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Chevron Corp. Tuesday night lost a judicial appeal against $18 billion in fines the company is being asked to pay by authorities in Ecuador. The company denies the charges and says the court ruling is the product of fraud and corruption.

U.S. oil group ExxonMobil is in talks to sell most of its 50 percent stake in Japanese refiner TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK <5012.T>, in a deal that could be worth as much as $5 billion, four sources with knowledge of the matter said.

An Ecuadorean appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who accused the U.S. oil giant of polluting the Amazon jungle and damaging their health.

Chevron officials say new allegations levied against the U.S. oil company by Brazil's oil regulator ANP will be examined, following ANP's holiday imposition of a third fine following a November oil leak.

A Chinese court is allowing a $78 million lawsuit brought against ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) to move forward, after having dismissed a similar lawsuit in 2011, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. The action is being brought by local aquaculture farmers who believe their sea cucumbers were killed by the oil spill.

An arbitration panel has awarded U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp $908 million in compensation for Venezuela's 2007 nationalization of its assets, less than 10 percent of what the company sought in a long legal battle with the OPEC nation.

An international arbitration panel has awarded the U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. $908 million in compensation for Venezuela's 2007 nationalization of assets, less than 10 percent of what the company sought in a dispute.

The new field was originally drilled in 2008, said the Brazilian company, and is expected to hold 2.1 billion barrels of oil. The new field, Sapinhoá is located offshore in ultra-deep regions of the South Atlantic.

Chevron will have to pay Brazil an additional $5.4 million in fines for its oil leak in November.

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Federal police in Brazil on Wednesday recommended the indictment of several Chevron and Transocean officials involved in an oil spill in early November for environmental crimes and withholding information in an investigation.

Roughly 2,600 gallons of oil have leaked off the Brazilian coast since Sunday. The spill, reported Agence France Presse, threatens an area of the country's coast line that Carlos Minc, Environment Secretary in Rio de Janiero state, called an ecological treasure.

Chevron Corp. officials Friday lauded the announcement made this week that Ecuadorean state-oil company Petroecuador will clean up tracts of the amazon allegedly polluted by Texaco.

Chevron Corp will stay the course in Brazil even as that country said it has filed a massive $11 billion lawsuit related to an offshore oil spill, a top company executive said on Thursday.

At a depth of 12,461 feet, the company found more than 400 feet of natural gas roughly 180 miles offshore of Exmouth near the Carnarvon Basin in the northwest of Western Australia.

Brazil's said it is asking Chevron to halt its activities in the country and pay $10.7 billion in damages following an oil spill in November off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. However, Chevron said it has not received notice of the action.

ConocoPhillips stole the show at Wednesday's Gulf of Mexico Lease sale with the largest bid an oil company has ever made for a single tract of Gulf real estate.

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Brazilian oil major Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, will not be meeting its daily production target this year said company executive in Qatar Wednesday, citing increased safety regulations in Brazil.

Just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Myanmar last week, property prices began to soar.

While some will argue that Tiger Woods' long-awaited return to the winner's circle on Sunday came in an unofficial 18-man event with the odds stacked in his favor, there is no doubt the former world number one is back to form.