When we have a White House that opens its arms to the oil industry, we’re bound to end up with judges who have similar sympathies. So it was in the Supreme Court’s slash job on…
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Oil’s ‘Alternative Energy’ Scam
4-22-08 by dugan When I look at oil company profit reports–which will soon reveal truly rabid profit increases in the 1st quarter of 2008–I just ignore the line on "alternative energy" spending. That’s because it…
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Chevron in Iraq: Who’ll Pay?
3-25-08 by dugan If the major oil companies start making deals to pump Iraqi oil, who will protect their investments? If these investments become "a fact on the ground" while the U.S. still occupies…
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BP Pleads Guilty
11-29-07 by simpson BP pleaded guilty today to failing to prevent a huge spill in America’s largest oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. Bumbling Petroleum has agreed to a fine of $20 million for one…
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BP Moves ‘Beyond Problems’
10-29-07 by Simpson First BP tried to position itself as Beyond Petroleum, though Bumbling Petroleum is more accurate. Now with cold cash — just pocket change to the oil giant — BP is trying to…
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BP Funds Another Campus
9-10-07 by simpson San Juan College School of Energy in Farmington, NM, has just announced it will receive $750,000 from BP over the next three years to train natural gas field technicians. San Juan College…
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Exxon’s Good Supply of Lawyers
08-23-07 by dugan ExxonMobil is quick to raise gasoline prices whenever "supplies are short." But its ability to go slow is phenomenal when it comes to big lawsuits. Exxon’s army of lawyers has spent more…
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BP’s Refining Shores Up Profit
NEWS RELEASE July 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 BP’s 2nd Quarter Refining Windfall Shores Up Lower Profit Elsewhere; Rest of Big Oil Will Show Same Pattern Of More Money…
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BP Launches Alaskan PR Blitz
07-10-07 by Simpson Oil Giant BP is fighting back from its damaged image in Alaska last year resulting from a major oil spill caused by a lack of proper maintenance. The massive statewide PR campaign…
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Soon, the Monolith
07-5-07 by dugan Someone recently asked me why Shell sold its mega-profitable Southern California refinery to the refining company Tesoro. Umm, I dunno, was my brilliant reply. Today, there’s a blazingly obvious answer, but…
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Blowing Smoke About Prices
By Simpson 05-11-07 API, formerly and more accurately known as the American Petroleum Institute, is behind misleading full-page newspaper advertisements trying to blame the price of crude oil for the daily outrage at the nation’s…
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Listen To Your Workers
By Simpson05-10-07 ConocoPhillips refinery workers showed up at the Big Oil company’s annual meeting and warned that budget cuts are compromising plant safety. It’s nothing new in the industry. Remember the worst industrial disaster in…
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Let This Be A Lesson
By Simpson 05-04-07 Lord John Browne, widely perceived as a business titan, crashed and burned this week resigning as BP chief executive amidst messy, tabloid headlines exposing his gay lifestyle. But as Businessweek columnist Jeffrey…