Luckily for Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), its refining business helped pad margins despite the segments' profits falling 2.6%.

NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Exxon Mobil Corporation options set a new 90-day record for the number of call contracts that exchanged hands between the buyers and the sellers.

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) It turns out oil companies are behind natural gas. It is, after all, another fossil fuel that is found with oil.

Shareholders in Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) can finally breathe a sigh of relief now that former Chairman Ray Irani is gone.

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) With natural gas prices rising off recent record lows, it begs the question, when will drillers restart stalled drilling programs?

ExxonMobil is holding its annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Media access will be provided to authorized representatives of commercial news organizations who pre-register by Friday, May 24, 2013.

May 15, 1911 brought a seismic shift to the relationship between the United States and its largest corporations. That day, the U.S.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has awarded FMC Technologies, Inc. a subsea equipment order for the Julia development in the Gulf of Mexico.

After its 15% dividend hike, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has the world's biggest aggregate dividend payment. Rounding out the top spots are Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

La Jolla-based Synthetic Genomics Inc. has entered a new research agreement with ExxonMobil Corp., using genomics to develop strains of algae that can be used for biofuel.