*BP, Shell, Statoil in EU oil price probe. NEW YORK/ CHICAGO May 23- A Chicago- based commodities trading firm has filed suit against three of the world's largest oil companies, accusing them of colluding to fix oil prices after European authorities opened an investigation last week.
BP PLC rose$. 45 or 1.0 percent, to $43.73. ConocoPhillips rose$. 05 or. 1 percent, to $62.79. Exxon Mobil Corp. fell$. 40 or. 4 percent, to $91.79.
BP PLC rose$. 13 or. 3 percent, to $43.41. ConocoPhillips fell$. 14 or. 2 percent, to $62.60. Exxon Mobil Corp. fell$. 35 or. 4 percent, to $91.84.
LONDON, May 23- A group of U.S. accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to rein in compensation it has to pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is threatening to add billions of dollars to its growing bill for the disaster.
BP PLC fell$. 27 or. 6 percent, to $43.01. ConocoPhillips fell$. 80 or 1.3 percent, to $61.94. Marathon Oil Corp. fell$. 59 or 1.7 percent, to $34.80.
*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
MOSCOW-- Russia's deputy prime minister said Thursday that Rosneft's CEO has assured him the interests of disgruntled minority shareholders in oil firm TNK-BP would be respected. TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil company, was taken over by Rosneft last year.
*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
BP PLC fell$. 28 or. 6 percent, to $43.28. ConocoPhillips fell$. 91 or 1.4 percent, to $62.74. Exxon Mobil Corp. fell$. 61 or. 7 percent, to $92.19.
GENEVA/ LONDON, May 22- The UK and French governments will join a global initiative that will require oil and mining firms to comply with new disclosure measures aimed at tackling corruption, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday.
GENEVA/ LONDON, May 22- The UK and French governments are set to join a global initiative that will require oil and mining firms to comply with new disclosure measures aimed at reducing corruption, sources involved in the process said on Wednesday.
BP PLC rose$. 23 or. 5 percent, to $43.79. ConocoPhillips rose$. 25 or. 4 percent, to $63.90. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose$. 37 or. 4 percent, to $93.17.
*Risk appetite bigger than at top Wall Street banks. LONDON, May 22- Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
BP PLC rose$. 27 or. 6 percent, to $43.83. ConocoPhillips fell$. 28 or. 4 percent, to $63.38. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose$. 02 or percent, to $92.82.
*Risk appetite bigger at top Wall Street banks. LONDON, May 22- Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
BP PLC rose$. 16 or. 4 percent, to $43.56. ConocoPhillips rose$. 28 or. 4 percent, to $64.31. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose$. 28 or. 3 percent, to $92.80.
BP PLC rose$. 30 or. 7 percent, to $43.70. ConocoPhillips rose$. 55 or. 9 percent, to $64.58. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose$. 62 or. 7 percent, to $93.14.
LONDON, May 21- The European Commission is asking oil traders across the continent to provide evidence of market abuse to determine whether companies sought to manipulate prices reported to leading price-setting agency Platts.
BP PLC fell$. 10 or. 2 percent, to $43.30. ConocoPhillips rose$. 17 or. 3 percent, to $64.20. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose$. 43 or. 5 percent, to $92.95.