Oil firms 'set for profits boost'
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BP and Shell are on track to unveil record quarterly profits helped by surging world oil prices, press reports claim.
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UK businesses are set to prosper during the next few months - but this could trigger more interest rate rises, a report says.
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Ryanair chief executive Michael O&#39;Leary claimed yesterday that rising oil prices would benefit the airline, as he announced better than expected half-year profits.
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The oilfield services company said profit rose 35 percent to $1.35 billion in the third quarter, as strong demand in Latin America, Russia and Asia offset weakness in domestic markets.
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Business & money: Oil group to post highest earnings by a British firm as RAC urges the chancellor to cancel rise in fuel duty
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Investors are expected to focus on oil  prices and corporate earnings outlooks next week, and the  slightest warning about company revenues could weigh on stocks.
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UK energy exploration firm BG Group posts a 22% rise in annual profits on the back of strong gas and oil prices.
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Multinational oil companies being targeted by militants in Nigeria will weather attacks on their infrastructure and personnel given the huge potential for profit there, analysts and the oil groups say.
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The future of oil prices rests on the ability of Gulf of Mexico producers to recover from last month&#39;s hurricanes, BP has said as it unveiled a 43 per cent rise in profits.
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Oil and gas deep under the Gulf of Mexico should boost Gulf production considerably over the next decade, the government says. New deep-water wells poised to start production
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Some of the Wall Street brokerages on tap to report earnings next month might see better-than-expected results as a rebound in the stock market is expected to fuel performance within their equities businesses.
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Energy experts warn that the jump in the price of crude would raise prices for heating oil and gasoline in coming weeks.
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Oil giant BP today said record fuel prices and better refining margins had helped it to bank nearly Â£1 million a day in profits. BP posted profits of 3.94 billion US
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Profit margins should continue to expand at Oil-Dri.
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Seismic firms come in handy with the cyclical nature of the energy industry.
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World oil prices shot higher on Monday  as companies operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico braced for  output disruptions from powerful Hurricane Ivan.
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ChevronTexaco Corp., the No. 2 U.S.  oil company, on Friday said quarterly profit jumped, driven  largely by a sharp rise in oil and gas prices.