Plan for South American Pipeline Has Ambitions Beyond Gas
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An effort by Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez to build a $20 billion pipeline has generated political and environmental controversy at home and abroad.
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By Robin Emmott LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradicationof coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drugtraffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drugproduction there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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The president will introduce plans to cut poverty and create jobs in Latin America, where there has been a growing anti-U.S. trend in regional politics.
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Pan American Energy has discovered an oil reserve in southern Argentina in one of the biggest such finds of recent years in the energy-hungry country, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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ZAGREB. June 24 (Interfax) - President Vladimir Putin has said that the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project will be implemented within the most stringent environmental standards.
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Ch&#225;vez unlikely to cut off exports because as much as the world needs oil, Venezuela needs customers.
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By Scott Miller, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  May 26--BLOOMINGTON -- Opponents of a proposed crude-oil pipeline in Central Illinois face a costly uphill battle.   Mark McCormick of Woodstock knows.
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Here's a way to benefit from an increase in the global demand for oil.
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The move threatens to slow the development of the largest oil find in the world in three decades.
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OSLO, Nov 20 (IPS) - An international initiative to battle corruption in  oil, gas and the mineral industries could relocate to Norway.
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Step beyond America's borders and invest globally.
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Total will develop one of the worldâs largest natural gas deposits offshore in the Arctic with Russiaâs gas giant Gazprom, despite the risk of nationalization.
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The country's infrastructure makes it an attractive candidate for offshore work, a research company says.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The failure of Brazil-led  Mercosur and the European Union to reach a free trade deal this  month is another lost opportunity for South American nations  eager to build stable growth, analysts said.
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South American leaders on Wednesday launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the future bloc&#39;s 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China this week, a much-debated plan to build a pipeline eastward from Russia's Siberian oil fields is likely to top the agenda.
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CARACAS -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez ordered by decree yesterday the takeover of oil projects operated by foreign oil companies in Venezuela's Orinoco River region. Ch&#xE1;vez previously announced the government's intention to take a majority stake by May 1 in the four heavy oil-upgrading projects run by British Petroleum PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp. , Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips Co., Total SA, and ...