Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — In southeast Texas, in the heart of oil and gas country, is Jefferson County, consistently one of the counties with the most industrial project activity in the U.S. Currently, the county is hosting 155 active industrial projects totaling $10.3 billion. Eighty of these projects, totaling $4.4 [...]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–3 local Hispanic high school seniors have been honored for their achievements in engineering and mathematics by Exxon Mobil and the Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation.
Award recipients Rocio Garay from Anderson High School, Arturo Lopez attending West Leyden High School, and Christian Pereda of Elgin High School were recognized as the 2009 Gold, Silver and [...]

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
The following table lists unplanned and planned production outages at U.S. refineries as reported by Dow Jones Newswires. The information is compiled from both official and unofficial refining sources and doesn’t purport to be a comprehensive list.
ExxonMobil (XOM) shut a CO Boiler at key gasoline-making FCCU No. 3 at its Baytown, [...]

By Sheila McNulty
The plan by ConocoPhillips, the US’s third largest oil company, to lay off 4 per cent of its global workforce and scale back capital spending this year to $12.5bn, from $15.3bn in 2008, underlines the slowdown taking hold of the oil industry.
ConocoPhillips was the first of the US majors to announce lay-offs, totalling [...]

ExxonMobil announced that its affiliate, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V., has signed an agreement with Turkish national oil company, Turkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklýgý (TPAO), to explore in two large deepwater blocks offshore Turkey, marking ExxonMobil’s entry into Black Sea exploration.
ExxonMobil will become operator during the initial exploration phase and earn a 50 percent interest [...]

by John Kolodziejski Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday, November 18, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones Newswires), November 18, 2008
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has postponed construction tenders for 28 deep-sea drilling rigs to 2009, the Estado News Agency reported Tuesday.
The rigs were to be [...]

IRVING, Texas, Nov 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today its affiliate, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V., has signed an agreement with Turkish national oil company, TA 1/4rkiye Petrolleri Anonim OrtaklAAYA (TPAO), to explore in two large deepwater blocks offshore Turkey, marking ExxonMobil’s entry into Black Sea exploration.
ExxonMobil will become [...]

Watching Gov. Sarah Palin’s policy speech on energy right now. It looks as if she’s tacking on her stump speech praise of McCain. She’s reading off the prompter at times and winging it at others. Still not sure what this speech is, what the goal is, who the audience is…. and why this is [...]

. Critics question secrecy surrounding joint venture
· Oil firm says cheaper fuel will aid local economy
# Terry Macalister
# The Guardian,
# Wednesday September 24 2008
Shell has become the first western oil company to win significant access to the energy sector in Iraq since the 1970s, in a $4bn move which could bring liquefied natural gas [...]

Gas prices poised to climb towards record levels again as hurricane hits center of nation’s oil refining base; Ike could also cost insurers up to $18 billion.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Gas prices are poised to shoot back toward record highs after Hurricane Ike’s direct hit to the heart of the [...]