ConocoPhillips announced Wednesday that it will follow other oil giants in increasing research for alternative sources of energy. It said it would increase spending on biofuels and other alternative energies to $150 million, or about…
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Will Conoco Invade Iraq?
ConocoPhillips has its eyes and hopes set on Iraq’s oil-rich West Qurna field. "We’re doing a lot of work with the ministry and Lukoil on developing" a plan for West Qurna, Bill Berry, executive vice…
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Majors Surrender To Chavez
President Bush may not be willing to utter Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s name during his trip to Latin America, even while Chavez led flag-waving supporters with Bush insults and chants of "Gringo, Go Home." But…
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Investors’ Hit on Global Warming Inaction
A group of leading US investors named ExxonMobil and ConocoPhlillips to its Climate Watch List, a list of 10 companies that have been identified as lagging behind their industry peers in their responses to climate…
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Just Good Friends?
Bush Administration regulators are so tight with lobbyists from the companies they’re supposed to oversee that they buy $1 million vacation homes with them. Only nine months before approving a deal to let ConocoPhillips delay…
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Big Oil’s Hot Air in Houston
NEWS RELEASE: February 13, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, or cell: 310-874-9989 Oil CEO’s presence at energy summit is about image, not change, says group…
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An Overview of ConocoPhillips
Here’s a report looking at ConocoPhillips’ recent activities including what its top execuitives were paid and what its profits were. The data was gathered from public records during 2006.
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The Price of Oil
Human Rights Watch’s seminal 1999 report on Big’s Oil’s abuses in Nigeria.