BloombergJPMorgan Facing Shareholder Backlash Over Oil Sands FinancingBloombergThe shareholders said that they are not requesting a company policy to limit or ban oil-sands financing, only an assessment of the oil-sands work -- both on its merits and relat …

Financial TimesOil hits $70 a barrel on Iran export concernsFinancial TimesBrent crude was poised for its fourth consecutive weekly gain, hitting $70 a barrel on Friday, as heightened geopolitical tensions coincided with signs that global producers would c …

BloombergSome Oil Refineries Are Getting a License to Print MoneyBloombergMore than 80 percent of U.S. Gulf Coast refineries have coking units that can create transport fuels from the residual fuel oil from heavy crude, according to research from Morningst …

ReutersOil majors give in to investors with share buyback spreeReutersThe payouts come courtesy of a combination of higher and more stable oil prices and pressure from investors. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) CLc1 has more than doubled, crossing $60 p …

Penn State NewsIndustrial engineering senior awarded S. Balachandran Service ScholarshipPenn State NewsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Emily Leight, a senior studying industrial engineering, has been awarded the S. Balachandran Service Scholarship through Alpha Pi …

ExecutiveBiz (blog)CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang CommentsExecutiveBiz (blog)The company said Tuesday the Next-Generation IT Services engineering BPA covers unified communications and collaboration, enterprise …

Local group wins national engineering awardState-Journal.comThe Frankfort-based team of HMB Professional Engineers, Inc., Parsons Transportation Group and Beam Longest & Neff has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement …

ReutersBP profits surge as oil major leaves downturn behindReutersBP would generate profits in 2018 at an oil price of $50 a barrel, Chief Financial Officer Brian Gilvary told Reuters, as years of spending cuts kicked in and as it slowly shakes off a $65 b …

Financial TimesBP profits quadruple on higher oil prices and new projectsFinancial TimesBP's fourth-quarter earnings more than quadrupled from last year as the UK oil and gas group benefited from higher crude prices and a surge in production from new p …

Nikkei Asian ReviewChina chases oil benchmark to knock US off global perchNikkei Asian ReviewSimply put, the government is determined to turn the INE's crude oil futures into a global benchmark, and to do so it needs to get large numbers of traders inv …