oil companies

Airlines are readying their return to Libya, ports largely shuttered during the fighting are receiving cargos and foreign oil companies that had fled the country's civil war are making tentative steps back.

A new oil sheen was spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, although energy company BP said Thursday the discovery had nothing to do with its operations and was far from the site of its disaster-hit Macondo well.

When oil companies expand into desert areas of Africa , FrontierMedEx Group helps them navigate the territory and provides medical care and security.

Safety and environmental fears made the United States wary, but oil companies are eager to follow Russia in.

Oil companies are set to report healthy profits for 2010. That could mean richer rewards for shareholders, and perhaps more indignation at the gas pump.

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands.

Registering there allowed the rig’s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.

Telling oil companies that you’re not going to take it anymore requires a change in lifestyle.

The announcement reaffirms the area’s importance to Western oil companies who are increasingly barred from investing in the world’s richest oil prospects.

Chevron, like other oil companies, was hurt by plunging demand for crude oil and gasoline . It also said its net income suffered from a weak dollar.

Ten people have been arrested in the theft of about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate from oil companies and producers in West Texas.