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  <title><![CDATA[Investors Love Rio: Why Foreign Companies Are Buying Into Brazil's Real Economy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Investing in Brazil&#039;s booming economy has turned another page as foreign companies, especially Japanese firms, move from putting money into the nation&#039;s financial industry to putting it into the real economy of South America&#039;s largest nation.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nebraska Landowners Sue Governor Over Keystone XL Pipeline Constitutionality]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Gas Prices Fall With Crude, But Still Too High: Oil Trade Group]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The American Petroleum Institute has again called on Washington to increase domestic production of oil on both federal and public lands, to help consumers by bringing gasoline prices down even further.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Coal Issue Catches Fire In Presidential Campaign]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is increasingly under fire this month for its policy on the nation&#039;s coal sector.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eaton Corp. To Buy Cooper Industries For $11.8 Billion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. (ETN) said Monday it would buy electrical equipment company Cooper Industries Plc for $11.8 billion to expand into the electric industry.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:04:12 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stocks Rally, China Hints At Stimulus: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The strain in this relationship between Germany and France was apparent Monday as finance ministers from both countries failed to resolve the question whether the euro zone would benefit from issuing joint European bonds. Berlin rejects the idea, stipulating that struggling economies need to clean up their messes before being given a reason not to.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Icahn's Stake In Texas Refiner CVR Now 80%]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Billionaire Carl Icahn raised his share in CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI) to 80 percent and is completing the replacement of the nine-member board of directors after winning the support of shareholders in the Texas-based refiner and marketer of transportation fuels.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cuba's Hope Of Energy Independence Suffers Blow As Repsol Drills Dry Hole]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Cuba&#039;s hope of cutting its energy dependence on Venezuela by developing new domestic sources of crude oil has suffered a blow -- the first in a series of exploratory offshore wells is a dry hole.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:17:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Former BP Engineer In Gulf Spill Probe Requests Lift On Travel Restrictions]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Kurt Mix, a former engineer for BP PLC who is accused of deleting hundreds of telling text messages about the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico because of the company&#039;s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, has asked a federal judge to allow him to travel freely while on bail.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[China, US Solar Industry React To Commerce Dept Imposing Tariffs On Chinese Solar Panels]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed hefty tariffs on Chinese solar panel imports, a move the Obama administration is saying comes as a response to uncompetitive Chinese export practices.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:19:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Oil Sheen Spotted Near Brazilian Offshore Oil Platform]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian naval authorities are investigating yet another oil sheen seen floating near a platform owned by state oil company Petrobras.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vermont Bans Hydraulic Fracturing, Becomes First State To Do So]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The state of Vermont became on Wednesday  the first in the United States to ban the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:06:22 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shell Joins Asian Co.'s in Huge Canadian Drilling Venture]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A coalition of companies has joined Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell in an unprecedented, landmark joint-venture to exploit natural gas resources in Western Canada.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chevron Shareholders Ask SEC To Investigate Company Disclosures On $18B Ecuador Judgment]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A group of Chevron Corp., shareholders has asked that the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate claims the oil major is not fully disclosing the effect that a multi-billion dollar environmental case in Ecuador would have on the company and its numerous stakeholders.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:35:17 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Europe Uneasiness Endures, China Frees Up Cash: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Political discord in Greece, voters punishing German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#039;s Christian Democrats, lower euro zone manufacturing output and China freeing up cash for lending all contributed to a global stocks slide as investors pursued the safe havens of government debt and the dollar.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:15:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Concho Resources Paying $3B For Three Rivers' Permian Basin Reserves]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE: CXO) will buy all of the oil and natural gas assets of Three Rivers Operating Company LLC for $1 billion in cash, increasing Concho&#039;s production by 7,000 barrels of oil a day, the company announced Sunday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:06:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carl Icahn To Reveal 'Significant' Stake In Troubled Chesapeake Energy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shareholder activist Carl Icahn is expected to disclose his acquisition of a significant piece of Oklahoma City-based natural gas company Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), which has seen shares tumble amid a federal inquiry, a securities class-action suit and near-record-low natural gas prices. Both parties have yet to publicly confirm the deal.