Energy

New York -- Crude oil prices wavered Thursday then settled $1.60 cents higher at $119.95 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

New York -- Crude oil prices wavered Thursday and settled 58 cents lower at $119.95 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

New York -- Crude oil prices rose in overnight trading, gaining $1.95 on the New York Mercantile Exchange to reach $120.53 per barrel Thursday morning.

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New York -- Crude oil prices wavered Wednesday, then edged down 23 cents in the late afternoon to $118.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The sordid TNK-BP partnership squabbles, which someday could be the stuff of a film, continue to worsen for London-based BP (NYSE: BP). For now it has implications for oil and gas companies -- all western companies, for that matter -- considering doing business in Russia and for prospective shareholders of Russian companies.

New York -- Crude oil prices fell nearly $3 to $118.60 a barrel in electronic overnight trading, continuing a monthlong decline on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The past doesn't always remain there. For one company in a molten-hot industry, the past crept right into the present and destroyed a quarter's earnings.

New York -- Crude oil prices eased dropped $3.31 a barrel Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange to $121.27 per barrel.

Washington -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has announced its 2009 sequencing projects, including pine trees and duck weed.

New York -- Crude oil prices eased slightly over the weekend on the New York Mercantile Exchange, dropping 52 cents to $124.58 a barrel.

We've already seen leading shale player XTO Energy (NYSE: XTO) describe itself in mechanistic terms this year. Now that Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) has dubbed itself "the Chesapeake drilling machine," the onshore natural gas battle is shaping up like a giant-robot throwdown.

Watch out, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM): Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) (NYSE: RDS-B) is breathing down your neck for recognition as the majordomo of Big Oil.