Jubilant Energy to raise exploration cash 5 Sep 2010, 9:44 pm Oil and gas exploration arm of Indian group to seek $160m from London's junior market over the next few months to fund prospecting in north-east India

BP revives bid to sell Alaskan assets 5 Sep 2010, 9:43 pm BP has revived the sale of its fields in Alaska after failing to dispose of them to Apache of the US earlier this year. The UK oil group is hoping to sell part of its stake in Prudhoe Bay, the giant Alaskan field, according to banking sources

Rosneft appoints technocrat president 5 Sep 2010, 7:35 pm Rosneft executive Eduard Khudainatov has been picked by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to replace Sergei Bogdanchikov as head of the country's top oil producer

Petrobras prepares to raise up to R$55bn 3 Sep 2010, 11:11 pm Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in what would be the world's biggest share sale

Report key for Dana bid defence 3 Sep 2010, 10:33 pm The UK oil explorer finalises a third-party valuation report that it hopes will force Korea National Oil Corp to raise its £1.87bn hostile takeover offer

BP bill for Gulf oil spill hits $8bn 3 Sep 2010, 7:51 pm BP said it had spent almost $2bn in the last month responding to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, even as it plugged the leak, taking its total bill for the catastrophe to $8bn

Kosmos considers $5bn listing in UK or US 3 Sep 2010, 12:13 pm Blackstone and Warburg Pincus are studying taking the oil exploration company public as an alternative to selling the company after a $4bn deal with ExxonMobil collapsed

Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico 3 Sep 2010, 6:30 am An oil platform 80 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, sparking a rapid search and rescue helicopter response that recovered 13 people, the US Coast Guard said

BP tells US regulator of oil spill lessons 3 Sep 2010, 12:19 am The energy group has told the US drilling watchdog that systems for responding to oil spills have been improved as a result of lessons learnt from the Gulf of Mexico accident

Statoil paves way for IPO of filling stations 2 Sep 2010, 10:47 pm Norwegian energy group is pushing ahead with the planned spin-off of its international chain of filling stations as it sharpens focus on oil and gas exploration

Transocean chief faces grilling by MPs 2 Sep 2010, 10:34 pm The managing director of the North Sea operations of Transocean, the drilling contractor involved in the BP Gulf of Mexico spill, will be grilled by MPs next week on the risks of deep-water drilling

Petrobras looks to raise $25bn with share issue 2 Sep 2010, 9:26 pm Brazil's national oil company is due to release details of the transaction, which would help fund an ambitious $224bn capital expenditure plan for 2010 to 2014

Norway keen to exploit carbon capture lead 2 Sep 2010, 6:28 pm The Sleipner platform is something of a holy site for believers in carbon capture and storage, a promising but controversial technology in the fight against climate change

BP asset sales close to $10bn 2 Sep 2010, 1:38 am The UK group is selling stakes in two petrochemical businesses to Petronas for $363m, which will go towards its target of raising up to $30bn to help pay for the Gulf of Mexico spill

BP ad spend triples since spill 1 Sep 2010, 10:45 pm Revelation that oil group spent $93m in three months after catastrophe in Gulf of Mexico likely to inflame tensions with US lawmakers