It recently appeared that, given a travesty clearly created by the company in the Gulf of Mexico, BP
But it now looks as if, when opportunity to make money knocks, relationships between the company -- which has made both a physical and political disaster of the Gulf -- and its peers may not have fully disintegrated. Indeed, just 10 days after The Wall Street Journal carried an article indicating that BP and Chevron
Specifically, the pair is bidding together for the rights to jointly explore a deepwater block in the South China Sea. Under the terms of the process, CNOOC
All this is occurring during continued failed attempts to stem the gushing of oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Last week, when called before Congress to address the Gulf disaster, executives of several major companies, including ExxonMobil
The spill also resulted in the Obama administration declaring a six-month moratorium on Gulf drilling below 500 feet. On Tuesday, however, following a lawsuit from Hornbeck Offshore
As I've said before, with all that's going on in offshore oil -- now including action in relatively unexplored areas like the South China Sea -- my inclination is to stick closely to ExxonMobil and services behemoth Schlumberger for their size, diversity, and solid track records.