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Concho To Pay $1B For Oil And Gas Assets In Permian Basin]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE: CXO) has agreed to acquire all the crude-oil and natural-gas assets of the Three Rivers Operating Co. and certain affiliated entities for $1 billion in cash, Concho announced Sunday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 23:57:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Qatar Sovereign Fund On Buying Spree: Royal Dutch Shell, Xstrata, Eni, Total]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is on an investment spree, bulking up its holdings in several major companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc (NYSE: RDS.A), Eni SpA (NYSE: E), and Xstrata PLC (London: XTA), and the sovereign fund has already taken a holding Total SA (NYSE: TOT) and is pursuing avenues to invest in Glencore International Plc (London: GLEN), sources reported Friday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:54:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Putin Aide Leaving Cabinet  To Join Board Of State Oil And Gas Company]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin has recommended Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin for a seat on the board of the state oil and gas holding company while announcing that Sechin will leave the Cabinet Sunday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:48:37 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Respite From Euro Jitters, US Jobs Bolster Stocks: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[New Labor Department data suggests a strong start to jobs growth in January may not get wiped out by negative growth heading into the third quarter.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shale Gas Explorer Caudrilla to Start Fracking in UK]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shale gas explorer Cuadrilla has found more natural gas in the UK shale rocks than in Iraq.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 08:54:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Centrica to Boost Upstream UK Oil and Gas Production by 25 Percent]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Centrica holds a position of the third biggest producer of gas in the Britain continental shelf and plans to increase upstream UK gas and oil production by over 25 percent during the current year.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:15 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Euro Zone Uncertainties Sink In: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Post-election uncertainty in Greece pushed investors away from stocks and commodities, lowering German and U.S. bond yields and eroding the euro&#039;s value as investors sought the dollar. France&#039;s benchmark CAC 40 Index erased its Monday gains, which had confounded investors. The reality sank in a day late as euro zone uncertainties that popped up over the weekend took root.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:05:52 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[After McClendon's Trades, Chesapeake Board Gave Its Blessing: Reuters Exclusive]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In its latest employment contract with CEO Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake Energy Corp gave him permission to trade commodities for himself after he already had begun doing so.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Singapore's Temasek Investing $468M in US LNG Venture]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Singaporean sovereign-investment vehicle and RRJ Capital, a private equity fund run by former Temasek executive Richard Ong, will jointly invest about $468 million in Houston&#039;s Cheniere Energy Incorporated (Nyseamex: LNG), as Singapore pursues its goal of becoming an Asian hub for liquid natural gas (LNG).]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[BP Wins Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Settlement Approval]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[BP Plc. (NYSE: BP) won preliminary approval of its proposed $7.8 billion settlement of claims relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spain Demands Fair Price After Bolivia Seizes Electric Utility]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Spain’s chief economist said Wednesday Bolivia will “compensate Red Eléctrica Española the costs invested in the country’s electricity network” after the South American country announced it would expropriate the local unit of the Spanish utility, Transportadora de Electricidad S.A.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:44:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Inside Chesapeake, CEO McClendon Ran $200M Hedge Fund: Reuters Investigation]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Chesapeake Energy Corp., the No. 2 natural gas producer in the U.S., plunged Wednesday after a report that the CEO and co-founder secretly ran a hedge fund that traded in the same commodities that the Oklahoma City company produces.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[BG Group Raises LNG Profit Outlook, Targets 7% Annual Growth in Production Till 2020]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[According to Shore Capital, BG Group is likely to be the major British large-cap gaining from rising oil prices as integrated oil peers &#039;struggle for the same degree of leverage&#039; to the rising cost of crude.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336111/20120502/bg-group-plc-uk-earnings-lse-ftse100.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 07:58:39 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Fined $257M For Chinese Oil Spill]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Houston-based oil ang gas giant ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has been fined $257 million to settle charges brought by the Chinese government following a massive oil spill. The company&#039;s Chinese venture partner, CNOOC Ltd., was also fined, to the tune of $76 million.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:56:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Chip Sales Rose To $23.3B In March: SIA]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Global chip sales rose about 1.3 percent to $23.3 billion, a slight increase from February but down nearly 8 percent from last year, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335803/20120501/chips-semiconductor-apple-industrial.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:54:46 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chesapeake To Replace McClendon As Chairman]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Energy Corp will find an independent, non-executive chairman to replace Aubrey McClendon, who will retain his position as chief executive officer, the natural gas producer said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:12:46 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mitsui, Mitsubishi Buy Stake in Woodside's Browse LNG Project]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Woodside Petroleum Limited (AX: WPL) sold a 14.7 percent stake in its Browse liquid natural gas (LNG) development project for $2 billion to a Japanese joint venture operated by Mitsui & Company Limited and Mitsubishi Corporation, the Australian company announced Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:36:30 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[BP Earnings Fall As Gulf Spill Costs Continue To Weigh]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[BP Plc (BP.L) reported a bigger-than-expected profit drop on the back of a fall in production prompted by the need to sell oil fields to pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, raising concerns about the oil group&#039;s turnaround plan.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Shuts Louisiana Oil Pipeline After Leak]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corp has shut the 160,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) North Line crude oil pipeline in Louisiana after a leak spilled 1,900 barrels of crude oil in a rural area over the weekend, affecting a conduit that supplies the nation&#039;s third-largest refinery.