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An unidentified man stands near a gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. OPEC and the European Union agreed in Vienna Wednesday to maintain a close "energy dialogue," stressing the importance of working together to help stabilize and secure the world's oil markets. Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's oil minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, met with Martin Bartenstein, the energy minister of Austria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency. In a statement, the EU presidency said both reaffirmed the need to stay in close touch on energy issues. Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
The New York Times  NICE — In years past, Africa was always the outsiders’ cornucopia, the font of gold and diamonds, slaves and minerals, cotton and rubber and, more latterly, oil. These days, the... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
gazprom Russian oil companies may sell gasoline to Iran
San Fransisco Chronicle  0 0 0 (07-30) 04:00 PDT Moscow -- Three Russian state-controlled oil companies, including OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom Neft, may begin delivering gasoline to Iran in a month, said the head of the Iran... (photo: Creative Commons / qwertyuiop)
 ExxonMobil, Exxonmobil, oil company. tp1 Exxon Q2 net tops Street view on oil rebound
The Times of India HOUSTON: Exxon Mobil reported a better-than-expected second-quarter profit on Thursday, as oil prices and margins to process crude into fuel rebounded from a year earlier and production rose.... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, is seen on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. Iran's top leader rejected a long-term suspension of uranium enrichment and threatened Wednesday that Iranian diplomats will withdraw from talks with European negotiators if they insist on such a suspension. Heavy water is used to moderate a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. US hopes for Iran nuclear talks
Al Jazeera The United States has said it hopes to hold talks with Iran soon and would be prepared to follow up on a plan to provide fuel for Iran's research reactor in exchange for low-enriched uranium. The plan... (photo: AP / str)
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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, speaks to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Germany calls on Ankara to work toward EU accession criteria
Daily Star Lebanon By Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, July 29, 2010 - Powered by Nicolas Cheviron Agence France Presse... (photo: AP / Adem Altan. Pool)
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, one of two Libyan suspects accused of blowing up the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, appears in this image made from television, broadcast in London Friday, October 9, 1998. Megrahi witnesses delay panel
The Australian A US Senate panel has put off a hearing on the Lockerbie bomber's release because key British and Scottish witnesses "stonewalled" and refused to... (photo: AP / MBC)
Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2009 that Iran will now enrich its uranium to an even higher level, defying a U.N. call to halt the process due to fears over the country's nuclear program. Sit Down With Iran
The New York Times On the day that E.U. foreign ministers approved new sanctions against Iran that go well beyond the measures approved by the United Nations, the news came that Iran is... (photo: AP / Andre Penner)
A view of the Italy's energy giant Eni Spa headquarters in San Donato, in the outskirts of Milan, Italy, Wednesday, April 4, 2007. ENI announces energy venture with Egypt
Middle East Online MILAN - Italian energy group ENI said on Wednesday it had signed an agreement with Egypt on the production and transportation of oil and gas which would raise Egypt's... (photo: AP / Luca Bruno)
A Greenpeace activist puts up a banner as they block off a British Petroleum fuel station in protest as the BP board announce their annual results, in London, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. BP Reveals Comeback Plan
Wall Street Journal By GUY CHAZAN Seeking to put the Deepwater Horizon disaster behind it, BP PLC announced a $32 billion pre-tax charge to pay for the massive Gulf oil spill, detailed plans... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, second from left, and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspect a guard of honour before their talks in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Cameron is in Turkey for a two-day visit. British PM urges Turkey to use links to influence Iran
Irish Times NICHOLAS WATT in Ankara TURKEY SHOULD use its links with Iran to persuade Tehran to change course on its nuclear programme, according to David Cameron. As Ankara pledged... (photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici)
* FILE ** Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec 22, 1988 file photo. In the 15 years since Pan American World Airways shut down, ex-employee Anthony La Pera had assumed he would never get paid for leftover wages and accrued vacation. But La Pera and another 15,000 ex-employees can expect to open their mailboxes one day this December and find that a check has arrived, from a $33 million settlement with the government of Libya over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. It marks the the end of the liquidation of an iconic airline. Senate hearing on Lockerbie bomber postponed
The Guardian FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — A senator said Tuesday that he was postponing this week's hearing on the release of the man convicted of... (photo: AP)
Iraqi workers are seen at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. US unable to account for billions of Iraq oil money
The Independent The US defence department is unable to account for almost $9bn taken from Iraqi oil revenues for use in reconstruction, according to an official audit released yesterday.... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jourani)
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In this April 29, 2008 file picture, the new, rear, and the old logo of German energy supplier RWE are seen at the company's headquarters in Essen, western Germany.
Egypt inks 'groundbreaking' $9-billion agreement with BP and Germany's RWE
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Steve Henne, left, with Marine Spill Response Corp., and U.S. Coast Guard Marine Science Technician 1st Class Justin Sawyer leave the Premier Explorer to begin a controlled burn in the Gulf of Mexico May 6, 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP, residents, and other federal agencies to contain the spread of oil caused by the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig April 20, 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Stumberg/Released)
Work on BP relief well may not resume for week
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United Arab Emirates nationals watch the display board at the Dubai Stock Market
Arab stocks start week lower on US economy woes
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In this June 7, 2010 photo, truckers carrying oil rest near their vehicles in Haj Omran, Iraq, a mountainous Kurdish resort town on the border with Iran. The smuggling of as much as tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil and refined fuels daily from northern Iraq to Iran, in violation of new U.S. sanctions, is stoking tensions between the central government and its Kurdish provincial counterparts.
Despite pledges, Iraqi Kurd oil still flows across border to Iran
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A fuel storage tank at the Saudi Aramco Shell oil refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, in this photo taken Tuesday, June 1, 2004. Abdallah Ju'mah, president of the Saudi state oil company Aramco, said Monday June 28 2004 that security drills have been conducted, stricter inspections are being carried out and government forces have been deployed to guard against terror atta
Aramco signs contracts with seven firms for Yanbu refinery
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Workers collect snare boom used remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.
BP launches bid to boost US image, ditches CEO
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An Iranian worker walks in the partially constructed site which is part of South Pars gas field, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, in Assalouyeh, Iran, Monday, July 19, 2010.
Moscow prepares sanctions workaround
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Fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, in this Jan. 24, 2004 file photo. Oil prices briefly rose to a record DLRS 80 a barrel in afternoon trading Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007 after the U.S. government reported a surprisingly large drop in crude oil inventories and declines in gasoline supplies and refinery activit
Turkey means business in Kurdistan
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