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<font size="-1"><i>By Andrew Quinn, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i>

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Baker Hughes Inc., the world's third-biggest oilfield services company, on Thursday said warmer-than-normal winter weather, conservation and an ailing economy will keep North American energy demand low and impact drilling results there in the first half of 2002. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Benjamin Y. Lowe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 14</i>

Philadelphia Gas Works will ask for a rate increase of up to $50 million because of lower gas sales caused by warm winter weather. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 14</i> 

Two Enron Corp. units that could bring in almost $3.4 billion moved closer to sale in bankruptcy court here Wednesday, as more details emerged of the company's recent financial operations. 

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<font size="-1"><i>HOUSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

Shattered energy company Enron Corp. on Thursday fired its top accounting officers, Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey and Chief Risk Officer Richard Buy, in a disciplinary action. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By MARC HEBERT, WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) --</i> 

An executive at bankrupt Enron Corp. made clear Thursday that she had alerted the company's chief executive officer about the firm's questionable accounting practices as early as last August. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Enron Documents Map Details of Creative Accounting; Executive's Stake Shielded</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 14</i> 

Internal Enron documents released Wednesday shine more light on the elaborate accounting maneuvers it employed to avoid reporting details of its off-the-books partnerships. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Enron Prompts Federal Investigation</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14 - Associated Press</i> 

Federal regulators are investigating wholesale power and natural gas markets, with a focus on whether manipulation by Enron Corp. or other energy traders caused big price increases in the West a year ago. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Head of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Ordered to Reveal Enron Contacts</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 14</i> 

As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission opened an investigation of Enron Corp., House lawmakers Wednesday ordered commission Chairman Pat Wood III to disclose his past contacts with company executives. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Meeting Minutes Contradict Enron Directors' Testimony of Being Kept in Dark</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 14</i> 

Minutes of Enron Corp.'s board meetings released Wednesday indicate directors were briefed repeatedly about the company's deals with its off-the-books partnerships. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Chris Mondics, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 14</i> 

Whistleblower Sherron Watkins told Enron Corp. lawyers last September that the company's outside auditor knew many of the details of suspect transactions and "is as guilty as Enron," according to internal documents obtained Wednesday by Knight Ridder. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Chief Financial Officers in Spotlight Since Enron Scandal</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>By Eric Torbenson, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., Feb. 14</i> 

Now in the white-hot investor spotlight, sitting rather uncomfortably, are chief financial officers. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

After helping to hatch an idea that allowed Enron Corp. to mask its true financial condition, investment bankers at Wall Street firms marketed the scheme to other companies, the New York Times said in a report on Thursday. 

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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Looking for love after Enron at power luncheon</b></font></a><br>

<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

They showed up at a packed hotel ballroom in midtown Manhattan on Thursday looking for love. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

A group of former Enron Corp. employees, backed by the AFL-CIO labor union and activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, appealed on Thursday to a U.S. bankruptcy court to approve payments of $100 million to severed workers. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Deepa Babington, WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

The head of a global accounting standards body on Thursday outlined to Congress a tougher approach on accounting for Enron-type deals but said U.S. support was needed to build global accounting rules. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Gregg Fields Knight Ridder Newspapers, HOUSTON, Feb 14, 2002 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) --</i> 

The images are etched on the American consciousness: destitute retirees, hard-charging lawyers, the off-kilter E in front of Enron's now-ghostly Houston headquarters. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14 - Denver Rocky Mountain News</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14 - The Charleston Gazette</i> 

As one of the nation's major energy producers, it was inevitable that West Virginia and its coal, oil and natural gas businesses would become involved with Enron, the failed energy trading conglomerate. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 13 - Independent - London</i> 

ENRON'S UK arm was caught up in a fresh furore yesterday after it emerged that 15 senior employees at the company's energy trading arm shared in a pounds 6m bonanza for helping with the sale of the business to Centrica. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Chicago Tribune, Feb. 14</i> 

As investors continue to fret over the quality of financial reports provided by the nation's publicly traded companies, regulators and lawmakers moved Wednesday to close accounting loopholes and push for more rigorous corporate reporting requirements in the aftermath of the Enron Corp. bankruptcy. 