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mergers, Acquisitions Increase: Sunoco, Delta, Payless Shoe]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Energy Transfer Partners Paying $5.3B For Sunoco, Which Soars 20%]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Energy Transfer Partners LP (NYSE: ETP) is buying Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) in a $5.3 billion cash and stock deal that will allow the Dallas-based natural gas company to expand into heavier hydrocarbons and acquire Sunoco&#039;s approximately 4,900 gas stations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[BP Set to Restructure Business Portfolios, Expects High Margin Production Ahead]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[British Petroleum Plc expects to divest assets of $38 billion by the end of 2013 as a part of group&#039;s decision to actively manage its business portfolios around the world, focusing on core activities and future growth.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/334932/20120430/british-petroleum-bp-plc-uk-refineries-earnings.htm</link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Industry Group Releases Suggestions For Natural Gas Development In Marcellus Shale]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Marcellus Shale Coalition Thursday released suggestions it hopes will standardize how the oil and natural gas industry approaches future drilling operations, including the use of the controversial practice of fracking.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333891/20120426/natural-gas-drilling-marcellus-shale-hydraulic-fracturing.htm</link>
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  <title><![CDATA[BP's $7.8 Billion Settlement Days Away From Preliminary Approval, U.S. Judge Says]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The first part in a saga of litigation and claims for damages following the BP 2010 Gulf oil spill is just days away from being finished.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333817/20120426/bp-settlement-court-halliburton-approval-gulf-coast.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:29:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil 1Q Earnings Fall As Output Slips]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corp, the world&#039;s largest publicly traded oil company, posted a lower first-quarter profit on Thursday as its oil and natural gas production slumped more than 5 percent, pushing its shares down 1.1 percent premarket.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333697/20120426/exxon-mobil-oil-gasoline-earnings.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:23:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chesapeake Energy To Halt CEO's Well Ownership Plan]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp said on Thursday it would halt a controversial program that gave company founder and chief executive Aubrey McClendon an ownership stake in its wells.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333649/20120426/chesapeake-mcclendon-ceo-well-ownership-natural-gas.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333649/20120426/chesapeake-mcclendon-ceo-well-ownership-natural-gas.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:08:59 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Brazilian Oil Major Petrobras Won't Invest More In Argentina As Government Seizes Energy Companies]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian oil company Petrobras said Wednesday it will focus on investing in and developing its domestic energy sources rather than immediately invest more in concessions in Argentina.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333337/20120425/oil-natural-gas-exploration-petrobras-repsol-spain.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333337/20120425/oil-natural-gas-exploration-petrobras-repsol-spain.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Raises Dividend 21%, Becomes World's Highest Payer]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) will increase its quarterly dividend 21 percent to become the largest corporate dividend payer, according to Standard & Poor&#039;s on Wednesday.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333336/20120425/exxon-mobil-corporation-xom-high-dividends.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333336/20120425/exxon-mobil-corporation-xom-high-dividends.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:18:31 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Warns Scotland Of 'Tremendous Damage' Of Wind Farms]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump fears that a wind farm off the shores of Scotland would harm the country&#039;s tourism industry ... and also his $1.2 billion golf course.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333259/20120425/donald-trump-scotland-wind-farm.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333259/20120425/donald-trump-scotland-wind-farm.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:15:23 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eni And Rosneft Join Forces To Search For Oil And Gas In Russian Arctic]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Italy&#039;s Eni and Russia&#039;s Rosneft announced on Wednesday a joint venture to search for oil and gas in the Russian Arctic, following a similar pact between ExxonMobil and the state-run oil firm.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333162/20120425/eni-rosneft-exploration-arctic-russia-italy.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333162/20120425/eni-rosneft-exploration-arctic-russia-italy.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:19:57 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gulf Shrimp Processors Ask Judge To Delay $7.8 Billion BP Settlement]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Gulf Coast shrimp processors are asking a federal judge to delay final approval of the $7.8 billion settlement between BP and third-party claimants over the 2010 Gulf oil spill.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332761/20120424/shrimp-gulf-trail-settlement-processors-association.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332761/20120424/shrimp-gulf-trail-settlement-processors-association.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:48:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Charges Ex-BP Engineer With Obstructing Spill Probe]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A former BP Plc engineer was arrested and charged on Tuesday with trying to destroy evidence related to how much oil was spilling from the company&#039;s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010, the U.S. Justice Department said.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332667/20120424/bp-oil-spill-gulf-mexico-horizon.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332667/20120424/bp-oil-spill-gulf-mexico-horizon.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:23:58 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nigerian Fuel Subsidy Fund 'Defrauded' Of $6 Billion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The fuel sector probe -- which will be discussed in a live televised parliamentary session -- uncovered a litany of abuses, including allegations that fifteen oil importers collected more than $300 million without delivering a single drop of oil.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332664/20120424/nigeria-oil-subsidy-fuel.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332664/20120424/nigeria-oil-subsidy-fuel.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:20:35 EDT</pubDate>
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