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		<title><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Thank you, sir.  Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press *, followed by 1 on your touchtone telephone.  If your question has been answered, or you wish to withdraw your question, please press * followed by a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:54:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Loses $7 Billion on LUKOIL Stake in 2008]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  	The Company: ConocoPhillips, an integrated energy company with interests around the world.  	The Filing: FORM 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 29, 2008.  	The Finding: The 2006 acquisition of a 20 percent stake in LUKOIL by ConocoPhillips, initially applauded by energy analysts because it increased...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lukoil invests 1.35 billion euros in Italian refinery ERG: company]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILAN AFP &#8212; Russian oil producer Lukoil is to pay 1.35 billion euros (2.1 billion dollars) to buy 49 percent of a refinery owned by Italian group ERG, ERG announced on Tuesday.  The acquisition gives Lukoil vital access to downstream refining capacity in Europe, a key objective for Russian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lukoil to continue in Iran despite sanctions problems]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW AFP &#8212; Lukoil, the biggest Russian oil company, said Tuesday it will continue to work in Iran despite the problems caused by US-inspired sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear development programme.  The Anaran oil project "will continue, development is under way," Lukoil spokesman Vladimir Simakov told AFP in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russian oil boss 'concerned' at growing state role]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW AFP &#8212; The head of Russian energy major Lukoil voiced "concern" Thursday at the growing clout of state-controlled energy companies in a rare sign of open discontent in the industry.  "The strengthening of state companies is of concern to us. We don't want a division between state and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russian oil giant Lukoil reports 34 percent spike in net earnings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW AFP &#8212; Russia's leading oil producer Lukoil reported a 34 percent spike in net earnings over the first nine months of 2006 from the same period in 2005, that it attributed to higher crude prices and increased production. Net profit in the January to September period came to 6.442...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russian environment agency seeks tax checks on Lukoil]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW AFP &#8212; Russia's environmental monitoring agency has called for checks on taxes and fees on all licences owned by Lukoil, the country's biggest oil producer, a senior official told AFP. "We are interested in their payments. We have information that they are not paying," said Oleg Mitvol, deputy head...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nelson Resources extends bid talks with Russia's Lukoil]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Nelson Resources said it has extended talks with Lukoil over the Russian oil giant's proposed 2.0-billion-dollar (1.67-billion-euro) cash bid for the group.  Bermuda-based Nelson Resources, which owns oil and gas producing fields in Kazakhstan, had initially sought to reach an agreement with Lukoil by October 12....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The capital market sanctions folly: a lesson in diplomatic dopiness]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2633/is_1_19/ai_n15787130]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The granting or withholding of trade "privileges" has taken on great metaphorical meaning since the end of the Cold War. America, the global power of international commerce and finance, bestows free trade agreements on nations that aid her in the war on terrorism. (Pakistan was so blessed by the Bush...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oil and Gas Briefs Column.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter J. Cooper, AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News    May 5--LUKOIL WILL NOT CEDE IRAQ OILFIELD: Russian oil major Lukoil  has  said under no circumstances will it cede the Iraqi oilfield of West  Qurna-2,  reported AFP....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yukos issues convertible bonds in record year for Russia.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Yasmine Chinwala    Yukos, the oil company, has launched a $350m ([euro]347m)  convertible bond, following the largest Russian equity offering ever in  Lukoil by the government last week and a record year for Russian equity  and equity-linked deals.UBS Warburg is the sole bookrunner on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Transparency Clouds Future of `Bad Actors']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn't often that a corporate decision not to bring a stock offering to market generates news. So it was no great surprise that the Financial Times of London gave only a few paragraphs to the announcement by the Russian oil conglomerate, Lukoil, that it would forego its expected offer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[THE WHITE HOUSE: Press briefing on Caspian Sea di diplomacy and the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-19 November 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press  Secretary -- Press briefing by Senior Administration Official on Caspian  Sea diplomacy and the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS  LTD    RDATE:171199 9:13 P.M. L    Conrad International Hotel Istanbul, Turkey  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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