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CHEVRON-TEXACO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHEVRONTEXACO is donating US$5 million to a public-private partnership supporting small businesses in oil-rich but war-devastated Angola. The UN Development Programme is granting US$1 million, and other donors US$4 million. The Angola Enterprise Fund will focus on training, job creation and credit access.…
SRI LANKA STORAGE
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LANKA IOC Private Ltd. is to create a US$38 million Sri Lankan joint venture with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, to take over the corporation’s existing storage assets and the construction and operation of new oil terminals at Muturajawela and Katunayake International Airport.…
SOYBEANS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE USA’S United Soyabean Board has launched a campaign to persuade American farmers to use soya-based bio-diesel. It wants 90 per cent of farms to burn the fuel, up from 23 per cent today, boosting the number of retailers selling all kind of bio-diesel.…
MALAYSIA-INDONESIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA has been awarded control of part of the Celebes Sea by the International Court of Justice, enabling it to control local oil and gas prospecting. The area surrounds the islands of Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan, off Borneo, which had also been claimed by Indonesia.…
IMPERIAL OIL
BY MONICA DOBIE
IMPERIAL Oil Ltd. is pressing Canada’s federal government to fast-track regulatory procedures to speed its construction of a Mackenzie delta pipeline, while support dwindles in Washington for subsidising the competing Alaskan pipeline project. The Toronto-based company said it wants Arctic gas to start flowing by 2007.…
GENERAL EU ROUND-UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT on legislation lowering the maximum level of sulphur content in European Union (EU) diesel and petrol to 10 ppm has been struck by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. They agreed these low sulphur fuels must be available throughout the EU from January 1, 2005, and mandatory from January 1, 2009.…
EASTERN EUROPE THINK PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WE are not inclined to disagree with those who say the enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 countries in 2004 is to be done on terms much less damaging to present EU farmers, and conversely much less favourable to incoming farmers, than seemed probable a year ago.…
CHILE V ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, launching formal talks with Chile over Santiago’s imposition of 14 per cent temporary safeguard duties on fructose. Argentina claims that Chile broke the WTO’s GATT agreement by imposing the duties.…
HONEY CARE AFRICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…
CASHEW PRICES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN cashew nut processors are expecting 2001 and 2002s’ glut in supplies of the confectionary ingredient to be slowed, with prices rising above the US$1.70-1.90 a pound of the past 24 months. Pankaj Sampat of Samsons Trading Co said he expects “balance” to return to the market.…