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<title><![CDATA[ M'Bishi Gas Chem Saudi JV Becomes World's Top Methanol Producer ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. said Tuesday a new large-scale methanol plant at its Saudi Arabian joint venture has started operations. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Oil prices boost Shell's results ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Royal Dutch Shell has reported another increase in three-month profits thanks to rising oil prices. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:29:32 +0300</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ OMV says refining margins widen to $6.76/barrel ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Austrian oil and gas group OMV  said on Friday its reference refining margin widened to $6.76 per barrel in the second quarter from $4.24 in the last quarter, due to higher spreads in Western refineries. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:26:25 +0300</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Oil refining key to Turkmenistan development ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ A sophisticated refining and petrochemicals industry is key to plans for Turkmenistan's economic development, and the country plans to boost refining to 30 million tonnes per year by 2030. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ No plans for new ethanol contract: ICE chairman ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Uncertainty about U.S. energy policy makes a potential corn-based ethanol futures contract unlikely for now, the top executive of InterContinentalExchange. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Yemen may offer new oil, gas blocks later this year ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Yemen may offer new oil and gas exploration blocks in a fifth bidding round for international firms by the last quarter of 2008. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:25:56 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Oil surges back over $100, closes at record ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Oil futures surged to close at a new record Tuesday as traders focused on supply concerns and a bullish stock market rather than renewed signs of a shaky U.S. economy. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:35:53 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Viva Methanol, Firm Partner to Convert Methanol to Olefin ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ First commercial-scale plant to use UOP technology to produce olefins from methanol derived from natural gas UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced yeterday that Viva Methanol Limited has selected the UOP/Hydro MTO process technology and the Total Petrochemicals/UOP Olefin Cracking process technology to produce light olefin ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:30:32 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Cost of oil passes $100, sets a new record ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Oil futures shot higher Tuesday, closing above $100 for the first time as investors bet that crude prices will keep climbing despite evidence of plentiful supplies and falling demand. At the pump, gas prices rose further above $3 a gallon. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:49:55 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Peru asks Pluspetrol to up gas for petrochemicals ]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Peru hopes Argentine company Pluspetrol will promise to supply more of its natural gas reserves in Peru to develop the petrochemicals industry. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:24:02 +0200</pubDate>
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