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COPYRIGHT 2006 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
An executive briefing on energy for Feb 28, 2006, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
OPPOSITION MOUNTS AGAINST EXXONMOBIL'S BID TO RUN CEPU BLOCK
JAKARTA - Opposition is growing in the House of Representatives to granting ExxonMobil the right to operate the Cepu oil block, which holds one of the Indonesia's largest oil reserves.
Most factions in the House Commission VI and VII, who held a joint meeting yesterday with the government, were strongly against naming the U.S. company as the operator of the Cepu block, in the border area of East Java and Central Java.
AUSTRALIA'S WOODSIDE FORCED TO STOP PROD'N AT NORTH WEST SHELF
PERTH - Woodside (ASX:WPL) has been forced to stop production at two of its operations north of Western Australia as a tropical cyclone batters the Pilbara region.
Category one tropical cyclone Emma is bearing down on Western Australia's Pilbara region packing winds of up to 105 kilometres per hour.
CHINA'S GUANGDONG PROVINCE MAY HOUSE OIL RESERVE BASES
BEIJING - Guangdong Province, China's economic powerhouse, may soon play host to new national oil reserve bases.
The central government has been assessing the plan to ease Guangdong's energy shortage, according to...
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