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The Michigan state Senate voted Wednesday to ban new drilling for oil and natural gas from the shoreline of the Great Lakes. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Ottawa To Discuss Opening Coast To Oil Drilling</b></font></a><br>

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 13, 2002 - Associated Press</i>

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday with Ukraine's presidential chief of staff in the Kremlin amid heated debate over a proposed pipeline to transport Russian natural gas to Europe that conspicuously bypasses Ukraine. 

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<font size="-1"><i>TORONTO, Ontario and LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (February 13, 2002)</i> 

Excelergy Corporation, the world's leading provider of high performance software products in the global energy and utility industry, and Algorithmics Incorporated, a leader in enterprise risk management with more than 120 global clients in 26 countries, today announced a strategic alliance that will deliver the industry's most advanced energy trading and risk management system to energy traders and generators. 

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<font size="-1"><i>TULSA, Okla. (February 11, 2002)</i> 

SolArc, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise trade management solutions for global commodity businesses, announced today that Dale St. Denis joined the company as vice president of product marketing. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Enron Executives Will No Longer Handle Company's Retirement Plans</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Dale Lezon, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 13</i> 

Control of Enron's retirement plans will be taken from company executives and given to an independent fiduciary appointed by the Labor Department under an agreement reached Tuesday. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Enron Executives Profited by Unloading Stocks as Units Failed</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Gregg Fields, The Miami Herald, Feb. 12</i> 

Some of Enron's top executives made millions of dollars selling the company's stock, even as the company divisions they headed posted massive losses. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Documents Show Enron Executives Repeatedly Briefed Board on Activities</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13</i> 

Enron Corp. executives repeatedly briefed the company's board of directors about the suspect partnerships and murky accounting that later brought down the energy giant, internal Enron documents show. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Former Enron Chairman Takes Beating from Senators but Pleads Fifth at Hearing</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Patrice Hill, The Washington Times, Feb. 13</i> 

Former Enron Corp. Chairman and CEO Kenneth L. Lay, one of Congress' most generous benefactors over the years, looked like a wayward child being forced to endure the scolding of a dozen schoolteachers. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Six Directors to Resign from Enron's Board</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 13</i> 

Six directors of Enron Corp. will resign from the bankrupt company's board within 30 days, following in the footsteps of former chairman and chief executive Kenneth Lay. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Creditors of Enron Subsidiary Want Changes in Cash-Management System</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 13</i> 

A U.S. bankruptcy judge is expected to rule today on whether Enron can continue its practice of collecting money from its subsidiaries and distributing it as needed. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Enron Executive to Discuss Now-Famous Warning Memo before Congress</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Patty Reinert, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 13</i> 

Sherron Watkins, the Enron vice president who in August told Chairman Ken Lay she feared their company might "implode in a wave of accounting scandals," will testify on Capitol Hill Thursday, her lawyer said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Frank James, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13</i> 

Five former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission warned Congress Tuesday that some of the problems revealed by Enron Corp.'s collapse are pervasive in corporate America, requiring new legislation, tougher government and private-sector oversight, and greater integrity in the accounting profession. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Patrice Hill, The Washington Times, Feb. 13</i> 

The chairman of the American Stock Exchange said yesterday the Enron scandal was undermining confidence on Wall Street and called for swift action to punish wrongdoers and adopt legislation and regulations to prevent future abuses. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Volcker sought Enron funds for accounting board-memo</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Susan Cornwell, WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker called the chairman of Enron Corp. last year to solicit a $500,000 contribution for the foundation of the International Accounting Standards Board, according to a memo released by a senior Democratic senator on Wednesday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters)</i> 

The following are the hearings that the U.S. Congress has scheduled on the collapse of Enron Corp., the role of its auditor Andersen and related regulatory issues over the coming weeks. 

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U.S. accounting rulemakers on Wednesday proposed stricter rules on how companies can keep complex financing arrangements off their books as the accounting industry seeks to prevent future Enron-like debacles. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday said it set up a committee to review its listing requirements and corporate governance issues for Big Board companies. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Peter Kaplan, WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters)</i> 

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday directed the White House to preserve records from meetings of its energy task force, which critics suspect was heavily influenced by Enron Corp. and other major energy companies. 

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<font size="-1"><i>BANGKOK, Feb 12, 2002 (AFX-Asia via COMTEX) -- </i> 

The Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) plans to set up three new subsidiaries by the beginning of 2003 ahead of plans to liberalize the natural gas business industry, Business Day reported, citing Prasert Bunsumpun, PTT senior executive vice-president. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Dan Piller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Feb. 12</i> 

CoServ, the bankrupt electric cooperative that serves Denton County, put its gas subsidiary on the market Monday on what it said would be an "expedited basis." 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved Northwest Natural Gas Co.'s $1.8 billion acquisition of Portland General Electric Co., the Oregon utility owned by bankrupt Enron Corp. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Michael Davis, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 13</i> 

The major Russian oil companies will continue to combine over the next few years until only one or two world-scale companies remain, a top Russian oil executive predicted Tuesday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Canadian spot natural gas prices weakened on Wednesday, taking cues from lower U.S. cash in forecasts for warmer weather, industry sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

NYMEX Hub gas, lifted early by some short covering ahead of a weekly storage report, ended lower on Wednesday, hit by a late wave of technical selling despite slightly supportive inventory data, sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Most U.S. spot natural gas prices fell slightly on Wednesday amid forecasts calling for rising temperatures later in the week in the Northeast and Midwest, industry sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Bangkok Post, Thailand, Feb. 13</i> 

Criticism of the government's decision to give Harrods Energy Thailand Co another year before it must start drilling in its offshore concession in the Gulf Of Thailand has upset Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. 

