New York s HESS CORP. (HES, 59) is a solid second-tier integrated oil-and-gas firm with scores of gas stations across the eastern U.S. It s got 1.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent reserves (versus 17.2 billion at Exxon).
Oil and gas firm Dana Petroleum has reported "strong results" from a gas appraisal well in the southern North Sea.
Bois d'Arc's reserve life is 14 years, though, double that of the typical Gulf oil-and-gas firm.
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has described 2011 as a "truly exceptional year of success".
Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm John Wood Group has unveiled a 43% increase in pre-tax profits for 2012.
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has bowed to pressure from shareholders and shelved a proposed new management bonus scheme.
But only Petronas, a Malaysian oil and gas firm, also appears in the Fortune 500 list of top international firms.
It will now work with carbon capture provider, Doosan Power Systems, Fluor, an engineering and construction company, and oil and gas firm Petrofac.
Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum has cut its losses and has increased the amount of oil it expects to produce this year.
Shares in Faroe Petroleum fell sharply on news that the oil and gas firm is to relinquish its licence for a field to the west of Shetland.
On the other hand, CNOOC, a state backed oil and gas firm, has signed deals with Chesapeake Energy to develop shale projects at the Eagle Ford shale.
Tom L. Ward co-founded Chesapeake Energy in 1989, building it into the second largest natural gas firm in the country then leaving it in 2006 to spend more time with his family.
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As a result, the number of shipments arriving at an American terminal belonging to BG, a big gas firm, fell from 48 in the second quarter of the year to one in the fourth.
Marathon Oil ( MRO - news - people )(28, MRO) is the U.S.' fourth-largest integrated oil and gas firm (one, that is, combining production with refining) and the fifth-largest refiner, with a million barrels per day of capacity.
Shell also controls Tejas, an American gas-pipeline firm, and Coral, which is the fifth-largest gas marketer in North America.
Oil and gas services firm Hydrasun has been sold to a Bahrain-based investment manager.
The firm also owns 21 gas processing plants that separate propane and ethane from raw natural gas.
There are concerns in India over the company's links to the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984.
What this all means is that there is an incredible amount of excess drilling capacity in the system, waiting to come on line should the natural gas price firm up for any prolonged period of time.
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Halliburton reported a strong quarter to beat analyst estimates with earnings of 53 cents per share, and even though costs associated with the BP Gulf oil spill could have an impact in the future the oil and gas services firm saw its shares up 3.5%.
Last year Camuzzi, an Italian gas-distribution firm, raised euro200m via a syndicate of investment banks.
At the other end of the spectrum: Peter Cartwright of Calpine, a firm that develops and runs gas-fired power plants.
It's a noble effort, with 539 signatories to date, but it has no teeth: no firm deadline for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions and no penalty for not doing so.
Since electricity supply was privatised in the 1990s, there have been persistent complaints that suppliers have employed salesmen who set out to trick customers on their doorsteps into switching from their existing gas or electricity firm.
Moscow's flexing of its muscles in the energy sector - which saw state-owned firm Gazprom temporarily cut off gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine - as well as new rules for the foreign ownership of Russian companies and export tax rises, all have implications for BP.
The firm gave advice on oil and gas partnerships designed to grant tax credits.
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The company behind the development is Celtic Array, formed by Centrica - which owns British Gas - and Danish firm Dong Energy.
In Burlington, ConocoPhillips is buying a firm that gets some of its gas from unusual sources, such as pockets trapped in underground rock formations.
One of the companies behind some of the developments is Celtic Array, formed by Centrica - which owns British Gas - and Danish firm Dong Energy.
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