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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wields considerable influence in Latin America.
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    In the aftermath of the widespread hurricane destruction in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005, the cost of operations dramatically increased with increased demand for support services...
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    A method tested on various diesel blends of known cetane numbers showed a good correlation with the fuel’s octane numbers.
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    At the beginning of the 1990s all producing countries in Latin America permitted limited participation of the private sector in the oil and gas industry.
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    Robust pricing for oil and gas continue to drive North American fleet growth in the drilling market, and the number of land and marine drilling rigs continues to increase worldwide...
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    Penn West Energy Trust announced that it would buy fellow Canadian trust Canetic Resources Trust, Calgary.
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    Testimony at a US Senate subcommittee hearing in North Dakota took a close look at how local markets can feel the impacts of seemingly distant events.
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    General Interest - Quick TakesIraqi oil minister defends stance on oil contractsIraqi Oil Minister Husayn Al Shahristani has defended his country’s efforts to prevent international...
    Dec. 3, 2007
    Natural gas can play an important role in the 27 European Union member states over the next decades as “a bridging fuel” to a sustainable energy future, said the gas trade group...
    Dec. 3, 2007
    Petroleos Mexicanos may close its Usumacinta oil rig and the Kab 121 oil well in the Bay of Campeche due to a continuing oil and gas leak, according to a senior company executive...
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    The sting of rising gasoline prices is a handy political cudgel, whatever its severity.
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    Chevron Corp. subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Ltd. took delivery Nov. 26 of the giant Tombua Landana platform template, which was loaded from Heerema Fabrication Group BV’s Heerema...
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    A US House committee chairman raised new questions about whether the Environmental Protection Agency is effectively monitoring a 2003 memorandum of agreement intended to eliminate...
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    Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, announced three executive appointments related to continued expansion of its operations in the US, South Africa, and Tunisia.
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    Brazilian Defense Minster Nelson Jobim claims that an oil discovery off Brazil underlines the need for his country to develop a nuclear submarine for protection.
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    Panda Ethanol Inc., Dallas, was granted an air permit for its proposed ethanol refinery in Muleshoe, Tex., that is to be fueled by cow manure.
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    More than half of the oil and gas industry’s basic assets in the UK North Sea that have been inspected over the past 3 years are in poor condition, and companies will face closure...
    Dec. 3, 2007
    This is in response to your editorial, “The curse of $95 oil”.
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    When the front-month crude futures contract fell $3.45 to $91.17/bbl Nov. 13—the lowest level in nearly 2 weeks on the New York Mercantile Exchange—after the International...
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    Laboratory experiments and observation of pit growth rates in six operating fields have led to development of a model to predict internal pitting corrosion of oil and gas pipelines...
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