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Stories: 2008

March 16 - 30

Zimbabwe announces first results as riot police deploy, opposition claim victory

AFP/Desmond Kwande

The leader of the Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, casts his vote in Harare on March 29.

HARARE
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Venezuela'S PDVSA 2007 profits
rose by 15 percent to $6.3

EFE

Rafael Ramirez Venezuela's energy minister and PDVSA's CEO

CARACAS
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Oil prices below 105 dollars in Asian trade - story

France ready to fly out Colombian hostage amid health fears - story

Clinton vows to stay in White House race to the end - story

NKorean military hardliners seen behind nuclear deal deadlock - story

Mugabe's future on the line as Zimbabwe votes - story

Dalai Lama pleads for 'world community' to resolve Tibet crisis - story

Bolivia: Deadline set for energy nationalization - story

Venezuelans tap into North England oil expertise- story

Gabon faces nationwide oil strike: union - story

Colombia pressures rebels to free hostages - story

Violence a "defining moment" for Iraq: Bush - story

Oil prices slip on economic concerns - story

Doha deal still 'possible' with concessions: Bush - story

NKorea raises stakes in nuke dispute with missile launches - story

Philippine oil company sets aside 26 mln dlrs for biofuel plantations - story

Venezuela: Chalmette oil sent to China after Exxon Mobil stops ordering - story

Mexico's Calderon under intense fire on energy reform effort - story

Zimbabwe opposition: claim victory,
and said results delayed to save Mugabe

Reuters /Philimon Bulawayo

Zimbabwean independent presidential candidate Simba Makoni speaks to journalists after visiting a polling station in Harare March 29, 2008.

HARARE
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Colombia says uranium find points
to FARC's dangerous ambition

Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez

Colombia's army commander General Fredy Padilla displays to the media a video of uranium found near the capital, in Bogota March 26, 2008.

BOGOTA
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Iraq pipeline attack stokes fears over global oil supplies

LONDON
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Oil prices spike above 107 dollars on Iraq pipeline attack - story

Endesa assets sold to Germany's E.ON for 13.5 billion euros: report - story

Belarus state oil company chief convicted for abuse of power - story

Baghdad under curfew as Iraq PM vows to pursue crackdown - story

US lawmakers tell Kadhafi of interest in gas, oil - story

Nigerias forests to disappear by 2020: expert - story

CNOOC increases profits on oil, gas price hikes - story

Biofuels boom hurting Asia's poorest: UN - story

Mexico may let foreign cos. extract oil - story

Bolivia to buy BP, Repsol gas holdings - story

Brazil Lula says backs Petrobras-Pemex tie-up - story

Colombia's Ecopetrol hopes to list shares in H2 - story

Colombia: Venezuela supported rebel group, claims academic - story

Ceará LNG terminal ready in June, Rio in October - story

Colombia courts Big Oil to pump up its production - story

Ecuadorian president meets Repsol
head to discuss oil contracts

AFP/ Geraldo Caso

Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa

MADRID
Petroleumworld.com March 27, 2008 - story

Chavez, Lula talk energy cooperation, regional defense council

Reuters/Jamil Bittar

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez shake hands during visit at the refinery that Brazil's Petrobras and Venezuela's PDVSA are building together in Recife, capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, March 26, 2008.

RECIFE, Brazil
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Bush expresses concern to Chinese leader Hu over Tibet turmoil - story

Shell says working to resolve Gabon oil strike - story

ExxonMobil extends pact with Malaysia's Petronas - story

Oil prices spike as US crude stocks flatten out - story

Chavez backs Brazilian idea for South American defense council - story

Bush announces April visit to Russia - story

Trichet looks to Asian, oil crises for lessons for today - story

Spain's Gas Natural to buy gas in Brazil for its customers - story

US says Iran behind violence in Iraq - story

Venezuela to invest in Brazil refinery - story

Bolivia to Mexico Energy Summit - story

Petrotrin-Trimar orders additional shipment of KX-100 from United Energy - story

Venezuela's Chavez wary of McCain, says he seems 'man of war' - story

New 24-hour strike at Venezuela's largest steel plant - story

Rolls-Royce wins $73M Petrobras contract for new Brazil offshore platform - story

Venezuela willing to invest $4 billion in refinery - story

Venezuela, Brazil mull forming 'Latam NATO'

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com March 26, 2008 - story

Russia may cut oil extraction tax
to boost investment: report

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Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin

MOSCOW
Petroleumworld.com March 26, 2008 - story

Oil prices top 101 dollars - story

Belarus to set up air defence for Venezuela - story

Bush ready to work with Pakistan's new PM: White House - story

Briton killed in Nigeria: diplomatic sources - story

Bush maintains silence on Tibet unrest - story

Lebanon will not attend Arab summit - story

Oil prices gain as market awaits update on US stockpiles - story

Pemex launches tender for second stage expansion at Morelos ethylene plant - story

