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US presses NKorea to start reactor shutdown by deadline
By Jun Kwanwoo AFP
SEOUL Petroleumworld.com 04 13 07 - storyIEA warns on OPEC output level, falling stocks
By Adam Plowright AFP
PARIS Petroleumworld.com 04 13 07 - storyRussian authorities decline PriceWaterhouseCoopers on gas project - story
Nigerian opposition trying to field common presidential candidate - story
Norwegian ship capsizes off North Sea oil rig: coastguard - story
Oil prices shoot higher as gasoline worries grow - story
Iran nuclear plant still in early stages: UN atomic chief - story
Peru includes LPG in stabilization fund as prices rise on deficit - story
Mexico's CFE mulls delay in startup of Manzanillo LNG terminal - story
Petrobras wants Latin America gas pipeline to aid oil exports - story
Bolivian gas nationalization under threat - story
Peru declares liquefied petroleum gas market in emergency - story
World economy in robust health
despite US slowdown: IMF
By Jitendra Joshi AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 04 12 07 - storyUS ups pressure on NKorea as deadline looms
By Lim Chang-Won AFP
SEOUL Petroleumworld.com 04 12 07 - storyYongbyon is central to NKorea nuke deal - story
Iraq PM calls for international help to rebuild - story
Chinese premier seeks friendship with Japan - story
Bush under fire for delaying action on Darfur - story
Energy award presenters castigate US environment policy - story
Oil prices jump as US gasoline stocks tumble - story
Enel-Acciona to offer 41.3 euros per share for power group Endesa - story
IMF sees Latin American growth cooling - story
Shell offers 353 mln dlrs to settle non-US reserves crisis claims - story
Total OPEC output down 70,000 b/d in March at 30.11 mb/d: survey - story
US MMS details plans for August 22 Western Gulf lease sale - story
Mexico slashes supply pledge to planned Central American refinery - story
Transpetro inks orders for 9 oil tankers - story
Petrobras starts testing B5 biodiesel - story
PDVSA bonds rise as Dresdner recommends buying - story
Venezuela's Chavez pledges to undermine U.S. ethanol plans with Brazil - story
PDVSA's Petrocaribe deal flows with 270,000 barrels - story
Banking breakthrough in NKorea nuclear impasse
AFP/Pool/Kim Jae Hwan
US negotiator Christopher Hill (R) shakes hands with his South Korean counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Young-Woo, before a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul. Hill said a banking dispute blocking a disarmament accord with North Korea will be settled "very, very soon," paving the way for the North to start shutting down its nuclear plants.By Lim Chang-Won AFP
SEOUL Petroleumworld.com 04 11 07 - story
US' Bodman continues warning
on OPEC-like gas cartel
AFP
US Energy Secretary Samuel BodmanBy Cathy Landry Platts
Washington Petroleumworld.com 04 11 07 - storyOil prices rally after Easter slump - story
Second stage of Siberia-Pacific pipeline faces delay: ministry - story
California commission blocks BHP gas terminal off coast - story
Israel must quit Arab land to co-exist with Muslims: Jordan king - story
Malaysian firm taps nypa palms for ethanol - story
Iraqi PM rejects US troop withdrawal timetable - story
Japan opposes gas cartel - story
Finland's shipyards desperately seeking workers - story
OPEC 12 March output rises 307,000 b/d to 30.252 mil b/d: EIA - story
FMC Technologies to supply subsea gas manifolds for Petrobras’ plangas project - story
Errors in contracts complicate gas nationalisation - story
IMEF seeks to strengthen Pemex - story
Venezuela spent half development fund reserves, Universal says - story
Iran says nuclear drive reaches 'industrial scale'
AP /Hasan Sarbakhshian
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, Monday April, 9, 2007.By Siavosh Ghazi AFP
NATANZ, Iran Petroleumworld.com 04 10 07 - storyGas exporters mull enhancing
forum but cartel still distant
By Omar Hasan AFP DOHA
Petroleumworld.com 04 10 07 - story
Halliburton winds up Iran work - story
Oil prices dive on profit-taking
Hundreds die in Latin America Easter binges - story
US criticizes Iraqi Kurd leader over threat against Turkey - story
Turkey warns Iraqi Kurds, complains to US - story
Iran's nuclear progress to industrial-scale enrichment - story
Gas producers to form committee to assess market - story
US envoy uncertain on NKorea deadline - story
Venezuela, Iran back gas cartel - story
OPEC president says oil markets 'very balanced' - story
Japan's Toyo wins deal to build natural gas facilities in Brazil - story
Algeria's Khelil says time to delink gas prices from crude oil - story
Trinidad new exploration blocks results by the end of April - story
PDVSA and PetroEcuador could partner to develop oil reserve in Ecuador - story
Shell pays $13.7 mln in back taxes in Venezuela - story
Venezuela Bolivar gains as PDVSA bond sale reduces money supply - story
Venezuelan International Seaport Agencies open offices in Houston and New Orleans - story
Russia dismisses 'gas OPEC' plans
AFP MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com 04 09 07 - storyIran president to announce nuclear 'good news'
AFP
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
B y Farhad Pouladi AFP
TEHRAN Petroleumworld.com 04 09 07 - storyUS delegation due in North Korea - story
E.ON on lookout for fresh targets after Endesa disappointment - story
Gas exporters to eye forming a cartel - story
Two Turks kidnapped in southern Nigeria - story
Trinidad's offshore gas pipeline delayed by bad weather - story
Total CEO says company has to be 'pragmatic' over Iran investment - storyVenezuela's discount oil plan draws 700 more Vermonters - story
