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			<title>Shell delays Qatargas4 project by a year</title>
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			<title>Lower taxes lure big oil to Iraq oilfield deals</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[International oil cos close to striking deals that would almost triple Iraq's output.]]></description>
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			<title>Iraq may miss Shell gas deal deadline - spokesman</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Negotiations ongoing but Shell set to reduce stake in $4bn project to 44% from 49%.]]></description>
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			<title>Shell gas deal seen delayed past Iraq elections</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Senior oil official cites political opposition to Iraqi gov't, Shell, Mitsubishi venture.]]></description>
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			<title>Japan’s Mitsubishi joins Iraq-Shell gas project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Firm to take 5% interest in proposed South Gas JV in Basra province.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai’s Dragon Oil dropped as client by BoA Merrill - reports</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ties to Iran cited; US gov’t looking to achieve foreign policy goals by pressuring US banks.]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi/Shell JV says 2 Empty Quarter zones give gas</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Drilling outcome at Kidan-6, located near the Shaybah oilfield, said 'promising'.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Iraq oil auction dashes majors' bonanza hopes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[First round of auction closes with just one of eight fee-paying contracts awarded.]]></description>
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			<title>Iraq set to announce foreign oil contract winners </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani says successful bidders to be named by end-June.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's $2.6bn Energy City sees tenants in 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure 70% complete, 25 to 50% of construction contracts awarded by end-2009.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Qatar oil minister urges price caution</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Minister says still too early for exporters to be optimistic, despite recent oil price rise on world markets.]]></description>
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			<title>Jordan signs $540m oil exploration deal with Shell</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell will spend $540m on preliminary exploration, expects many years of study. ]]></description>
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			<title>Shell, Dow to hold 20% in Kuwait-China refinery project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Each to take 10% stake in petrochemical plant aimed at raising Kuwaiti oil exports to China.]]></description>
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			<title>Sinopec, Kuwait to build $9bn plant in China - report </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agreement comes as Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah visits China.]]></description>
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			<title>Oil moves above $50 on back of rising stock markets</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Improved consumer confidence in US pushes oil price up, despite concerns over swine flu.]]></description>
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			<title>Crude investments</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will sliding oil prices & legal wrangling cramp Iraq's comeback as an oil investment destination for foreign cos?]]></description>
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			<title>Offshore delivery of LNG to Dubai from Qatar due 2011</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell to build offshore terminal to pipe the liquefied natural gas to Dubai.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Iraq acts to convince foreign firms of oil potential</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Iraq to provide new,free data on its giant oil fields to 30 oil companies.  ]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Shell eyes Mideast growth, job cuts</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[O&G major plans to relocate 40-50 roles from Dubai to Glasgow, Krakow & Kuala Lumpur.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Bahrain, Shell agree to study gas supply, imports </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf kingdom, O&G major to probe avenues for gas imports to meet rising demand.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Burning ambition</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=541040&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Shell's Mounir Bouaziz reveals exclusively the details of the company's deal in Southern Iraq.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | Interviews</category>
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			<title>Looking further a field</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=538706&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Richard Baillie explores Europe's gas supply options in the face of an ever more belligerent Russian bear.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | Features</category>
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			<title>Kuwait struggles</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Can the country’s downstream sector push on in the face of troublesome roadblocks? Petrochemicals Middle East investigates.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | Features</category>
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			<title>OMV in talks with BP, Shell over Iraqi gas</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Austrian firm to transport gas through planned Nabucco pipeline to reduce EU's reliance on Russia. ]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>ADNOC, Shell sign deal on offshore gas fields</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Memo of understanding to jointly explore, develop, produce fields in Abu Dhabi.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>World's largest gas-to-liquids plant by end 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell's Qatar boss sees long-term benefits in Pearl GTL, despite cost overruns.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Shell forms JV in beleaguered nation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Iraq’s Ministry of Oil and Royal Dutch Shell have signed a Heads of Agreement to establish a joint venture between South Gas Company and Shell, for the processing and marketing of natural gas produced in the Governorate of Basra in southern Iraq.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Iraq opens door to foreign investment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Development of the energy sector in Iraq has proven cumbersome and highly controversial, but ink is finally being put to paper.]]></description>
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			<title>Clean coal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Technology enabling carbon capture may release unrealised potential in coal.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Gas proving far less contentious than oil in Iraq</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell’s latest gas deal may set a precedent for other IOCs.]]></description>
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