| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:07:36 GMT
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| AP - Oil prices lingered below $72 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors remained uncertain about the strength of global economic growth and demand for crude.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:03:52 GMT
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| AP - The Connecticut explosion that killed five people won't slow the development of natural gas power plants. But it will likely lead to more scrutiny of a technique used to clear air from gas lines.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:32:07 GMT
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| AFP - Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil firm ADCO is to invest billions of dollars to hike onshore production by 400,000 barrels per day to 1.8 million bpd by 2017, its general manager Abdel Monim al-Kindy said on Monday.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:59:15 GMT
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| AP - Shares of Walter Energy Inc. are poised to climb with rising metallurgical coal prices, said an analyst Monday as he upgraded the coal producer's stock.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:53:43 GMT
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| AFP - Oil prices rose on Monday after a massive selloff last week triggered by weak US jobs data and debt woes in the eurozone, traders said.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:31:11 GMT
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| Reuters - The Dow industrials closed below 10,000 for the first time since November on Monday as investors sold bank shares due to heightened concerns about the euro zone's sovereign debt troubles.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:29 GMT
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| AFP - Kuwait is set to post a surplus of 24 billion dollars in the current fiscal year on the back of higher oil prices, despite projecting a shortfall, an economic report forecast on Sunday.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:18:05 GMT
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| AP - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States fell 5.76 cents over a two-week period to $2.67.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:44:03 GMT
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| AP - A Nigerian militant group claims to have attacked an oil pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Niger Delta but oil company officials could not confirm the attack.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:24:58 GMT
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| AP - A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry — how to store power.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:25:35 GMT
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| AFP - Italy's ENI has withdrawn a bid to buy Ugandan oil reserves currently controlled by Canada's Heritage Oil after Britain's Tullow invoked preemption rights, Dow Jones reported Saturday.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:22:38 GMT
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| AP - Concerns and conflict over the first round of federal oil shale leases in the Rockies have made the government more deliberate in the second round, a federal official said Friday.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:33:43 GMT
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| AP - BJ Services Co., which provides help to oil and gas drilling operators, has declared a quarterly dividend of 5 cents per share.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:55:29 GMT
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| AP - Coal companies are objecting to an Obama administration proposal that could raise their state taxes to cover the cost of regulating surface mining.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:51:06 GMT
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| AP - The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by 18 this week to 1,335.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:07:01 GMT
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| AFP - Serbia's state-run gas company and Russia's Gazprom on Friday founded a joint venture to manage an underground gas storage as a part of future South Stream pipeline through the Balkan republic, Beta news agency reported.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:02:36 GMT
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| AP - Allegheny Energy Inc., an electricity and natural gas provider, said Friday its fourth-quarter profit jumped as fuel costs dropped and revenue rose on more third-party sales and higher generation rates.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:00:46 GMT
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| AP - Natural gas transport and storage company Spectra Energy Partners LP said Friday its fourth-quarter profit rose as it benefited from acquisitions and the performance of other business operations.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:47:10 GMT
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| AP - A sheen remains on a Port Arthur waterway nearly two weeks after a tanker collision that dumped 462,000 gallons of oil.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:23:45 GMT
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| Reuters - The BSE Sensex fell more than 2 percent on Friday afternoon, as Europe's sovereign debt, indications of weak U.S. jobs data and a crash in commodity and energy prices raised fresh concerns over global economic recovery. The domestic markets have also taken the brunt of selling by foreign funds, which had earlier invested in emerging markets after borrowing in cheaper dollars.
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