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  • Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips a Year Later

    By Erin McBride - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: COP, MRO, MPC, PSX

    One year ago Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) happily split up. One year later, both companies appear to be all the better for it.

    Phillips 66 became the downstream company, focusing on refining and marketing, while ConocoPhillips (who kept its name in the amicable breakup) focuses on exploration and production.

    After one year, Phillips 66, one of the largest U.S. independent refiners, has reported first-quarter earnings more »

  • Marathon Oil at 52 Week High, Perfect Time to Exit

    By Shas Dey - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, EOG, MRO

    You will not get a better chance to exit Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) than by selling while it is trading at/near its 52 week high and the business performance is also not supporting that price.

    The company's North American E&P business is not doing well and neither is its Oil Sands Mining business. Exploration costs have massively increased; huge capital expenditure has been incurred with no immediate more »

  • ExxonMobil Gains From Turkey’s Secret Pacts With Kurdistan

    By Jaiyant Cavale - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: XOM, MRO, TOT

    ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), which announced last month that it allocated $1.65 billion just to develop the West Qurna 1 oil field in Kurdistan this year, may see a lot of improvements in the way its business takes place in the contested region. In April, Turkey and Iraqi Kurds signed a secret energy pact that may have far-reaching consequences for energy companies like ExxonMobil that operate in Iraq's Kurdistan more »

  • 4 Short-Term Hurdles for Anadarko Petroleum

    By Bill Edson - April 19, 2013 | Tickers: APC, APA, MRO

    Anadarko Petroleum's (NYSE: APC) fourth quarter earnings results were mixed. Revenues were down, but net income was higher than expected. Anadarko’s reported revenues of $3.41 billion compared to revenues of $3.84 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. Net income was $457 million, an increase of $815 million from net income of  -$358 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Earnings per share came in at more »

  • 4 Short-Term Hurdles For Anadarko Petroleum

    By Bill Edson - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: APC, APA, MRO

    Anadarko Petroleum's (NYSE: APC) fourth quarter earnings results were mixed. Revenues were down, but net income was higher than expected. Anadarko’s reported revenues of $3.41 billion compared to revenues of $3.84 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. Net income was $457 million, an increase of $815 million from net income of  $-358 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Earnings per share came in at more »

  • What Do These Oil Companies Have in Common?

    By Austin Higgins - April 11, 2013 | Tickers: HES, MRO, MPC, VLO

    Oil and gas companies are focusing their efforts on providing the most valuable operations to their investors. While gas prices have risen steadily over the last 6 months, downstream operations are not the most profitable space to control. There is a new trend of oil and gas exploration companies selling or spinning off their downstream, retail operations in an effort to develop their core practice of finding and drilling for more »

  • What Do These Oil Companies Have in Common?

    By Austin Higgins - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: HES, MRO, MPC, VLO

    Oil and gas companies are focusing their efforts on providing the most valuable operations to its investors. While gas prices have risen steadily over the last 6 months, downstream operations are not the most profitable space to control. There is a new trend of oil and gas exploration companies selling or spinning off their downstream, retail operations in an effort to develop their core practice of finding and drilling for more »

  • ExxonMobil & Russia: A Winning Combo for Investors

    By Maxwell Fisher - March 29, 2013 | Tickers: BP, CVX, XOM, MRO, RDS-A

    Note: This post originally included a moment of million-billion confusion. It's been fixed.

    In recent weeks, Russia's Rosneft  Oil and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) signed an agreement that expanded the terms of an existing deal. The amendments allow Russia's state oil corporation to participate in a U.S. venture for the first time in history, right in the Gulf of Mexico.

    The mutually-beneficial deal will equally allow ExxonMobil more »

  • Why Inflation Is a Problem and the Hidden Bubble it's Creating

    By Bob Chandler - March 27, 2013 | Tickers: AEE, MRO, SH, VOD

    Many economists fear that the Federal Reserve's unprecedented asset buying program may cause an inflation problem in the future. While that may be true, what seems to be ignored is that there is a current inflation problem. Worse, the problem is also creating a hidden bubble that, when bursts, could severely crimp stock prices.

    The current inflation problem

    The main issue with inflation is the compounding spread between the more »

  • Will These Refinery Spin-Offs Continue to Outperform?

