A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for a federal judge's permission to travel freely throughout the U.S. while... A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ... (more)

T. Boone Pickens, founder and chief executive officer of BP Capital LLC, speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, May 10, 2012.

The Japanese government and local companies will buy a 10 percent stake in Chevron Corp.

China Gas Holdings Ltd., the utility that began life as an online retailer, has become the industry's hottest property as China plans to double use of natural gas and replace coal in the biggest-polluting nation.

Students in a college business class on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have teamed up with advertisers from Rapid City in an effort to reduce suicide on the southwestern South Dakota reservation.

Dow: 12,695, -125.2, -0.9% S&P 500: 1,338, -15.0, -1.1% NASDAQ: 2,902, -31.2 , -1.0% European markets continued to take it on the chin as fears of disorderly Greek exit from the eurozone continued to escalate .

May 11--WASHINGTON -- Although the Spanish company Repsol is moving slowly in drilling an exploratory oil well in waters north of Cuba and the island nation is monitoring the work carefully, the U.S. hasn't done enough to help prevent an accident there, experts warned Thursday.

The firms on the Houston Business Journal's advertising agencies list count among their clients several of the country's largest companies.

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says his shareholder proposal for Dominion Resources to name an independent committee to review its nuclear safety practices has been defeated.

Spanish oil company Repsol saw its first-quarter profits rise 12.4 percent to 643 million , excluding results from YPF and Repsol YPF Gas, the Argentine units nationalized by the Buenos Aires government.

India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.

When Exxon boss Rex Tillerson walked into a meeting with the President of Ghana on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, he thought he was set to strike a deal with an important new oil producing nation.