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Brazil to hold oil auction
Brazil's first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government's National Council for Energy Policy authorized the change. Rights to develop blocks in the Libra field, which is estimated to hold between 8-12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, will be ...
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Enerplus Announces Cash Dividend for June 2013
May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus") (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) announces that a cash dividend in the amount of CDN$0.09 per share will be payable ...
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InterOil And Pacific LNG Group Enter Into Exclusive Negotiations With ExxonMobil On Development Of The Elk And Antelope Resource
May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) and its joint venture partner, Pacific LNG Group, have entered into exclusive negotiations with ...
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UK Gas Hours From Running Out in March
Britain came within six hours of running out of natural gas in March, according to a senior energy official, highlighting the risk of supply shortages amid declining domestic production and a growing reliance on imports. "We really only had six hours' worth of gas left in storage as a buffer," said Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate, the ...
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Lavrov Azerbaijan oil pipeline contract termination not political
Dmitry Medvedev to revoke an intergovernmental agreement to transport oil through the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline was purely a business decision. "Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. The decision to end the Baku-Novorossiysk transport agreement came as Russia is preparing to vacate its Soviet-era Gabala radar station in ...
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Movie Review
As Good As It Gets
In James L. Brooks' "As Good As It Gets," Jack Nicholson plays what very well may be the ultimate "Jack Nicholson Character." As Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive misanthrope, Nicholson is allowed the kind of free range that suits his talents best. Whether he's snarling and threatening his wife with an axe in "The Shining" (1980), or glowering behind smug speeches about honor in "A Few Good Me ... ...
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Petroamerica Tests Light Oil from its Curiara-1 Exploration Well in Colombia
API oil at an average rate of more than 800 barrels of oil per day ("bopd") from the Mirador Formation. The Curiara-1 exploration well produced on test under natural flow conditions light oil ...
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Oil Prices Slip on China Data Fed Concerns
U.S. crude futures dropped to around $94 a barrel on Friday after disappointing China data and on lingering concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve would curb its stimulus program. ...
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Change of Registered Office and Address
Jane.Munday@fticonsulting.com Aurora Oil & Gas LimitedABN 90 008 787 988 HEAD OFFICE Level 20, 77 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia GPO Box 2530 Perth, WA 6001, Australia t +61 8 9440 2626,f +61 8 9440 ...
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Greens to bid for oil and gas exploration
The Green Party will bid in a tender for oil and gas exploration to try to protect New Zealand waters from a Gulf of Mexico-like oil spill disaster. Bidding for Block Offer 2013, the non-financial tendering process for oil and gas exploration permits for a 189,000 square kilometres offshore area, with depths of up to 2000 metres, begins today. Onshore blocks in Taranaki, the ...
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FMC Technologies Snags Subsea Work for Shells Stone Field
Stones field development. Stones is an ultra deepwater project located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast in approximately 9,600 feet (2,926 meters) of water. FMC Technologies' scope of supply includes eight subsea trees, a subsea manifold, topside and subsea controls and associated equipment. "Deepwater ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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The Strand Palace
I've stayed at this central London hotel many times, so was comfortable in telephoning direct for a reservation. It was ...
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