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The proven reserves of natural gas at Changqing Oil Field, China's largest gas zone, tops 1 trillion cubic meters, the Changqing Oilfield Company announced Friday.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Revision cuts Western Canada gas storage capacity</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (Reuters)</i<

The Canadian Gas Association (CGA) said Friday it revised its Western Canadian natural gas storage capacity downward by over 20 percent in an accounting move that did not reflect any physical change in the amount of storage available.

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<font size="-1"<<i<By Antonio de la Jara, LIMA, Peru, Nov. 24 (Reuters)</i<

Landlocked Bolivia pushed ahead in talks with its Pacific neighbor Chile on the sidelines of a summit in Lima on Saturday over gaining access to its coast and thus to U.S. and Mexican markets for its gas.

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Dynegy Corp. Chairman Chuck Watson said his company is "encouraged" by Enron's success in extending a deadline on a $690 million obligation until mid-December and is "working to accelerate the regulatory approvals required to complete the merger with Enron Corp." in light of the continuing free fall of Enron's stock Wednesday.

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<font size="-1"<<i<By Jim Henderson, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 23</i<

Until the mid-1980s, this small northeast Oklahoma community was the quintessential company town -- snug, prosperous and secure -- and there was no reason to believe it would ever be anything else.

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Britain said on Friday it would not refer U.S. utility Dynegy's purchase of former monopoly gas storage company BG Storage to the Competition Commission after it received undertakings from Dynegy.

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<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 23, 2001 - FT World Media Abstracts via Comtex</i<

The German cartel office is currently examining joint venture plans between German energy company RWE AG and the German operations of Anglo-Dutch group Shell, and between German energy group E.ON and the German arm of UK oil group BP.

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<font size="-1"<<i<MADRID, Nov 23 (Reuters)</i<

Spanish oil company Repsol YPF on Friday reported a gas and condensate find in Indonesia with a potential to produce 2.5 million cubic meters per day of gas and 3,000 barrels per day of condensate.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Pacific LNG to Build Gas Plant</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 23, 2001 - South American Business Information</i<

The Bolivian government and the Pacific LNG consortium, which is led by Repsol YPF, will select a port located in the southern region of Peru or in the northern region of Chile in order to build a liquefying plant which will process the Bolivian gas so as to allow its transportation to North America.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Ghana: Environmentalists express doubts about west Africa gas pipeline project</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 25 - BBC Monitoring Africa - Political</i<

Representatives of an environmental group, Friends of the Earth [FOE], from four west African countries involved in the regional gas pipeline project, have questioned its viability.

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Tulsa-based Williams Cos. Inc., El Paso Corp. and other domestic energy firms are leading a $2 billion-a-year expansion of natural- gas pipelines in the United States, the biggest since the 1960s.

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KUB customers fearing a repeat of last winter's staggering natural gas prices can relax a little because of a turnaround in supply and demand.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Reliant Energy Arkla Seeks Rate Increase</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 24 - The Commercial Appeal</i<

Reliant Energy Arkla, the state's largest natural gas company, is seeking a $47 million rate increase.

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<font size="-1"<<i<By Rick Robinson, The Daily Oklahoman, Nov. 21</i<

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Tuesday decided Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. cannot collect $34.6 million still owed to it from last winter's record gas prices.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Int'l Team to Extract Gas from 'Burning Ice'</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 23, 2001 - Kyodo News</i<

An international team will soon launch the world's first experiment to extract natural gas from the vast deposit of frozen methane lying deep in the ground, project sources said Friday.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Natural gas pipeline ruptures, sparks fires</b<</font<</a<<br<

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A natural gas pipeline ruptured beneath a Grant County road Wednesday afternoon, spawning several grass fires, officials said.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Pipeline wrangle threatens gas supply</b<</font<</a<<br<

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A LEGAL wrangle over pipeline use is threatening the future of New Zealand's gas supply.

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<font size="-1"<<i<Chile, Nov 23, 2001 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i<

The owners of Chilean gas distributor Ecogas will consider opening the company's capital to new shareholders in 1H02, company chairman Caspar Sprungli said, newspaper El Diario reported.

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<font size="-1"<<i<By Jonathan Stempel, NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters)</i<

It is rare that holding onto investment-grade credit ratings means as much to a company as it does now to beleaguered energy trader Enron Corp., and some observers are wondering why a cut to junk status is taking so long.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<Duke to import gas to Italy, genco bid seen-paper</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<MILAN, Nov 24 (Reuters)</i<

Duke Energy Corp. is selling gas and electricity into the Italian market via its energy trading business, and could also bid for one of the generating companies to be sold by Enel, Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Saturday.

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"<<b<DONG SEPARATED INTO TWO COMPANY GROUPS</b<</font<</a<<br<

<font size="-1"<<i<Nov 23, 2001, (Borsen /FT Information via COMTEX) -- </i<

Dansk Olie og Naturgas (DONG), the Danish state-owned oil and gas company, is to separate its operations into two company units.

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<font size="-1"<<i<Argentina, Nov 23, 2001 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i<

The High Court of Argentina's Rio Negro province has ordered gas distributor Camuzzi Gas del Sur to suspend a gas rates hike, local press reported.

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Thyssengas Gnbh has pledged to grant improved access to its continental gas pipeline network to Norwegian gas producer Marathon, the Europeam Commission said.

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