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top storiesIndian firm hikes Lyondell bid to $14.5 billion Reliance Industries Ltd., owner of the world's largest oil-refining complex, raised its offer for bankrupt LyondellBasell Industries AF to about $14.5 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the offer. Schlumberger's merger could trigger Houston layoffs Schlumberger's $11 billion merger with Smith International should mean heavy cuts for a city where the firms have more than 8,000 workers. Schlumberger deal could put it into better domestic gas position Schlumberger's CEO says the proposed $11 billion merger with Smith International could bring new technologies and services to the challenge of extracting shale gas. Gasoline heading above $3 a gallon by this summer Retail gas prices likely bottomed out last week, and they're again headed to above $3 a gallon this summer, experts said.
BLOGS Newswatch: Energy with Tom FowlerEPA spells out carbon rules timeline EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued a letter Monday in response to one from eight U.S. senators asking about here agency's plans for 2010 regarding regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The effort was in part to ease concerns from those Democratic members...
Chron Energy Newslinks | 02.23.10 | Schlumberger deal and the jobs/shale equation; belief in the Bloom. Schlumberger deal, NASA changes add to city's job woes. Schlumberger/Smith could also mean a firmer foothold in shale gas projects. Demand for drilling, engineers may undercut Big Oil cost-cutting efforts. Oil traders go long for the...
Mayor Tillman does the Marcellus Calvin Tillman, the Mayor of Dish, Texas is a hero to some, a royal pain in the side to others. His small town smack in the middle of the Barnett Shale has been at the center of much dispute over...
Industry reps unfazed by hydraulic fracturing probe A new report from Greenwire says that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's investigation into hydraulic fracturing, a method used by natural gas drillers, isn't causing too much concern among energy industry folk. Greenwire cites one industry rep calling the...
India's Reliance ups bid for LyondellBassell to $14.5B News reports today say Indian company Reliance Industries has raised its bid for LyondellBasell Industries to $14.5 billion. The reports, from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, both cite people familiar with the matter. This is Reliance's third offer for...
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