BAKERSFIELD, CA, May 14, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Pyramid Oil Company (nyse mkt:PDO) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2013.

In setting the tax and royalty rates, the government faces an internal agency problem. The government must delegate the negotiation to a small group of its members and resource extraction companies have a strong incentive to bribe these individuals ...

The world's most profitable and admired company will not be one that sells computers or airplanes or oil but one that quietly economizes on energy use around the world, starting with new air-conditioning systems... The conclusion of the ... But he is ...

This company first caught my eye in the summer of 2008 when its share price jumped from the two dollar range to over twelve dollars in just a couple of months.

Okehi, who dwelt on some of the anomalies in oil and gas underwriting in the country, said the business is skewed to the disadvantage of the local market in favour of captive companies owned by the oil multinationals by design, using the �quota share ...

The relationship began in the 1930s when Total started searching for the oil reserves it later helped to extract and export.

The pyramid, according to that wonderful 1970 vintage brochure BT gave us, actually protrudes one foot above ground level. Some say the raft floats on a �bed of oil�, but we've not been able to get that confirmed. BT's bumf simply refers to the ...

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National Geographic on the recent destruction of Mayan ruins Elizabeth Snodgrass reports on a construction project in Belize that entailed the destruction of a 60-foot-tall Mayan pyramid. "A construction company in Belize has been scooping stone out of ...