Yahoo! News : Reuters - Russian and Belarus will sign a deal on gas prices before a midnight Sunday deadline, averting potential supply disruptions to Europe, a spokesman for Belarus’s prime minister told Reuters. (2006/12/31)
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Yahoo! News : AP - China, which is aggressively seeking overseas energy assets to fuel its booming economy, said Sunday that one of its biggest conglomerates has bought the Kazakhstan oil assets of a Canadian company for $1.91 billion. (2006/12/31)
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News24.com : Russia has edged closer to cutting gas supplies to neighbouring Belarus, prompting fears of energy disruptions in western Europe. (2006/12/31)
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Radio Free Europe : December 31, 2006 (RFE/RL) — Officials in Belarus were racing the clock tonight to clinch a deal to avert a halt in deliveries of natural gas from Russian state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom. (2006/12/31)
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Baltimoresun.com : La. retirees handed over savings to now-barred securities broker Like many co-workers, Bradley Simon had put in decades at the Exxon Mobil refinery, building up a stout 401(k) retirement account and enviable pension benefits. (2006/12/31)
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Yahoo! News : Reuters - Russia on Sunday was hours away from turning off gas to neighboring Belarus, with a possible knock-on effect to supplies to Western Europe, as talks to settle a pricing dispute dragged on with no breakthrough. (2006/12/31)
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Casper Star Tribune : WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are looking at whether Interior Department officials played favorites or took money from companies vying for big oil and gas contracts. (2006/12/31)
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SF Gate : In the Bay Area business world, a lot happened in 2006. Home sales fell, gas prices rose and Silicon Valley tried to tackle global warming. A stock-option scandal forced dozens of executives from office, and Hewlett-Packard got caught spying on… (2006/12/31)
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Baltimoresun.com : Church vigils put year in perspective, honor God ; Churches welcome new year through Watch Night vigils As 2006 draws to a close, revelers will gasp at the Inner Harbor fireworks, and partygoers will raise their glasses to toast the new year. But at … (2006/12/31)
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Though oil will average almost $70 per barrel in 2006, gasoline prices will remain under $3 gallon. The entire world learned a valuable lesson about the American consumer and gasoline prices - nobody wants to repeat that bout of lost …
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Payvand Iran News : Some 200 million barrels of crude oil can be extracted from Azar Oilfield in Anaran Block, deputy with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Exploration Directorate said in Tehran on Sunday. -MNA (2006/12/31)
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RIA Novosti : MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - A major fire at a large oil storage depot in the Tver Region in central Russia has been completely put out, an emergencies ministry spokesperson said Sunday. (2006/12/31)
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RIA Novosti : MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - Belarusian negotiators at current talks with Gazprom on Russian gas supplies to the ex-Soviet republic are attempting to raise issues that are not related to the gas sphere, a Gazprom spokesman said Sunday. (2006/12/31)
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