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Shares of Exxon Mobil and Chevron have both risen more than 20 percent over the past 12 months, but many of the companies that sell equipment and services to the major oil producers have not fared as well.

A meeting between Nigeria`s main oil workers` unions and President Olusegun Obasanjo, scheduled for Monday and aimed at ending the unrest threatening oil companies in the Niger Delta, has been delayed by 24 hours, a senior union leader said.

Climate change, by disrupting current weather patterns, could play ever greater havoc with the zig zags in oil prices, such as the price plunge seen in early January, market analysts say.

Natural gas and crude oil prices edged up Monday on expectations of colder weather in major U.S. markets.

A mishap involving a tanker truck resulted in a spill of soybean oil in Stockton Monday morning, officials said.

Prosecutors filed new charges Monday against former oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now serving the fourth year of an eight-year prison term in Siberia. The relentless pursuit of the tycoon has showcased President Vladimir Putin`s highly successful campaign to tame Russia`s oligarchs using its politically pliant justice system.

Russian prosecutors brought new charges against Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned founder of the Yukos oil company, and one of his business partners.

Oil prices slipped to finish below $59 a barrel on Monday as investors took profits in the afternoon when they suspected prices wouldn`t breach $60.

Saudi Arabia cut oil exports to its three largest Asian customers by nearly 4 percent in the fourth quarter against the third, while Iranian shipments rose to near year-ago levels, calculations based on official data showed.