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HOUSTON - The proposed $15.2 billion merger of Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco Inc. will saddle the resulting third-biggest U.S. oil company with two underfunded pension plans and the growing [...]

FOUR COMPANIES -- ExxonMobil, Chevron, Texaco and Conoco -- have signed a memorandum of understanding with the government to study the feasibility of building the west African country's second liquefied [...]

LAST YEAR WAS spectacularly good for oil company profits, as soaring oil prices boosted earnings to record levels. The Anglo-Dutch major, Royal Dutch/Shell, with adjusted profits up by 85% on [...]

AT 125 YEARS old, Conoco is ageing well - in fact, it's looking better than ever. A fully-integrated oil company, based in Houston, its operations extend across five continents. A [...]

CONOCO INC. 4th Qtr. ended Dec. 31 1999 1998 revenue in 1,000s 8,160,000 5,655,000 net income (loss) in 1,000s 324,000 (218,000) per share .51 (.35) Year ended Dec. 31 revenue [...]

Based on nine upstream performance indicators, BP beat its peers for the second consecutive year in the 12th annual Prudential Financial analyses of the five-year upstream performance of 10 major [...]

Conoco decided to improve its downstream recovery operations by itself after alliance talks with Phillips Petroleum fell through in the 1st qtr 1996. Conoco's 1st qtr 1997 earnings increased by 55% from $117 million to $331 million. Conoco's upstream and downstream operations both contributed to the 16% rise in 1st qtr 1997 net income. The growth was largely attributed to higher crude oil and natural gas prices., In DuPont's 1996 annual report, company president Jack Krol made no secret of his rapidly dwindling patience with Conoco's downstream operations. 'Some businesses, such as Conoco's US downstream operations, remain [...]

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Inc's 2nd qtr 1993 net earnings were boosted Conoco Inc's improved financial performance. Du Pont's chemical sector continues to remain affected by the increased value of the American dollar abroad and poor economies in Europe. Net income for du Pont for the 2nd qtr 1993 increased to $516 million, almost double of the net income reported for the same period in 1992. Conoco Inc's operating earnings for the 2nd qtr 1993 reached $199 million.

Talk of oil company profiteering seems to have evaporated now that most profits have plunged. Companies posting losses or profit declines in the first half cite reduced crude and gas [...]

Houston-based Conoco Inc. is pumping more than gas into the Colorado economy with its aggressive $25 million-plus plan to revamp the 33 Denver-area Exxon service stations the oil giant acquired [...]

At the time of this writing, the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude is trading at $11.48. Across the United States, crude oil is cheap. This is good for the typical [...]

The three companies that went public in the largest U.S. initial public offerings of 1998 paid a whopping $348 million in fees to the investment banks that underwrote their deals. [...]