Julianne Geiger

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• Oil Fears Mount As Rig Count Rises For A Third Straight Week

  Published 17 June 2016 | viewed 17,623 times

  The U.S. oil and gas rigs count is up today according to today’s Baker Hughes report, marking the third straight week of increases for the…

• California Wildfires Force Exxon Evacuation

  Published 16 June 2016 | viewed 3,648 times

  Exxon Mobil has evacuated the non-essential personnel from the Las Flores Canyon facility in Santa Barbara County in California due to a wildfire that has…

• Footage Surfaces Of Orlando Shooter Badmouthing BP Oil Spill Cleanup Team

  Published 16 June 2016 | viewed 5,692 times

  Video footage has surfaced from 2010 showing Orlando shooter Omar Mateen badmouthing cleanup crews in the Gulf of Mexico following BP’s catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil…

• Divestment Crusaders Hold Stanford Donations Hostage

  Published 14 June 2016 | viewed 8,059 times

  Stanford alumni interrupted an annual senior gift announcement at Stanford University on Friday afternoon, vowing to holdback donations to the university until it rids itself…

• Angola Could Face Niger-Delta-Style Oil Threat

  Published 14 June 2016 | viewed 8,184 times

  As oil-targeted militancy in Nigeria remerges to threaten the country’s entire industry and put significant amounts of oil offline, foreign operators in oil-rich Angola’s may…

• China’s Potential Oil Reserves Up 64%, Says Official Report

  Published 14 June 2016 | viewed 7,177 times

  China’s potential oil reserves are up 64 percent since 2007 due to increased exploration activities, according to a new report from the Chinese Land and…

• Marathon To Pay $334.6 Million Settlement for Refinery Pollution

  Published 09 June 2016 | viewed 6,650 times

  Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) will pay almost $335 million to settle a dispute over refinery pollution across five US states, in addition to a $326,500…

• Anti-Fracking Group Disrupts Colorado Governor’s Book Signing Event

  Published 09 June 2016 | viewed 3,949 times

  A Colorado anti-fracking group crashed Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s book event over his support of fracking in the state, ending in assault claims as well…

• Exelon To Shut Down 2 Nuclear Power Plants After $800M In Losses

  Published 02 June 2016 | viewed 9,732 times

  Chicago-based Exelon (NYSE: EXC) announced on Thursday that it will close two nuclear power plants in Illinois after being snubbed by state legislature over a…

• Gas Prices To Remain Low This Summer

  Published 31 May 2016 | viewed 9,681 times

  It’s easy for U.S. drivers to forget the high gas prices in recent years after the ultra-lows seen only months ago, but prices going into…

• Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Cannot Be Sold on Open Market, Says Kremlin

  Published 26 May 2016 | viewed 6,469 times

  Presidential aid Andrey Belousov said on Thursday that the Russian government could not sell its stake in Rosneft on the public market, according to Russian…

• 50-75 Percent of Alberta’s New Carbon Tax Will Be Passed onto Consumer

  Published 25 May 2016 | viewed 4,677 times

  Between 50 percent and 75 percent of Alberta’s new carbon tax will be passed onto the consumer, thanks to new legislation passed on Tuesday, but…

• Refinery Crisis Has French Oil Major Rethinking Investment Strategy

  Published 24 May 2016 | viewed 5,361 times

  French Total SA (NYSE: TOT) says it would reconsider its investment plans in France, according to CEO Patrick Pouyanne. Patrick Pouyanne, speaking outside the annual…

• Why The Arctic Oil Dream Is Not Over Yet

  Published 22 May 2016 | viewed 14,358 times

  The race to discover oil and gas in virgin Arctic waters is now on, as Norway offered oil majors a lifeline on Wednesday by opening…

• Oil Bust Spreads As 11 Texas Towns See Credit Downgraded

  Published 10 March 2016 | viewed 12,554 times

  Moody’s Investors Service placed 11 West Texas governments and municipalities under review for a potential downgrade last week. The review will consider downgrading the credit…

• Supreme Court Vacancy Leaves Energy Industry In Limbo

  Published 16 February 2016 | viewed 7,010 times

  The unexpected death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will likely prove to be a turning point in U.S. history, and no one will…

• In Spite Of Its Vast Oil Reserves, Cuba Fails To Woo Investors

  Published 12 February 2016 | viewed 26,441 times

  With the end of the 54-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and Cuban government moves to encourage foreign investors, Cuba is a suddenly attractive venue…

• ISIS Forced To Cut Wages As Oil Revenues Tank

  Published 10 February 2016 | viewed 22,358 times

  Leaked documents purport to show that the Islamic State (ISIS) is cutting the salaries of its foreign fighters as low oil prices and continued air…

• Anti-Russian Sentiment Pushes Lukoil Out Of Baltics

  Published 10 February 2016 | viewed 5,433 times

  Citing anti-Russian sentiment in Eastern Europe, Russian Lukoil is selling some 240 gas stations in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as it seeks to optimize its…

• Insurance Concerns Could Throw Wrench In Iranian Oil Exports

  Published 09 February 2016 | viewed 12,084 times

  Of all the things that could throttle Iranian oil exports--from geopolitics and high-level diplomatic game-playing to bloody conflict--at the end of the day, it’s seemingly…