Archive for December 1st, 2007



Sri Lanka plans to raise more money from overseas investors, officials said despite the International Monetary Fund warning that the island could be heading for a foreign debt crisis.
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Oil output boost not on OPEC agenda: Qatar

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1Dec 07

OPEC ministers will not discuss raising the oil cartel's production ceiling when they meet in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, Qatari Energy Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said on Saturday.
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Japan wants to reach an accord with China over exploring lucrative gas fields in the East China Sea by the beginning of 2008, an official here said Saturday.
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Kazakhstan and a consortium led by Italian group ENI will announce Monday the results of talks on settling a dispute over a huge oil field being developed by the group, a Kazakh official said Saturday.
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German authorities are probing allegations of insider trading at troubled corporate lender IKB and have raided the houses of current and former executives, German news reports said Saturday.
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France's Dassault Aviation will move some of its activities out of the eurozone because of the high level of the European currency against the dollar, the company's chairman said in an interview published Saturday.
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Kazakhstan will announce results on Monday of its hard-going talks with Western companies on delays at the Kashagan oil field, officials said on Saturday, but gave no clue on whether a breakthrough had been reached.
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World oil consumption will rise as winter sets in but it is unclear if OPEC needs to raise output to meet the seasonal demand, the oil minister of top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia, said on Saturday.
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Alaska gets 5 applications for natural gas

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1Dec 07

Five companies, partnerships and entities have submitted proposals to build a massive pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to bring the region's vast but long-languishing natural gas reserves to markets thousands of miles away, state officials announced late on Friday.
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(Corrects word in name of last company to Gas from Gasline in fourth paragraph, per statement from governors office) By Yereth Rosen
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