Pemex oil output decline continues; gas output up - story

Petrobras denies discovery of mega oil field in Maranhao State - story

Mexico total oil reserves slip to 44.48 bln bce - story

Colombia revives tensions with comments-Chavez - story

PDVSA to face Netherlands court - story

Saudis keeping word on oil output,
but US needs to do more:Cheney

AP /Deb Riechmann

Vice President Dick Cheney meets with Saudi King Abdullah to begin talks about oil, security and Mideast issues, Friday, March 21, 2008, at the king's horse farm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

WASHINGTON
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Venezuela's Chavez announce new
tax for PDVSA and foreign oil co

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com March 25, 2008 - story

Chavez ridicules probe of his alleged links to FARC rebels - story

US, Bahrain sign deal on nuclear energy cooperation: US - story

Egypt opposition protests against gas sales to Israel - story

Greenpeace activists protest new nuclear plant for Rio - story

Oil prices drop as US growth seen slowing - story

Putin urges Iraq to let in Russian oil companies: Kremlin - story

Pecem LNG regas terminal in Brazil approved - story

Row on Mexican left seen delaying oil bill - story

Cepsa buys rights for Colombia oilfield with reserves of 40 mln barrels - story

100 hurt as militants blow up
tankers in Pakistan: officials

AFP/File

Pakistani tribesman looking at the burning oil tankers

PESHAWAR, Pakistan
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Biofuel boom threatens
food supplies: Nestle

AFP/Getty/Scott Olson

Corn grows in a farm field near Seneca, Illinois.

ZURICH
Petroleumworld.com March 24, 2008- story

Oil prices fall on US growth concerns - story

Cheney hits out at Iran, Syria as he wraps up Mideast peace push - story

US official says Cheney unlikely to have pressured Saudi over oil - story

Billions of electricity dollars evaporated in Nigeria - story

China eyes nuclear energy after snow: report - story

'No option' ruled out over Iran nuclear push: Barak - story

Russia announces spy arrests after BP raids: report - story

Oil prices fall on economic jitters - story

Danger seen in Venezuela's sale of oil in euros: experts - story

OPEC president sees $80-$100/b oil price range for rest of year - story

With Fidel Castro gone, US oil sector shows interest in Cuba - story

Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution - story

Peru: indigenous seize oil field - story

Gazprom and YPFB ink geological exploration in Bolivia - story

Petrobras reels in 22 U.S. Gulf blocks - story

Bolivia's natural gas coveted by two neighbors - story

Ecuador warns tension with Colombia could worsen - story

Peru protests shrink output at Pluspetrol - story

Venezuela refinances $1.4 bln Sincor project debt - story

Petrobras to spend $1.5 bllion on fertilizer unit, Valor says - story

Surinam: Venezuela proposes gas pipeline to Panamaribo- story

Continental, Boeing and GE announce plans for Biofuels flight demo - story

Oil prices dive on US demand fears - story

Venezuela says to return to
arbitration with ExxonMobil

Reuters

Venezuela Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez.

CARACAS
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Bush says alleged Venezuela-FARC
ties 'closer' than thought

AP /Phil Coale

President George W. Bush gives a speech at the Blount Island Marine Terminal,
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, in Jacksonville, Fla.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida
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Oil prices shoot higher after Fed rate cut - story

Wall St cheers Fed rate cut; Dow soars over 400 points - story

Divided Fed delivers rate cut of three-quarters of a point - story

Switzerland seizes over 17 million dollars in oil-for-food scandal - story

Sharp downturn in US economy: Paulson - story

Mexico's proved oil reserves drop further - story

Repsol YPF announces $1 bn in new investment in Bolivia - story

Brazil mulls higher oil exploration tax - minister - story

London judge lifts asset freeze
on Venezuela oil firm PDVSA

LONDON
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World markets attempt
rebound before Fed decision

AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno

A pedestrian passes before a share prices board in Tokyo on March 14. European and Asian shares plunged on Monday as investors dumped both stocks and the dollar on fears more US banks could be vulnerable to the credit crisis that sank Bear Stearns.

LONDON
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OPEC's Khelil says speculators,
not oil shortage, driving price

OPEC President Chakib Khelil

ALGIERS
Petroleumworld.com March 17, 2008

OPEC President Chakib Khelil said Sunday oil prices were rising due to speculation and not because of a shortage of supply.- story

Oil eases from record highs on demand worries - story

JPMorgan Chase buys crisis-hit Bear Stearns for 236 mln dlrs - story

Chavez hits back at Bush, calls him a genocidal terrorist - story

Iran conservatives retain grip on parliament - story

Venezuela opts for oil contracts in euros: report - story

Venezuela to place additional 90,000 barrels of gasoline daily - story

Bolivian export problem leaves gas customers cold - story

US approves new oil pipeline from Canada - story

Turmoil in Tibet after deadly violence - story

Bush insists dollar policy remains the same - story

North Korea must fulfill nuclear obligations: Rice - story

Correa to Bush: send us your troops or 'shut up' - story

Iran election 'results cooked,' US says - story

Cuba eyes reforms; due to free up computer sales - story