually a world away from the deal-making, high-stakes exploration and big-spending world of upstream production. Downtime for maintenance is a necessity but usually scheduled. When it ... Big Oil Profits Fall Short of Crude-Price Rally Exxon is missing out on the oil boom Exxon Mobil disappoints Wall Street again as refinery issues weigh on quarterly profits |