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<font size="-1"><i>Moscow, Russia, Nov 27, 2001 (RosBusinessConsulting via COMTEX) -- </i>

Gazprom, Russia's largest company, was awarded its first credit rating on Monday by rating agency Standard & Poor's. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Michael Davis, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 27</i> 

The FBI confirmed Monday that it has warned the energy industry that Osama bin Laden may have ordered strikes against U.S. natural gas facilities if he is caught or killed. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 27 - Oil & Gas Journal</i> 

The Department of Energy at presstime was expected to unveil a unit that will coordinate homeland defense for the nation's oil and gas sector, industry sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 27 - The Daily Telegraph</i> 

BRITAIN'S electricity and gas suppliers became the first privatised utilities to be opened up to unbridled competition yesterday, as energy regulator Ofgem said it would remove all remaining price controls in April. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 27 - Associated Press</i> 

Shares of Enron Corp. reversed days of double-digit declines Tuesday and rose more than 9 percent after Dynegy Inc. confirmed it is in talks to renegotiate its $9 billion deal to buy its larger but financially embattled rival. 

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<font size="-1"><i>SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov 26 (Reuters)</i> 

California's attorney general will examine Dynegy Inc.'s bid to buy its much larger energy rival, Enron Corp, officials said Monday, adding a potential new wrinkle to the troubled $9 billion merger proposal. 

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<font size="-1"><i>MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Nov. 26 (Reuters)</i> 

NiSource Inc., a diversified natural gas distributor, said on Monday it has reached a definitive agreement to sell assets of its water business to the City of Indianapolis for $515 million. 

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EDISON Mission Energy bought time this week to try to convince Contact Energy's 121,000 shareholders to sell out of a leading New Zealand energy company in which they have invested for less than three years. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Michael Davis, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 27</i> 

Oil-field service companies Petroleum Geo-Services and Veritas DGC have agreed to merge in a deal that will create the second-largest company in the geophysical services industry with a market value of about $1 billion. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 27 - Oil & Gas Journal</i> 

Marathon Oil Co. will acquire CMS Energy Corp.'s upstream and downstream interests in Equatorial Guinea for $993 million with an eye toward developing the assets' remaining gas potential. 

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<font size="-1"><i>CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 27 (Reuters)</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 27 (Reuters)</i> 

Colder weather in the West and the Midwest sent U.S. spot natural gas prices higher on Tuesday, market sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Nov 27 (Reuters)</i> 

NYMEX Hub gas mostly ended higher Tuesday in active trade, but spot December again lost ground, pressured by fairly mild weather forecasts and a still-wide cash discount to futures, industry sources said. 

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December natural gas futures settled 9 cents lower at $2.606 as moderate weather in key eastern consuming regions reduced heating demand and weighed upon natural gas pricing, said traders. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Argentina, Nov 27, 2001 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Argentina's government is considering implementing an additional "insignificant" increase in residential natural gas rates next year to help subsidize prices in southern Argentina, Argentina's Infrastructure Minister Carlos Bastos said, quoted by La Nacion. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WINNIPEG, MB, Nov 27, 2001 (Resource News International via COMTEX) -- </i> 

The number of Canadian oil and gas rigs active as of Tuesday, November 27, totaled 296, down from the previous week's 314, according to the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC). 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steve Raabe, The Denver Post, Nov. 25</i> 

Xcel Energy is hoping lower heating bills this winter will chill fiery tempers that caused a surge in customer criticism last year. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 27, 2001 - Itar-Tass News Agency</i> 

The prime ministers of Kazakhstan and Russia will on Wednesday sign an agreement on cooperation in gas sphere, which is expected to contribute to long-term mutually advantageous cooperation in prospecting, developing and exploiting gas deposits as well as a transit of Russian and Kazakh gas to markets of third countries up to the year 2010. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Mary Flood, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 27</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Benjamin Wootliff, Sunday Business, London, Nov. 25</i> 

Juergen Dormann, the new chairman of ABB, faces an uphill task to turn around the fortunes of the troubled engineering giant and woo back investors who have seen their shares halve in value since the beginning of the year. 

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