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August 26th, 2007:

Gulf-Times (Qatar): Iraq oil industry reels from abductions of top officials

EXTRACT: Executives from Royal Dutch Shell have been in talks with Iraq officials this year about exploiting gas reserves.

Published: Sunday, 26 August, 2007, 06:19 AM Doha Time
 
AMMAN: On first blush, the outlook for Iraq’s petroleum industry looks brighter than at any point since the US-led invasion four years ago, with exports hitting a three-year high in July and foreign oil majors jockeying for lucrative slices of its energy resources.

Yet the surprisingly resilient oil business in Iraq, home to the world’s third biggest oil reserves, is now tottering as many of the country’s respected veteran oil officials are kidnapped, murdered or seek sanctuary beyond its borders. read more

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Boston Globe: Behind the e-curtain: WIKIPEDIA, the online encyclopedia: Royal Dutch Shell rewrote a benign description of the company…

Globe Editorial
August 26, 2007

WIKIPEDIA, the online encyclopedia, seems like a democratic fountain of facts, because anyone can add to or edit its storehouse of knowledge. Google “Nellie Bly” or “photon,” and the first results the search returns are helpful Wikipedia entries describing the journalist and the unit of energy.

But Wikipedia’s sweeping compendium of information also suffers from the pollution of pranksters, publicists, self-interested pundits, and the merely misinformed. read more

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT: ENERGY: Crude Conversation

Bruce Smith, Chief Executive Tesoro Corp.

BRUCE SMITH is bullish on the future of refining

Producers
Crude Conversation

Tesoro’s CEO talks about the refining industry’s future — and his company’s place in it

By ANA CAMPOY
August 27, 2007

Under Chief Executive Bruce Smith, Tesoro Corp. has transformed itself from a relatively small oil-and-gas producer into one of the biggest independent refiners in the U.S.

The company has multiplied its earnings by more than 10 times over the past 10 years. In recent quarters, profit has been better than ever as a shortage of gasoline supply has pushed refining margins, or the difference between the price refiners pay for oil and the prices their fuels fetch, to unprecedented levels. read more

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT: ENERGY: GOING DEEP

Wall Street Journal Graphic

Producers
Going Deep

Big oil companies see the Gulf of Mexico as expensive — and one of the last places available to them

By BRIAN BASKIN
August 27, 2007

As geopolitical turmoil makes Big Oil’s portfolio more risky, the Gulf of Mexico is fast becoming the energy world’s savings bonds. While it’s unlikely to match expanding production in West Africa or the Middle East, the area is immune to sudden shocks that come from working under unpredictable governments that control most reserves world-wide. read more

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