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Chile's state oil company Enap has begun drilling an exploratory gas well at Brazo Norte in San Gregorio in the XII Region, the company's second well in an exploration agreement with power generator AES Gener, La Prensa Austral reported. 

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<font size="-1"><i>CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 12 (Reuters)</i> 

Pengrowth Corp., which manages the Pengrowth Energy income trust, said on Tuesday it cut its estimate of gas reserves at the Sable Offshore Energy Project by 14 percent, two weeks after partner Shell Canada Ltd. clawed back its own numbers. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Williams Cos. unit Transco won approval on Wednesday from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its Momentum expansion project to increase the capacity a pipeline from Louisiana to Virginia. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Moscow, Russia, Feb 13, 2002 (RosBusinessConsulting via COMTEX) -- </i> 

The Zarubezhneftegaz oil and gas company is planning to participate in the construction of a Venezuela-Columbia gas pipeline, a source in the press service of the company reported to RosBusinessConsulting today. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 12 - BBC Monitoring European</i> 

Cyprus' Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Nikos Rolandis said today that by September the government will have to close a deal on natural gas, to be used in 2006 when a fourth unit is set up by the Cyprus Electricity Authority, adding that due to the delay in constructing a pipeline from Egypt to Syria, Cyprus is also investigating alternative solutions for providing liquefied natural gas. 

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Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles officially introduced state legislation yesterday to allow the Alaska Railroad Corp. to issue up to $17 billion in tax-exempt bonds to finance a natural gas pipeline built to serve the nation. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved on Wednesday a plan by Energy East Corp. unit Seneca Lake Storage Inc. to build a natural gas storage facility in Reading, N.Y. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Gas Co. Offers Help to Jobless Customers in Orange County, Calif., Area</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Mary Ann Milbourn, The Orange County Register, Calif., Feb. 13</i> 

Help is on the way for laid-off workers and low-income households having difficulty paying their gas bills. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Enron Corp.'s swift collapse into bankruptcy had little impact on U.S. energy futures markets and Congress should not rush to impose new trading regulations, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Wednesday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Will McNamara, IssueAlert, Feb. 13 (Scientech)</i> 

EnronOnline, the collapsed energy giant's Internet trading platform, on Feb. 11 tiptoed back into the energy trading market it once dominated. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Charlene Oldham, The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 13</i> 

Executives are contemplating the new face of risk at a global energy conference in the city where Enron Corp. rose and crashed -- but relegating the corporate titan's collapse to the background. 

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<font size="-1"><i>MELBOURNE, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

BHP Billiton Ltd/plc, the world's largest diversified miner, said on Wednesday its board had approved spending of up to US$335 million to develop the Mad Dog oil and gas find in the Gulf of Mexico. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Deepa Babington, NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Erin Waldner, The Bakersfield Californian, Feb. 13</i> 

Taft's Berry Petroleum Co. announced Tuesday that its net income for 2001 was $21.9 million -- compared with $37.2 million the previous year. 

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<font size="-1"><i>VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb 13 (Reuters)</i> 

Canadian pipeline operator Westcoast Energy Inc, which is set to be absorbed by Duke Energy Corp., said on Wednesday profits jumped in the fourth quarter on sale of its Union Energy and Westcoast Capital units. 

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<font size="-1"><i>HELSINKI, Feb 13, 2002 (AFX-Asia via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Fortum Corp said it signed an agreement to sell its 35 pct interest in the Suneinah concession, Block 9, and associated gas exploration and production rights in Oman to Mitsui & Co Ltd and its associated company Mitsui Oil Exploration Co Ltd. 

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<font size="-1"><i>MANILA, Feb 13, 2002 (AFX-Asia via COMTEX) -- </i> 

A group of private oil exploration companies can repurchase up to 10 pct of the Victoria natural gas project but at a premium, Philippine National Oil Co-Energy Development Corp spokeswoman Debbie Diokno said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By John Fraser, Feb 13, 2002 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- </i> 

SHELL SA joined forces with government yesterday in announcing their intention to develop a natural gas industry in the Cape region, with the gas being shipped or piped from Namibia. 

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The head of Chile's national energy commission (CNE), Vivianne Blanlot, met Argentina's industry minister Ignacio de Mendiguren Tuesday for talks on the 20% tax on hydrocarbon exports that Argentina is considering. 

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