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Chevron sells 30% stake in Canadian Duvernay shale play to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum for $1.5B

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Chevron Corporation’s indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, Chevron Canada Limited, has reached an agreement to sell a 30% interest in its Duvernay shale play to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, KUFPEC Canada Inc.,

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Tokyo Electric signs equity and additional LNG offtake agreements with Chevron for Wheatstone Project

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Under the agreements, TEPCO will purchase an additional 0.4 These agreements, and the previously announced sales and purchase agreement, increases TEPCO’s total Wheatstone LNG offtake to 4.2 million tons per annum (MTPA) of LNG from the Wheatstone Project for up to 20 years. Located at Ashburton North, 7.5

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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

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I suspect that the radio was a junkyard-obtained unit swapped in long after purchase, since body parts have been swapped as well. Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The Kremlin, trying to avoid famine at home, sent representatives to the United States to purchase American wheat, corn, oats, rye, and soybeans. The Defense Mapping Agency also regularly used Landsat data for terrain analysis in Kuwait during the Gulf War with Operations Desert Shield and Storm.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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In this country a lot of the new cars are purchased by higher income households and a typical modest income household is driving a used car.The typical American that is buying a new car, which costs on average $28,000, isn’t currently driving a car that costs $2,000. billion/year to the DOD’s fuel bill.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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They are reducing the share of long-term contracts in favor of spot purchases. million), and its allies, UAE (2.87), Kuwait (2.8), and Qatar (.67), Asian customers are taking advantage of the competition. a durable decrease in output? At first glance, it seems impossible. Daily output from Saudi Arabia (10.5