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A group of oil majors and other companies operating in Norway have filed a group complaint to Norway's oil ministry about the dominance of Norwegian incumbent StatoilHydro over gas pipeline plans.

A spokesman for the Sindipetro-NF union, which represents striking Campos Basin platform workers, said union officials will suggest workers reject Petrobras' latest proposal in a vote scheduled for Friday.

Oilfield-services demand will grow internationally through 2009 and revenue will top 20% by that time, according to Schlumberger's Chief Executive.

Crude oil prices rebounded Friday in New York to about $131 a barrel following a week of record falls.

"We have extended his visa ... for 10 days" until July 29, a spokeswoman for Russia's federal migration service in Moscow told Agence France-Presse, referring to TNK-BP chief executive Robert Dudley, a U.S. citizen.

U.S. oil demand was significantly down for the first six months of 2008. Deliveries of all oil products, a measure of demand, fell 3.0 percent compared with the same first-half-year period in 2007, with gasoline deliveries slipping 1.7 percent.

Two metro Denver, woman-owned engineering firms — Scanlon Consulting Services Inc. of Littleton and The Szynskie Group Inc. of Aurora — have merged.

Shares of Bridge Capital Holdings fell about 7 percent Friday after the parent company of Bridge Bank reported a 46 percent drop in net earnings and a large increase in non-performing loans. (BBNK)

Microvision Inc., which makes high-resolution displays, said it has priced a public offering of about 11.2 million shares of its stock at $2.33 per share, which it said should raise about $26 million. (MVIS)

Eagle Bancorp., awaiting approval of its acquisition of Fidelity & Trust Financial Corp., had flat earnings last quarter and set aside more money for bad loans, even as loan activity and deposits continued to grow. (EGBN)