    By Joseph Harry - March 24, 2013 | Tickers: COP, MRO, MPC, PSX

    Some formerly integrated oil companies have decided to spin off their downstream assets in an effort to unlock shareholder value. It seems to have worked, but in a lopsided fashion. The most recent company to complete a spin-off was ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), creating Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX). Before Conoco, Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) also spun off assets, creating Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC). As many favorable events, such as a glut more »

  • This Elite Billionaire Is Shuffling Out Dividend Stocks, Should You?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: BLK, CVX, MRO, MCD, WFC

    Ken Griffin, a billionaire with $4.1 billion in net worth, runs Citadel Investment Group, a financial firm he founded in 1990. The firm is a multi-strategy hedge fund management company with assets under management of some $14 billion. The firm applies a combination of fundamental research and quantitative analyses when making decisions about its investments.

    Citadel's hedge funds have been outperformers. Last year, its flagships, Wellington and Kensington more »

  • Here’s Why Hess Is a Buy

    By Diane Alter - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: COP, HES, MRO

    A couple of weeks ago, Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) announced several initiatives that will morph the oil giant into a pure exploration and production (E&P) company by 2014.

    The focus will be on higher growth as the company creates a lower risk portfolio of assets. This will be achieved by exiting its retail business, energy marketing and energy trading.

    In tweaking its portfolio, Hess will divest operations in Indonesia more »

  • Billionaire T. Boone Pickens' Energy Moves

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 11, 2013 | Tickers: EOG, MRO, OXY, RRC, WLL

    Billionaire investor and oilman-turned-hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens runs an energy-concentrated hedge fund, BP Capital. His fund is generally invested 90% in energy-related stocks and 10% in commodities. With energy a hot-button topic, I thought it only worthwhile to take a look at how one of the top energy investors and his hedge fund are investing for 2013 (see all of Pickens' picks).

    Pickens is upping his stake...

    One more »

  • Congress Holding Marathon Oil's Future in its Hands

    By Cory Renauer - March 10, 2013 | Tickers: COP, HES, MRO, MPC

    So far, 2013 has been a shaky year for exploration and production companies. Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) represents that trend well. The Jan. 16 attack on the natural gas plant in Algeria, run jointly by Statoil, BP, and Algerian Sonatrach caused a negative ripple effect on most E&P companies with North African operations, Marathon Oil included.

    A lackluster Q4 2012 didn't help matters either, despite posting slightly higher more »

  • Sustainable, Profitable, and Cheap Dividend Paying Stocks

    By Anh HOANG - March 9, 2013 | Tickers: APA, INTC, MRO

    Retirees should pick dividend stocks for their income portfolios carefully. They should invest their money in sustainable, profitable businesses, that have a terrific historical record of consistent dividend payments. Thus, I have set five screening criteria to search for those opportunities for income investors. Those five criteria are: (1) those companies have been paying dividends for at least 10 years, (2) the payout ratio should be no greater than 50 more »

  • Unconventional hydrocarbons Boost Profit for Refining Companies

    By Jacob Wolinsky - March 7, 2013 | Tickers: MRO, MUR, VLO

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  • Chesapeake's Production Mix Is Moving Towards Liquids

    By Cory Renauer - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: APC, CHK, MRO

    After 24 years at the helm of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), co-founder and CEO Aubrey McClendon will retire from the company on April 1, 2013. It was his innovative -- and borderline reckless -- purchasing that made Chesapeake’s asset value the envy of the US energy industry. At a time when other producers were still scratching their heads at the prospect of developing shale gas, Chesapeake pioneered the practice. When more »

  • Solid Income Growth Picks for your Portfolio

    By Piyush Arora - February 22, 2013 | Tickers: HFC, MRO, MUR, TSO

    Although crude prices have risen in 2012, it was mainly due to its strained supply. But according to International Energy Administration, global demand for crude will increase by 840,000 barrels per day in 2013. High crude prices are good for oil E&P companies, but its higher demand benefits oil refining companies.

    Moreover, natural gas is used as an ingredient in crude refining, and lower natural gas prices adds more »

  • Very Significant Insider Buying in this Oil Company

    By Alex Bastardas - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, COP, MRO, MUR

    Murphy Oil Corp. (NYSE: MUR) is an oil and gas exploration and production company that also engages in retail and gasoline marketing in the US, and refining and marketing in the UK. Exploration operations are focused in the US, Canada, UK, Malaysia and the Republic of the Congo. Recently, the company has had very significant insider buying. Would it be wise to copy the insiders on this one?

    Insider Buying more »

  • The good ones almost always seem expensive

    By Carl Crawford - February 15, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, CLNE, FSYS, GE, INTC, MRO, MPC, WPRT

    Paraphrasing a lesson from the Bible and many others’ basic investment strategies: ‘…put into seven, even eight because you don’t know which will bring fruit or which will fail…”

    Therefore, it’s good to have the pension, another retirement income vehicle, and even five or six other projects, hobbies, and interests that could become a gainful activity. The hard thing on that list has been deciding where to put more »

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