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  • Lee Fitzgerald, a herpetology professor at Texas A&M University who has studied the lizard since 1994, said the lizard population has declined in areas crisscrossed with roads and oil-well pads.

    Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011

  • The technology for stashing carbon beneath the earth already exists, and is routinely exploited by oil-well drillers.

    Re-Engineering the Earth 2009

  • LONDON—BP PLC's decision to pay "excessive" compensation to top managers who had responsibility during a fatal oil-well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico should be opposed by shareholders at the company's annual general meeting April 14, U.K. proxy-voting adviser PIRC said Tuesday.

    Proxy Adviser Says BP's Ex-CEO Payout Too High Alexis Flynn 2011

  • A Corporate News article Nov. 26 on a Chevron oil-well leak in Brazil incorrectly stated that Chevron was ordered to suspend all operations in Brazil.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • MORE ARROGANCE: President Obama's willingness to put human and other life-forms on the American coasts and heartland at great risk by authorizing deep-sea oil-well drilling, even after the BP disaster in the Gulf, and by supporting old and new nuclear energy plants, even though many experts are now reporting that nuclear "regulators" have ignored or condoned dangers in U.S. plants very similar to the Fukuyama Daiichi plants.

    Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Worst And Best Of Times: Arrogance And Resistance Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011

  • The company has been divesting assets and Tuesday said it expects to raise nearly $4 billion from the sale of two of its five U.S. refineries, including the site of a 2005 blast that killed 15 people and tarnished the company's safety reputation before last year's Gulf of Mexico oil-well disaster.

    BP to Sell U.S. Refineries; Russian Deal Stalled by Court Guy Chazan 2011

  • About a year ago, Mr. Immelt on a trip to Aberdeen, Scotland, had tea with Sir Ian Wood , the chairman of John Wood Group PLC, which had an oil-well business GE coveted.

    Immelt and GE, 10 Years In Kate Linebaugh 2011

  • Lee Fitzgerald, a herpetology professor at Texas A&M University who has studied the lizard since 1994, said the lizard population has declined in areas crisscrossed with roads and oil-well pads.

    Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011

  • Halliburton founded the company as an oil-well cementing service in 1919.

    Halliburton Emerges From Gulf Disaster Unscathed Ben Casselman 2011

  • The company has set aside $20 billion to pay for damages from the 2010 Macondo oil-well blowout and spill, from which it has paid out $7.8 billion so far.

    BP Set for First Post-Spill Dividend Increase Alexis Flynn 2012

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