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A federal appeals court rejected an effort by Exxon Mobil Corp. to overturn rules governing access to a potential multibillion-dollar pipeline that would transport natural gas from Alaska to the

According to Business Wire, Peabody Energy and ConocoPhillips recently announced they have entered into an agreement to explore development of a commercial scale coal-to-substitute natural gas (SNG) facility using proprietary

The Associated Press reports that Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco and The Dow Chemical Co. have awarded KBR Inc. a contract to manage the construction of a chemicals and plastics

According to the Associated Press, BP PLC has temporarily frozen severance payments worth around 2 million pounds (US$4 million; euro2.9 million) owed to former Chief Executive John Browne and former

Prime Newswire reports that Tyson Foods, Inc. and Syntroleum Corporation, a Tulsa-based synthetic fuels technology company, will announce the formation of Dynamic Fuels LLC, which will produce synthetic fuels targeting

According to the Associated Press, the widow of a leukemia victim failed to persuade the Supreme Court to consider allowing her to sue oil companies over her husband''s exposure to

Federal regulators plan to intensify their scrutiny of oil refineries to identify problems that have caused a spate of fatal accidents in the petroleum industry in recent years, according to

The Associated Press reports that a Siberian court recently threw out a lawsuit filed by the BP PLC''s local subsidiary over the amount of gas it produces, opening the way

Specialty materials company Rohm and Haas Co. said it will devote half of its $300 million research and development budget in 2007 to environmentally advanced technologies, its largest percentage yet,

Dow Chemical Co. plans to build multibillion-dollar production complexes in Saudi Arabia and China by entering into pacts with large energy companies in those nations, the Associated Press reports. Dow