Login | Mail  
Call Today 800-966-5252
Navigation Home News About Us Products Specials Links Price Quote Contact Us Staff Affiliates
Cressman Tubular Products
  • Test (February 11, 2010)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:36:16 GMT: Gas prices? run likely won?t top $3 a gallon

As the economy recovers, energy prices are rising and that is placing extra strain on families' budgets.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:09:03 GMT: Chevron to shed 2,000 jobs this year

Chevron Corp. says it will cut 2,000 jobs this year and will continue reducing its work force through 2011.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:24:57 GMT: Average cost of gas matches its high for the year

In this March 5, 2010 photo, an overview of the ConocoPhillips oil refinery is seen in Rodeo, Calif. Oil prices headed higher toward $82 a barrel Monday, March 8, extending gains from last week amid signs the global economy may be improving. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Motorists are well down the road to higher pump prices as warmer weather and the driving season approach.




Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:33:06 GMT: NYT: Hybrid electric plant weds sun, gas

FPL Group is grafting what will be the world?s second-largest solar plant onto the largest fossil-fuel power plant in the U.S..A vast project in Florida will be the world?s second-largest solar plant, attached to the nation?s largest fossil-fuel power plant.




Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:36:25 GMT: Schlumberger to buy Smith Int'l for $11 billion

Oilfield services provider Schlumberger Ltd. said Sunday it will acquire another major industry player, Smith International Inc., for about $11 billion in stock.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:54:37 GMT: Obama renews commitment to nuclear energy

Feb. 16: President Obama announced loan guarantees Tuesday for nuclear power plant construction in what many see as the start of America's nuclear energy renaissance. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.  (Nightly News)President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the U.S. in nearly three decades.




Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:24 GMT: Shifting demand suggests a future of endless oil

Workers service a gauge at south Rumaila oil field, south of Basra, 260 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The country could be a wild card in the international oil trade and has been signing many deals.Consumer demand, technology, and global politics are shifting in a way that could spell a future of oil abundance, not of catastrophic dearth.




Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:15:32 GMT: France's Total in U.S. natural gas deal

The French oil company Total SA on Monday made a move into the U.S. natural gas market with a $2.25 billion deal with Oklahoma's Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:17:11 GMT: Cost of oil falls amid Wall Street, China worries

Oil prices tumbled Wednesday, weighed down by a drop on Wall Street, a stronger dollar and signs that China's energy needs might not be as robust as previously thought.

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:38:32 GMT: Biodiesel bummer after bad 2009

Expectations were high when this biodiesel plant, the largest in the U.S., was opened in Hoquiam, Wash., in August 2007. But some two years later the industry is suffering, and this plant was shut down after an explosion in December.A cleaner alternative fuel for diesel engines is off to a shaky start this year after a $1 a gallon tax credit for producers expired Friday.




Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:30:56 GMT: OPEC unlikely to change production targets

OPEC hasn't touched its oil production targets for a year, and with the economy still shaky is unlikely to go tinkering with them now.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:19:41 GMT: Exxon Mobil to buy XTO Energy for $31 billion

Dec. 14: Exxon-Mobil announced Monday it is buying Houston-based natural gas company XTO Energy in a $41 billion all-stock deal. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)Exxon Mobil says it will acquire XTO Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at $31 billion.




Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:12:58 GMT: Iraq hails oil auction but risky sites shunned

Oil industry officials sit in the audience as Iraqi oil officials go over offers Saturday during the auction at the oil ministry in Baghdad.Iraq dubs its second postwar oil auction a triumph even as international companies largely snub the most violent regions in the Middle East's last major oil bonanza.




Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:12:02 GMT: Iraq opens big slice of oil riches to bidders

A total of 44 companies will make their pitch this week, vying for the 15 fields in Iraq ? the largest of the reserves located in Iraq's relatively calm Shiite-dominated south.

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:57:53 GMT: Saudi oil minister says oil is at ?perfect? price

Speaking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi said the market is stable and "volatility is at a minimum."Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Saturday that current global oil prices are "perfect," as several key Arab OPEC members indicated the group was unlikely to change output levels.




Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:48:32 GMT: Newsweek: New market bubble is brewing



Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:38:38 GMT: Chevron 3Q profit slumps 51 percent

Chevron says it pushed its way through a weak third quarter by pumping more oil out of the ground as prices recover from a severe plunge earlier in the year.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:49 GMT: BusinessWeek: The coming energy revolution

Smart-grid technology will bring huge savings to companies as varied as Cisco, PG&E, and Cargill, and to consumers, too. But who will foot the bill?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:49:18 GMT: Solar power outshining Colorado?s gas industry

Allen Riling, left, and Dusty Bender, both with Shaw Solar and Energy Conservation, install two of 105 solar panels on the roof of a barn Aug. 27 north of Hesperus, Colo. As La Plata County in southwestern Colorado looks to shift to cleaner sources of energy, solar is becoming the power source of choice is this natural-gas-producing region.As solar becomes the power source of choice in La Plata County in southwestern Colorado, the natural gas industry has been relegated to the shadows.




Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:55:24 GMT: Emirates: Oil pricing will remain in dollars

The head of the United Arab Emirates' central bank says the Gulf nation has no plans to stop pricing oil in dollars or tying its currency to the greenback.