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Big Oil gets serious as cost cuts signal worst slump since 1986
They are cutting jobs, cancelling refinery projects, giving up exploration
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Fri, Jan 16, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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MAJOR oil companies are awaking from their slumber and facing up to the magnitude of the crash in crude prices.
From Royal Dutch Shell plc cancelling a US$6.5 billion project in Qatar to Schlumberger Ltd firing about 9,000 people and Statoil ASA giving up exploration in Greenland, the oil industry this week concluded that the slump is no blip.
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