Houston companies ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. are on a short list of oil companies doing business in Libya. Houston companies ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. are on a short list of ...

But if Gaddafi takes his cues from buddies Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez and moves to dilute western oil companies' stakes, ConocoPhillips might soon have to add Libya to its list of write-downs ...

There were some interesting developments coming out of Libya that It seems ... specifically named state oil company the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) in its list of entities whose assets ...