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Saturday
Lagniappe

Time Running Out for Energy in Mexico


Cantarell, Mexico's top oil field is declining rapidly

By Marcela Sanchez

Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel's warning to the Mexican Congress last week sounded ominous: If legislators did not approve reforms within the oil sector, the country would suffer a "severe energy crisis" within a decade. - story - previous stories

OIL PRICES:

OPEC Basket $118.95 05/15

Venezuelan Basket: $112.27 05/16

05/16 :BRENT IPE $126.34 NYMEX WTI-$126.29

05/16 :US$/VBOF:Parallel BsF 3.45 buy 3.60- sell

 

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HEADLINES

100 killed in new Nigeria pipeline inferno: Red Cross

AP

Fire men attempt to put water on flames at a burning village on the distant outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May. 15, 2008.

LAGOS
Petroleumworld.com, May 16, 2008- story

Interpol confirms authenticity
of captured FARC data

AFP/Interpol

This undated photo obtained from Interpol, shows Raul Reyes, second-in-command of the FARC Colombian guerrilla group, working on a laptop computer.

BOGOTA
Petroleumworld.com, May 16, 2008- story

Oil prices higher in Asian trade - story

Lagos pipeline blast site burns through the night - story

Files tying Venezuela to rebels not altered, report says - story

Curacao refinery to restart cat cracker next week - story

Ecopetrol projects petrochemical sales at 2.7 mln tpa by 2015 - story

Nigeria / Ecuador: Willbros Group Inc. agrees to pay $22 million penalty for FCPA violations - story

Pool narrows for Petroperu's Talara refinery rehab - story

US admiral reassures LatAm military on fleet deployment - story

Friction forecast at Latin America-EU summit - story

US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan - story

Oil prices dip; dozens killed in Nigerian pipeline blast - story

US seeks to pressure Iran, not give incentives: Pentagon - story

Gazprom to ship LNG to eastern Canada - story

US tightens sanctions on Belarus petrochemical group - story

Venezuelan links to FARC rebels 'highly disturbing': US - story

IMF chief says worst of financial crisis is over - story

Bush says nuclear Iran would be 'unforgivable' - story

Norway sees lower oil output but increased revenues - story

Saudi Arabia's Naimi sees Asian oil demand up 20 mil b/d by 2030 - story

SPR bill moves to White House; override of potential veto likely - story

ENAP, Methanex Petition Chile for E&P of Dorado-Riquelme Block - story

Petrobras postpones decision on buying Aruba refinery - story

Triple-digit crude prices pain oil majors, too - story

Previous stories

Sunday´s
Opinion

National And International Oil Companies:
Putting Relationships In Perspective

By Ibrahim Al-Muhanna - story - previous stories

Sunday's
Feature

Drive 1,000 Miles or Feed a Person
for a Year? The Biofuels Dilemma

John Lee / Aurora Select for TIME

A tiny sliver of transitional rain forest is surrounded by
hectares of soybean fields in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

By Stan Cox - story - previous stories

Saturday
Lagniappe

WSJ Further Exposes Chávez's Deep
Collaboration with FARC:
More From INTERPOL May15th!

FARC guerrilla commander Luis Edgar Devia Silva, better known
by his alias Raul Reyes with his computer.

By Pedro Miguel Burelli - story - previous stories

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As filed with the
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Commission on
October 7, 2005.

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