Business, Fuel

Shell Plans to Divest 1,000 Retail Sites

Shell Plc plans to divest 500 retail sites annually over the next two years, responding to a growing demand for electric vehicle chargers.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
March 18, 2024
Business, Fuel

BP Profit Misses Estimates on Weak Gas Trading

BP Plc’s third-quarter profit rebounded from the prior period but fell short of estimates as weak results in gas marketing offset a strong performance in oil trading.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
October 31, 2023
Business, Fuel

BP CEO Looney Quits Over Past Relationships With Colleagues

BP Plc CEO Bernard Looney has resigned over the failure to fully disclose past relationships with colleagues.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
September 12, 2023
Business, Fuel

Shell Sees $1 Billion Gain in Refining on Record Fuel Prices

Shell Plc said soaring margins from fuel production may have added more than $1 billion to the earnings of its refining business last quarter, when gasoline prices broke records in several countries.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
July 7, 2022
Business, Fuel

Shell Drops ‘Royal Dutch’ From Name After Relocation

Shell Plc has dropped “Royal Dutch” from its name, part of a major overhaul of its legal and tax structure announced in December.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
January 21, 2022
Business, Equipment, Fuel

Shell to Make First Profit From Oil Output Since Pandemic

Royal Dutch Shell Plc expects to make its first profit from pumping oil since the start of the pandemic, the petroleum giant said.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
April 7, 2021
Business, Fuel

Shell Doubled Oil-Trading Profit to $2.6 Billion Last Year

Royal Dutch Shell Plc disclosed the profitability of its sprawling and secretive oil-trading unit for the first time, saying it almost doubled to $2.6 billion last year.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
March 12, 2021
Business, Fuel

BP Swaps High Returns for a Cleaner Future With Unproven Profits

One week and two deals later, BP Plc has cemented the view that for an oil and gas company to go green, it must sacrifice profits.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
February 8, 2021
Business, Fuel

OPEC Focuses on Shrinking Stockpiles to Pave the Way for $60 Oil

OPEC’s first production cuts in eight years are intended to shrink the world’s bloated oil stockpiles back to a normal level, paving the way for prices to rise to more than $60 a barrel.

Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
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December 1, 2016
Business, Fuel

Trains, Trucks and Two Tankers Involved in Perhaps Most Logistically Complex US Oil Trade Yet

Mercuria Energy Group has engineered perhaps the most logistically complex trade yet to export U.S. oil since a four-decade ban on sales was lifted.

Andy Hoffman | Bloomberg News
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Javier Blas | Bloomberg News
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Sheela Tobben | Bloomberg News
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Laura Hurst | Bloomberg News
August 25, 2016