A threat by a rebel group in Nigeria to escalate attacks on the nation's crude oil infrastructure helped boost oil prices ... The world's largest oil company is fighting Venezuela's nationalization of an oil project, and recently convinced several ...

Exxon Mobil is locked in a dispute over the nationalization of its oil ventures in Venezuela that has led President Hugo Chavez to threaten to cut off all Venezuelan oil supplies to the United States ... Exxon Mobil is challenging the Chavez ...

Exxon Mobil is locked in a dispute over the nationalization of its oil ventures in Venezuela that has led President Hugo Chavez to threaten to cut off all Venezuelan oil supplies to the United States ... Exxon Mobil is challenging the Chavez ...

Also, a strengthening dollar lessens the need to use crude oil and other hard commodities as hedges against inflation ... Brent crude futures fell 53 cents to ...

Surging economies in China and India fed by oil and gasoline have sent prices soaring over the past year, while tensions in oil-producing nations like Nigeria and Iran have increasingly made investors nervous and invited speculators to drive prices ...

crude oil imports in November, the latest figures available from the U. ...

crude oil imports in November, the latest figures from the U ... 's fourth-biggest oil ...

  The major problem with the NAFTA agreement is the cost of crude oil.   The two top suppliers of crude oil to the ...

There's always lag between wholesale and retail," said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N ... "This is a little bit of a false start to a rally that has more to do with oil and not as much with ...

company in a fight over Exxon's demand for compensation after Chavez seized a crude oil project last year ... And the head of the International Energy Agency, which coordinates the release of global crude oil and refined product stockpiles in the ...

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By John Wilen NEW YORK - Crude oil prices briefly soared to $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will outstrip supplies. Surging ...

- Gregory Richards oil venezuela cuts off exxon mobil CARACAS, Venezuela | Venezuela's state oil company said Tuesday that it has stopped selling crude to Exxon Mobil Corp ... " President Hugo Chavez has shaken oil markets ...

Crude futures offer a hedge against a falling dollar, and oil futures bought and sold in dollars are more attractive to foreign investors when the dollar is falling ... Concerns about a possible conflict between oil producers Venezuela and ...

28--With crude oil prices within $2 a barrel of the all-time record and gasoline futures Thursday setting new highs for the year, this coming spring could see national retail gas prices spike to $3 ... Futures contracts for crude oil and ...