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...A Delaware court will soon begin an auction for Citgo Petroleum, the seventh-largest oil refiner in the United States....
...They plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole and hoist the largest flag ever flown in New Hampshire....
...(FT) ‘We want him home’ It’s been three years since six men were accused by Venezuelan prosecutors of hatching a corrupt plan to refinance up to $4bn of Citgo Petroleum Corp bonds using a stake in the US-based...
...The number of inactive wells spiked to 6,100 — the highest ever. A fifth of oil and gas employees are now out of work, with 10,250 lay-offs....
...Panicked Chinese oil workers employed by the China National Petroleum Corp, the main client of DeWe (pronounced “DeWei”) in South Sudan, were calling an emergency number to say they were in harm’s way and...
...This week PetroChina, the listed arm of China National Petroleum Corp, reported a $3.8bn asset impairment charge on its international and domestic operations, with net profits last year down 67 per cent....
...A delegation plans to meet the management of Sinopec, China’s largest oil refiner....
...Oil rebounded from the dip, when an Obama aide denied that there were plans to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (Reuters)....
...A number sympathetic countries gave their backing to the deal....
...In the past five years, he said, he could count on one hand the number of times someone had requested such a specialist....
...Mr Crotty says Ineos could use its technology know-how in the production of acrylonitrile – a raw material for carbon fibre – as a bargaining chip in the formation of a number of new ventures....
...among its employees....
...The biggest source of staff anger is the plummeting value of options and shares held by employees....
...He spends a lot of time in Washington DC, trying to educate lawmakers and the new administration. “A good number of people in the new administration are eager to learn,” he says....
...Occidental said Mr Hall and other employees would remain with the company, adding that senior management plans to make a “significant investment” in the group....
...Key numbers ● Revenues: Rs2,207bn ● Net profit: Rs75bn ● Employees: 36,217 ● Global Fortune 500 ranking, by revenues: 153...
...McDonald’s is focusing on the fast-growing number of Chinese urban motorists as it continues its rapid mainland expansion, with plans to open several hundred new restaurants, most of them drive-throughs,...
...At TeliaSonera she is in charge of the Swedish division of the company, with more than 10,000 employees and SKr38.7bn of net sales in 2005....
...Behind the fall in demand for gas-guzzlers – partly due to costlier petroleum – lay a story of decades of declining sales of US-made vehicles interspersed with regular crises in which tens of thousands of...
...from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.”...
...Personal retirement accounts should be familiar to federal employees, because you already have something similar, called the Thrift Savings Plan, which lets workers deposit a portion of their paychecks into...
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