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    US oil and gas property sales during the third quarter of 1999 reached $1.2 billion, bringing the total for the first 9 months to $44.4 billion in 202 transactions, according ...
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    Despite a major opening in the Iranian oil industry in the past few years, Iran still is a mystery to the international investor.
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    During the past 20 years, the Middle East has probably received more attention globally for its regional politics and position in world affairs than for its enormous energy wealth...
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    Case studies show that gas-content calculations, as determined by a novel mudlogging technique, closely coincide with information derived through whole core desorption techniques...
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    The opportunities for investing in Iraq's oil sector after sanctions are lifted are very significant, indeed, but there are enormous consequences for oil markets when those opportunitie...
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    A licensing round is to commence early this year in Nicaragua.
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    Portugal's state-owned petroleum firm Petrogal has embarked on an ambitious plan to reposition itself as a multinational energy firm.
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    Chevron U.S.A. Production Co. and Shell Exploration & Production Co. have agreed to share rigs to jointly drill two exploratory deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico this year...
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    The US Department of Energy's latest budget proposal contains funding for several new fossil energy research and development programs.
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    Oil market performance in the second quarter of 2000 will signal whether escalating prices threaten the economic recovery in Southeast Asia that is spurring the growth in worldwide...
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    Growth in US emissions of greenhouse gases is slowing, and voluntary efforts by industry-especially the energy industry-appears to be a significant factor in that trend.
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    J. Ray McDermott Middle East Inc. has begun load-outs on its recently completed fabrication contract for five jackets and three production deck modules for Aramco Overseas Co....
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    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) estimates it will spend about 110 million Brazilian real ($62 million) in costs directly related to a January fuel oil spill said to be the ...
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    Joint research involving four European natural gas transmission companies has yielded a new transmission-factor formula as an alternative to the well-known Colebrook-White formula...
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    Chevron Corp. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have signed a letter of intent and exclusivity agreement to form a 50-50 joint venture of their global chemical operations-totaling about...
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    A Feb. 4 accident at Formosa Plastics Group's Mailiao naphtha cracking complex killed three Indonesian workers employed by a South Korean subcontractor. The men asphyxiated on...
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    Several of Shell Group's exploration and production operating units have installed or are testing a low cost and effective well surveillance system.
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    Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group will launch its own fleet of ships to transport raw materials to its new naphtha cracker complex in central Taiwan.
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    An uncommon but politically persuasive coalition is asking the US Congress to reduce the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as an oxygenate in reformulated gasoline (RFG...
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    Replacing an old mechanical gauge with a radar gauge on a blowdown drum improved reliability and reduced maintenance costs for Preem Raffinaderi AB's refinery in Gothenburg, Sweden...
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    The oil consumer has returned to US politics. Concern about the possible effects on retail oil prices lies at the core of federal objections to BP Amoco PLC's proposed acquisition...
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    The US Federal Trade Commission asked a San Francisco US District Court judge to issue a preliminary injunction blocking BP Amoco's combine with ARCO.
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