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

Embattled former Enron Corp chairman Kenneth Lay, who lost a fortune with the collapse of the energy giant, has sold his "cozy country cottage" in this ski resort for $10 million -- more than five times what he paid for it. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

Abuses that led to the downfall of energy giant Enron Corp. are widespread and must be addressed through pressure from mutual funds and other big institutional investors that own just over half of all of the stock in the United States, John Bogle, founder and former chief executive of The Vanguard Group, said on Thursday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14 - Palm Beach Post</i> 

DuWayne Aulgur has to fight his despair when he talks about it. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Glenn Garvin Knight Ridder Newspapers, Feb 14, 2002 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) --</i> 

The collapse of the energy-trading giant Enron may have ruined millions of stockholders, employees and creditors, but it was a piece of good luck for at least one group: television business journalists. 

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

Legislation providing more than $14 billion in tax incentives for energy conservation and production was approved Wednesday by a Senate committee, which added new breaks for energy-efficient household renovations and home appliances. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Brazil, Feb 14, 2002 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras is close to completing the purchase of stakes in Rio de Janeiro state natural gas distributors CEG and CEG-Rio from bankrupt US energy company Enron, according to Gazeta Mercantil. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Jeffrey Jones, CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

Nexen Inc., Canada's No. 5 oil explorer and producer, has the prospects and financial clout to get bigger without jumping into the kind of huge merger planned by its top rivals, Alberta Energy and PanCanadian, Nexen's chief executive said on Thursday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 13, 2002, (Financial Times Deutschland /FT Information via COMTEX) -- </i> 

RWE AG, the German energy group, won the bidding at the end of last year for the acquisition of a 96.99 per cent stake in Transgas, the Czech gas importer, not only by making the highest bid, but also by agreeing to a series of special conditions, which were rejected by rivals. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Bill McAllister, The Denver Post, Feb. 13</i> 

On the eve of Interior Secretary Gale Norton's testimony at her contempt trial, her department disclosed Tuesday that it is ready to resume making oil and gas payments to American Indians whose lands the government leases. 

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<font size="-1"><i>CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>February 14, 2002 (TradeSignals via COMTEX) -- </i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Feb 14, 2002 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) -- </i> 

BP PLC said it will not proceed with a proposed 20 bln usd Alaska pipeline that would bring gas to the North American market because it is not viable at a time of depressed gas prices and without government assistance, the Financial Times reported in its online edition, citing BP chief executive Sir John Browne. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14, 2002 - Cox News Service</i> 

The Bush administration official responsible for federal pipeline safety enforcement acknowledged Wednesday that her agency's record is "not good" but told members of Congress she is committed to a more aggressive approach in the future. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steve Vied, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 14</i> 

Dallas-based Atmos Energy will soon have 1.7 million customers in 12 states. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday to regulate energy contracts in the over-the-counter market like those used by bankrupt Enron Corp. and are accused of causing skyrocketing electricity and natural gas prices last year. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 14</i> 

Wholesale power and natural gas marketers were criticized before Congress on Wednesday for secret trading that leaves consumers and producers open to price manipulation. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Spencer Swartz, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14 (Reuters)</i> 

The collapse of energy giant Enron Corp. has triggered a tough new conservatism among wholesale energy traders, who are grilling everyone they do business with about their credit. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steven Oberbeck, The Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 12</i> 

Don Cash supervised the growth of Questar Corp. from a small Utah-based utility known as Mountain Fuel Supply Co. into a regional oil and natural gas powerhouse. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Shira Kantor, MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 13, 2002 (Minnesota Daily, U-WIRE via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Answering the pleas of several area pollution-control groups, City Council members took steps Tuesday to make sure Minneapolis residents can breathe a little easier. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steve Jordon, Omaha World-Herald, Neb., Feb. 13</i> 

Omaha-based Northern Border Partners' stock price has dropped 11 percent since Friday after the company changed auditing firms and a financial rating agency said it may lower Northern's debt rating. 

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Williams Companies on Thursday said it would cut about $50 million of costs annually as the energy trader and pipeline operator overhauls its balance sheet amid fears it may have to assume $2.2 billion in debt from former subsidiary Williams Communications Group. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steven Oberbeck, The Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 14</i> 

Two years ago Questar Corp. was worried that tough Utah regulators and low oil and gas prices would stifle its future financial performance. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Bangkok Post, Thailand, Feb. 14</i> 

PTT Plc says it will set up three more natural gas affiliates to manage an investment programme worth 98.8 billion baht planned up to 2010. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Argentina, Feb 14, 2002 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Argentina's new 20% tax on hydrocarbon exports may affect Chilean gas distributors, who depend on their trans-Andean neighbor for 80% of their natural gas. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Feb 14, 2002 - Agence France-Presse</i> 

Russia sees a "gas alliance" with former Soviet republics in Central Asia as a "magic wand" that could help to combat the creeping US presence in the region as a result of the Afghan war, according to analysts. 

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