Where Is the Price of Oil Headed?Barron'sExxonMobil and Chevron lost money in their U.S. E&P businesses for the first time since at least 1990. Today, profit per barrel of oil is negative $2 versus an average of $15 over the past 15 years. That gap sho …

Reverse Oil Shock: Part 3 – Feeding Financial InstabilityEconoMonitor (blog)Financial markets have generally assumed lower oil prices are positive for asset prices, resulting from the positive effect on growth and lower inflation which extends the period o …

NBCNews.comFires Finally Dwindling Days After Illinois Oil Train DerailmentNBCNews.comFirefighters were still working Sunday to extinguish the last of a series of fires that erupted when a BNSF Railway train loaded with crude oil derailed two days ago in a …

Barclays' Mahesh Says Election a 'Huge Risk' for Nigeria OilBloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc energy analyst Miswin Mahesh sees a “huge risk” of oil production in Nigeria being disrupted by political instability arising from elections schedu …

Wall Street JournalWrecks Hit Tougher Oil RailcarsWall Street JournalIn a string of recent oil train derailments in the U.S. and Canada, new and sturdier railroad tanker cars being built to carry a rising tide of crude oil across the continent have failed …

旭化成、米ポリポアを22億ドルで買収ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版TO）は23日、米ポリポアを22億ドル（約2600億円）で買収すると発表した。 ポリポアはこの取引に先立ち、事業の柱の1つである分離膜事業を10億ドルで米複合企業スリーエム（3M）へ売却することでも合意した。このため旭化成が買収するのは、もう1つの柱であるエネルギー ...and more » Read more http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2 …