Some of the biggest losers on the day are Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR).
If a foreign oil major (or even two) takes the same view, then the business climate has clearly improved.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin left his prestigious chairman post at oil major Rosneft on April 11.
On August 18, 2009, opinion writers for the Wall Street Journal incited a mini-riot against Brazilian oil major Petrobras.
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Brazilian oil major Petrobras has been the ugly cousin of the global, publicly traded oil stocks since late last year.
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It claimed the oil major and four other companies had violated environmental laws in the largest oil spill in US history.
Oil major Petrobras (PBR) was up 1.17% compared to Chevron (CVX) and ExxonMobil (XOM), both up by less than a quarter percent.
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Obama has come under harsh criticism over the last several weeks for a decision to lend to Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR).
Chevron Australia, the local arm the U.S. oil major, Chevron Corporation.
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Barclays Capital reiterated its overweight on Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) on Thursday even as the stock declined by more than 6% in intraday trade.
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Sechin is chairman of the board of Russian oil major Rosneft.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras is down more than 6% in the last five days, taking a chunk out of its gains over the last two months.
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So while oil major Petrobras accounts for 13% of the Bovespa index, and therefore the iShares Brazil ETF, it accounts for just 9.4% in the mutual fund.
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Unlike its other Shah Deniz II partners, the British oil major has made it a personal mission to get the best possible terms they can from any upstream developments.
The Market Vectors Russia ETF ( RSX) gives investors access to four firms that are not traded on US markets: state-run oil major Rosneft, VTB Bank, Novatek and NLMK Steel.
ConocoPhillips China, the subsidiary of the Houston based oil major (COP), said there was yet another leak at one of its oil wells in Bohai Bay, Shanghai Daily reported the company as saying Saturday.
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Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) said in a press release late Thursday that it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil in deep water Gulf of Mexico at the Keathley Canyon bloc it runs together with ExxonMobil (XOM) and Italian oil firm Eni.
According to stock forecasters at ValuEngine.com, these equities are priced to perfection, including major names like Brazilian beer giant Ambev (ABV), on the list as a strong buy for the first time in the last four weeks, and Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) is back on it again.
Just about every major oil services company and at least one major integrated oil company have been swept up in an ongoing U.S. government investigation Swiss freight-forwarding company Panalpina World Transport Holding.
Since the nineteen-seventies, and the construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, major oil producers had enjoyed extraordinary influence over Alaskan lawmakers, and had pretty much dictated the terms on which they did business with the state.
Perry has said that the U.S. needs more pipelines to transport oil to major refineries.
The company is one of the few publicly traded national oil majors that is sitting on major oil fields.
The poll indicates that about two-thirds of Americans think U.S. oil companies and foreign countries that produce oil are major causes of higher gas prices.
Not only is he very comfortable with chief executive Cindy Taylor and her management team, but he also sees great value both of Oil States major businesses.
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Shareholders have watched as Jim Bob pursued with his small company and its limited resources, a play so potentially huge that it would test the fortitude of an oil rich major like Chevron.
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As a net oil exporter, Canada is severely hurt by declines in oil, while Japan, a major net oil importer, tends to benefit.
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Finding and producing enough oil and gas to replace the oil and gas sold every year is a difficult task for all of the major oil companies.
I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
Oil prices play a major role in global economic growth because oil is crucial to every part of the economy.
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