BP to Sell Four Oil Fields in Gulf of Mexico for $650 Million

BP (BP) will sell four deep-water oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico for $650 million.

The company will sell the fields to Marubeni Oil and Gas, a unit of Japan’s Marubeni Corp., The Wall Street Journal said. The deal could be completed by early 2011.

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The oil giant’s net production from these fields is about 15,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. The fields “did not fit well…

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BP to Sell Four Oil Fields in Gulf of Mexico for $650 Million originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:26:00.

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Gas Prices Rise by Just Over a Nickel in Two Weeks

Prices at the pump got a little more painful over the past two weeks as crude oil continues to rise. Oil has risen as a weak economy and expectations of further action by the Federal Reserve drive the dollar down.
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BP to Award Bonuses Based on Safety Perfomance

BP (BP) will award its fourth-quarter bonuses based entirely on performance on safety-related issues.

CEO Bob Dudley told employees on Monday that the bonus policy is meant to emphasize that safety is the company’s top priority, The Associated Press reported.

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The policy will help ensure that “a low-probability, high-impact incident such as the Deepwater Horizon tragedy never…

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BP to Award Bonuses Based on Safety Perfomance originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:46:00.

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BP to Sell Venezuela, Vietnam Assets for $1.8 Billion

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As it continues to raise funds to deal with the fallout from the Gulf oil spill, oil giant BP (BP) is set to sell a total of $1.8 billion in assets in Venezuela and Vietnam to TNK-BP.

TNK-BP, a joint venture between BP and a group of Russian billionaires, will make a $1 billion deposit by Oct. 29 and pay the rest in the first half of 2011, Bloomberg News reported.

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BP to Sell Venezuela, Vietnam Assets for $1.8 Billion originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:28:00.

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