Oil companies evacuate workers as storm takes aim at TexasReutersHOUSTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell, Anadarko Petroleum and Exxon Mobil announced they were curbing some oil and gas output on Wednesday at facilities in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of a storm …

Barclays: Sell Apache On Flat Oil Production OutlookBarron's (blog)Analyst Thomas Driscoll lowered his rating on Apache to Underweight from Equal Weight, and lowered his price target by $6, to $50. He writes that the downgrade reflects sharp oil production …

RudawOil flows resume from Iraq's Kirkuk fields after Kurdish forces storm facilityReutersBAGHDAD Crude flows from Iraq's northern Kirkuk fields resumed on Thursday after being halted for several hours when Kurdish forces stormed a facility in prot …

ReutersSubsidy-reliant offshore wind steals skills, ideas from Big OilReutersBut the DanTysk facility is the world's first accommodation platform for offshore wind, which is borrowing techniques and labor from the crisis-hit oil sector as it tries to c …