Mexican gas explosions force shutdowns
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Honda, Hershey's and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Mexico on Wednesday after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline.
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KUWAIT CITY: A nationwide blackout hit Kuwait yesterday, forcing it to shut its three oil refineries and halt exports of refined products like gasoline, but crude production and exports were proceeding normally, top energy officials said.
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December 05 2004 1700CET- Several explosions took place at various petrol stations at the outskirts of the capital city of
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Six explosions ripped apart pipelines for Mexico's state oil monopoly early Monday, the company said. The blasts were believed to be sabotage and 12,000 people were evacuated afterward.
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Mexican state-owned energy company  Pemex said on Monday explosions caused by sabotage hit several  of its natural gas pipelines on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Protesters seized oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp for a second day Monday, shutting down 90,000 barrels a day in oil production, company officials said.
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Up to 1,200 companies in Mexico  stopped production because of problems with the supply of  natural gas following a rash of pipeline explosions caused by  rebels, an industrial group said on Thursday.
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The Anglo-Dutch Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has announced to shut down a flow station and withdraw 244 non-core workers from oil fields in the Niger Delta as battles
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Protesters besieged oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. for a second day yesterday, shutting down 90,000 barrels a day in oil production, company officials said.
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Production at Mexicoâs giant Cantarell oil field will fall by 15 percent this year, JesÃºs Reyes HerÃ³les, left, the director general of PetrÃ³leos Mexicanos, Mexicoâs state-owned oil monopoly, said. Output dropped 13.1 percent last year. Mr. Reyes HerÃ³les, a former energy minister who took over at Pemex in December, said other projects would help make up for the shortfall at Cantarell, which last year accounted for about 55 percent of Pemexâs overall production of 3.26 million barrels a day. Mexico is a top supplier of imported oil to the United States. Mr. Reyes HerÃ³les said that the company needed additional investment of $8 billion to $10 billion a year to keep up production, develop new reserves, expand its refining capacity and modernize its storage and transport network. But Pemex is closed to private investment and cannot finance the investment itself. Last year, Pemex sales surpassed $100 billion but it paid $79 billion in taxes, which accounted for almost 40 percent of Mexicoâs federal budget.
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"At this stage we believe the fire was caused by oil dropping onto the pipes"  Helsinki- A small fire caused the automatic shutdown of one of two nuclear reactors at Olkiluoto, south-western Finland, the operator said Thursday. via Earth Times
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Federal safety investigators were  headed to Valero Energy Corp.'s  Sunray, Texas, refinery  on Saturday, shut since Friday by an explosion in a residual  crude unit.
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MOSS BLUFF, Texas - A second explosion rocked an underground gas storage facility early Friday, forcing authorities to expand evacuations around the blaze that continued burning a day after an initial blast triggered by leaking gas.    The fire at Duke Energy's Moss Bluff storage facility intensified overnight, an official said...
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Iraq&#039;s sabotage-prone northern pipeline has been shut down for maintenance, halting crude oil exports from Kirkuk oil fields to Turkey&#039;s Ceyhan port, the oil minister said Sunday.
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico  -- A truck carrying mining explosives blew up after colliding with another vehicle in northern Mexico, killing at least 37 people, including three reporters who came to the scene, state and federal officials said.
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PORT DARLINGTON, Ont. (CP) - Exploding gas tanks that went off "like rockets" and a blaze at a propane company forced the evacuation of hundreds of people late Tuesday, police said.
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Two improvised explosives were thrown into the rear of the Mexican Consulate early Friday, causing small explosions that blew out some windows