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...Gang violence is threatening to derail Mexico’s first-ever auction of shale drilling rights....
...Utilities have supplemented supplies through deliveries of LNG to Massachusetts from sources including Trinidad and Tobago, according to shipping data and industry officials....
...Electric vehicles, a backlash against plastics and the rise of alternative fuels all threaten to cap oil demand, L&G argues....
...The shale drilling boom catapulted the US into the top tier of oil and gas producers in the past decade....
...Would energy companies be spending so much money drilling in the U.S. if it wasn’t for new production technique that made domestic oil and gas production more profitable?...
...In the UK, silage with a single “l” is a pongy cattle feed. You wouldn’t provoke much envy and admiration if you dabbed it behind your ears....
...L looking volatile for the short term.”...
...Ebiquity , the media consultancy and data provider, advanced 5.9 per cent to 80½p after in-line interim results....
...Born in Trinidad, Ms Chin-A-Young spent her early years in Quito, Ecuador and São Paulo, Brazil....
...Bayfield Energy bounced 3.9 per cent to 72½p after drilling at its first exploration well in its East Galeota licence in Trinidad found oil and gas....
...Chariot Oil & Gas also bucked the trend, rising 3.3 per cent to 171½p, after securing a rig to start drilling on its wholly-owned Tapir South prospect in Namibia....
...The cash will be used to advance the explorer’s various work programmes, in particular imminent drilling opportunities in Trinidad and the Gulf of Mexico....
...Betfair rose 5.7 per cent to 839½p on news it had been awarded one of only three sports betting licences available to operate in Germany....
...Gold Oi l , the oil and gas explorer focused on Latin America, surged 19.5 per cent to 2¾p on the back of a positive operational update....
...Range Resources, an exploration company with assets in Somalia, the US, Georgia and Trinidad, lost 8.1 per cent to 20p....
...The company now expects to start drilling in the deepwater Southern Falkland basin in the first quarter of 2012....
...He worked at Exxon before joining BP to work in Alaska, the North Sea, Trinidad and Russia....
...A rumoured bid by France’s L’Oréal led Avon Products to add 4.2 per cent to $34.54....
...L&G, down 4.8 per cent to 62¼p, also damped speculation it might sell its asset management arm....
...Tullow Oil was down 3 per cent to 866½p after it said technical problems had delayed drilling of the Ngassa-2 well, one of its key prospects in Uganda....
...ConocoPhillips fell 4.3 per cent to $56.03, while oil services group Diamond Offshore Drilling lost 6.7 per cent to $63.90....
...A positive drilling update from its Manta-2A well off the coast of south-east Australia send shares in oil explorer Anzon Energy 22.4 per cent higher to 112p....
...Elixir Petroleum, which listed on Aim last May, tumbled 42.9 per cent to 26¼p as the oil explorer said test drilling at its Jaguar prospect in the North Sea had failed to detect commercial hydrocarbons....
...Abot also said it had recently been awarded a significant three year drilling contract by OMV Austria, for which it would construct a new drilling rig....
...Palladex is also rumoured to be announcing drilling operations in Kazakhstan in February....
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