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The French oil multinational will be prosecuted along with four other companies for the blast that has already landed it with a compensation bill of up to £700m

A federal jury on Monday cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago.

The World Bank’s vice president for the Africa region, Obiageli Ezekwesili, knows her name is so complicated most people won’t even attempt to pronounce it.

Shell and Anglo American have become the latest natural resources companies to shelve a clean energy scheme

New York (Platts) -- 2Dec2008 -- Flat-rolled steel prices in the US market declined across the board Tuesday as some limited buying activity resumed after the extended Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. The Platts reference price of hot-rolled...

An executive said low profit margins have hurt the refining sector, but declined to say which refineries might be on the block.

Robert Dudley resigned as chief executive officer of TNK-BP, the Russian venture of BP, after two groups of shareholders agreed to remove him to end a dispute over management at Russia’s third-largest oil company.

An economist says the decline is likely to continue, directly affecting state revenues from energy companies.

The chairman of West Australian Newspapers Holdings, Peter Mansell, has resigned as part of board changes announced today. Mr Mansell, Jenny Seabrook and Mel Ward have all stepped down, the company t...

French oil and gas group thrashing out details of a possible bid worth up to C$20bn for mid-sized Canadian