Saudi Aramco profits soar by almost a third as oil prices rally

Saudi Aramco profits soar by almost a third as oil prices rally on the back of vaccine rollouts By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:41 BST, 4 May 2021 | Updated: 23:55 BST, 4 May 2021 Saudi Aramco’s profits soared by almost a third after vaccine rollouts brought hope of an economic recovery … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Slick move for Shell as oil giant lifts dividend

MARKET REPORT: Slick move for Shell as oil giant lifts dividend after profits surge on the back of rising crude prices By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 23:12 BST, 29 April 2021 Savers and pensioners were given another boost to their pots after Shell lifted its … Read more

Windfall for BP investors as higher oil prices send profits soaring

Windfall for BP investors as oil giant launches share buyback scheme after higher oil prices send profits soaring By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:18 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 23:38 BST, 27 April 2021 BP has pulled out all the stops to win over investors with a share buyback scheme as … Read more

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Baron Oil surges 70% in a week

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Baron Oil surges 70% in a week; cosmetics firm Warpaint London sees sales boom By John Harrington, Proactive Investors For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 14:21 BST, 23 April 2021 | Updated: 14:21 BST, 23 April 2021 Baron Oil has increased its shareholding in SundaGas from 33.33 per cent to 85 per cent, and thereby … Read more

Disaster that inspired Earth Day: Oil spill in 1969 killed thousands of marine animals

Earth Day, which falls on April 22, was implemented to support environmental protection, but the celebration was birthed from environmental disaster. In 1969, an oil well blow-out at Union Oil’s offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel six miles off the California coast An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of cure oil leaked into the … Read more

Disaster that inspired Earth Day: Oil spill in 1969 killed thousands of marine animals

Earth Day, which falls on April 22, was implemented to support environmental protection, but the celebration was birthed from environmental disaster. In 1969, an oil well blow-out at Union Oil’s offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel six miles off the California coast An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of cure oil leaked into the … Read more

Bankrupt oil tycoon once worth £125m was caught squatting in office, tribunal hears

A bankrupt oil tycoon once worth £125million charmed a struggling business by posing as an investor, only to have his mum pay a fraction of his funds and be caught living out of a sleeping bag in their office. Calum Melville, former Dundee FC director, used his ‘charm and charisma’ to lure in the luxury … Read more

Activists launch fake oil attack on the City slickers during Extinction Rebellion prank 

Five are arrested after activists launched fake oil attack on the Bank of England in an  Extinction Rebellion ‘April Fool’s prank’ Members of Extinction Rebellion sprayed fake oil over the Bank of England Covered outside in substance made of mixture of black pond dye and guar gum  The City of London police attended the demonstration … Read more

Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips met oil executive’s daughter, 40, during 460-mile business trip

Revealed: Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips met oil executive’s daughter, 40 – a friend of his sister Zara who is split from her husband – during 460-mile ‘lockdown breaching’ business trip that saw him quizzed by police Peter Phillips, 43, saw Lindsay Wallace, 40, a close school friend of his sister Zara Police were called when … Read more

Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips met oil executive’s daughter, 40, during 460-mile business trip

Revealed: Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips met oil executive’s daughter, 40 – a friend of his sister Zara who is split from her husband – during 460-mile ‘lockdown breaching’ business trip that saw him quizzed by police Peter Phillips, 43, saw Lindsay Wallace, 40, a close school friend of his sister Zara Police were called when … Read more