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ConocoPhillips is a signatory participant of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. In 2016, ConocoPhillips was ranked as being among the 12th best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights in the Arctic. [77]
The Alexander L. Kielland, a drilling rig operating in the Ekofisk gas field of the North Sea, capsized on 27 March 1980.The incident killed 123 people. The rig was owned by a Norwegian firm, Stavanger Drilling, and was chartered by Phillips Norway, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Co. Survivors and relatives of the deceased sued Phillips Petroleum Co. for damages in federal court in Ohio ...
The "Continental Oil and Transportation Company" was founded by Isaac Elder Blake in November 1875. [9] [10] Based in Ogden, Utah, the company distributed the recently discovered mineral resources of petroleum / oil (first found in August 1859 by Edwin Drake (1819-1880), in a well drilled at Oil Creek, near Titusville, (Crawford County), in the far northwestern corner of Pennsylvania) and its ...
ConocoPhillips has a return on capital employed of only 11%. Since Warren Buffett is a long-term holder, return on capital employed matters a lot. Generally oil companies that have a higher return ...
ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $17.1 billion. As part of the transaction, Marathon Oil shareholders will receive 0.2550 shares of ConocoPhillips ...
Tuesday is looking like a bad day to be invested in oil stocks, as downbeat news in the oil sector takes a toll on shares of oil majors ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), and BP ...
The first Phillips 66 logo, branded by the Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1930. The Phillips 66 shield logo, linking it to U.S. Route 66, was introduced in 1930. [11] After a series of changes to the color scheme including the popular dark green with orange and blue trim, [11] the company settled on black and orange color scheme that would last nearly thirty years.
ConocoPhillips's plans to acquire independent oil and gas producer Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal for $22.5 billion including debt continues a recent string of deals in the energy space.