RUSSIA ORDERS FLARING REDUCTION

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RUSSIAN government has ordered the country's oil companies to slash their flaring of oil-production associated natural gas - using "up to 95%" of the by-product. President Dmitry Medvedev told the country's parliament: "No objections from the production companies should be accepted."

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