CMS Energy and PDVSA sign purchase deal for sale of venezuelan energy company EDC - story
ENAP in seminar on oil companies in Latin America and the Caribbean - story
Pemex turns to horizontal wells to boost oil output - story
Grupo Santander provided an Ex-Im Bank-guaranteed $100 million loan to Pemex - story
US mission heads to North Korea amid nuclear advances - story
House of Saddam comes tumbling down - story
Ottawa set to announce 'mandatory' pollution cuts - story
Oil prices drift lower on profit-taking - story
High oil prices caused by geopolitical, not supply concerns: OPEC - story
British sailors say Iran ordeal 'very difficult' - story
IEA chief 'not concerned' by gas OPEC proposals - story
Oil prices mixed after Iran agrees to free Britons - story
Iran frees British sailors after 13-day crisis - story
OPEC defends oil production levels
AFP
PARIS
Petroleumworld.com 04 06 07
The OPEC oil group faced calls for increased output to help dampen rising crude prices on Thursday, but leading members stressed that geopolitical rather than supply concerns were driving the market. - storyAfrica's Great Lakes gas project will defuse underwater timebomb - story
Kazakhstan in talks to join Russia-backed pipeline: minister - story
Four foreign hostages released in Nigeria - story
Italy's Eni buys Yukos assets in breakthrough deal - story
US oil inventories mixed, crude reserves higher - story
'Rebirth of hope' as Angola marks five years of peace - story
Gas cartel would not boost short-term prices: Russian minister - story
Petrobras, Petroecuador sign MOU to develop Ecuador's ITT block - story
Nigeria to sell 45 oil exploration blocs
AFP ABUJA
Petroleumworld.com 04 02 07 - storyEthanol boom could worsen world hunger: study
AFP WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 04 04 07 - story
Oil prices sink on hopes of end to Iran sailor crisis - story
Bush passes gas price test - story
Castro: US energy policies leading to 'holocaust' - story
Italy's Eni wins Yukos assets at auction - story
Oil prices fall in volatile trade as Iran and UK tone down rhetoric - story
China not to follow US energy consumption model: official - story
Bolivia's Morales to nationalize telecom - story
Oil prices sink on hopes of end to Iran sailor crisis - story
Venezuela's PDVSA boosts bond offer to $7.5 billion - story
PDVSA to invest USD 10 billion in 2007 - story
Under Chavez's rule, Jews fear for future in Venezuela - story
Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court
AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys
General view of the air pollution over downtown Los Angeles, in 2006. Environmentalists hailed a US Supreme Court ruling that the government has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, as a watershed decision in fighting global warming.By Fanny Carrier AFP
WASHINGTON Petroleumworld.com 04 02 07 - storyGas producers' cartel not
imminent: Kazakhstan president
AFP MADRID
Petroleumworld.com 04 02 07 - storyOil prices ease on profit-taking in Asian trade - story
Japan to talk oil, reconciliation with Iraqi PM - story
China to extend oil, gas pipelines by 60 percent on rising demand - story
China's CNPC eyes offshore oil, gas exploration - story
Dos Santos: Angola's long-time leader shuns limelight - story
Chavez: Brits out of Falkland Islands - story
USS Nimitz carrier group steams toward Gulf - story
Oil prices at six-month high in London - story
Alstom, Atomenergomash launch joint energy venture in Russia - story
Venezuelan regulator proposes state control over all gas projects - story
Petrobras will continue to invest in Iran despite U.S. concern - story
ConocoPhillips, Venezuela in talks on oil projects - story
Alkylation unit in Puerto La Cruz refinery back in line - story
Fitch revises Mexico's Pemex outlook to positive - story
Ecuador: Amazon oil strike ends - story
Crisis escalates over Iran's seizure of British sailors
AFP/Al-Alam TV
A video grab taken from the Iranian Arabic-speaking television station Al-Alam TV shows the hand of a British sailor pointing at a map of the Gulf. Britain and Iran were engaged in direct talks over 15 detained British naval personnel, both sides said Sunday, but high emotions threatened to derail diplomatic efforts as Tehran showed new television footage of the captives.
By Lachlan Carmichael AFP LONDON
Petroleumworld.com 04 02 07 - storyPetroecuador aims to increase production by year-end
Petroleumworld CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 04 02 07 - storyIran stalemate, Nigeria kidnap leave oil prices steady above 65 dollars - story
Oil hits seven-month highs on Iran standoff - story
US to plant biggest corn crop since 1944 as ethanol demand surges - story
Azerbaijan to sell gas to EU by end-2007: Aliyev - story
Yukos assets in Siberia to be sold for six bln dollars - story
Nigerian presidential favourite promises rule of law - story
Iran plans to stop pricing oil in dollars - story
Marseille port strike threatens to paralyse refineries - story
French economy brightens ahead of election, but analysts gloomy - story
Bolivian Senate approves gas contracts with foreign operators - story
Norway's Gassco hopes Karsto gas unit will resume output Sat - story
Venezuela says will recognize only Orinoco book value - story
Belarusian President will make official visit, plans to set up oil joint venture in Venezuela - story
PDVSA's oil bonds sell out - story
Petrobras takes heat from the US over Iran - story
Ecuador state oil company invokes force majeure amid halt of Petrobras production - story
