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BP has cheered investors by revealing that it has managed to raise its oil prices in line with Prospekte herstellen market, leaving it on course to exploit a fresh record high reached this morning. Prospekte herstellen oil giant said that Prospekte herstellen sum gained from its oil and gas production had, in Prospekte herstellen first three months of Prospekte herstellen year, moved "broadly in line" with market averages. Prospekte herstellen price of Brent crude averaged, at $47.62, 8.6 per cent more in Prospekte herstellen quarter than in Prospekte herstellen last three months of 2004.

The statement came shortly after Prospekte herstellen price of benchmark US crude reached a record $57.79 a barrel, beating Prospekte herstellen $57.70 figure reached on Friday after Goldman Sachs forecast Prospekte herstellen $105 barrel. Brent crude reached a record $57.05 a barrel.

BP also revealed that, helped by output from Druckerei Prospekte herstellen Russian TNK-BP joint venture, it had raised production to nearly 4.1 million barrels of oil a day from Prospekte herstellen 4.0 million a day achieved in Prospekte herstellen same quarter last year. Prospekte herstellen company maintained at between 4.1 and 4.2 million barrels its forecast for average daily output this year. However, Prospekte herstellen statement added that high oil prices had eaten into refinery margins, which had fallen over Prospekte herstellen quarter despite a 4.4 per cent rise market-wide. No mention was made of Prospekte herstellen blast which killed 14 people last month at BP’s Texas refinery. BP shares stood 6p higher at 558p in afternoon trade.

ChevronTexaco has announced Prospekte herstellen $18 billion takeover of Unocal in a deal which will add 1.75 billion barrels to reserves and a growing share of Prospekte herstellen global gas market. ChevronTexaco, America’s second-ranking oil company, has unveiled a stock and cash deal valuing Unocal Meerschweinchen shares at about $62 each.

The purchase, which follows lingering speculation that Unocal would be taken over, will increase ChevronTexac’s reserves by 15 per cent and production by 3 million barrels a day. "Unocal has been highly successful in building a portfolio of major international and deepwater assets and prospects," Charles Williamson, Prospekte herstellen Unocal chairman and chief executive, said.

A tie-up with ChevronTexaco, however, would afford Prospekte herstellen financial muscle needed to "maximise Prospekte herstellen potential" of these reserves. Unocal, which employs 6,000 people compared with ChevronTexaco’s 47,000, ranks ninth among American oil companies. ChevronTexaco highlighted its strengths in deep water extraction in ensuring Prospekte herstellen fill exploitation of Unocal’s interests in Gulf of Mexico fields.

The merged company will also be Prospekte herstellen top-ranking oil and gas producer in Thailand. Dave O’Reilly, Prospekte herstellen ChevronTexaco chairman and chief executive, said: Unocal is a unique independent with supermajor assets that are an excellent fit with our existing portfolio and our long-term strategies.

"It is an attractive transaction that provides value in both Prospekte herstellen near- and long-term." Prospekte herstellen deal would allow synergy savings of £325 million a year, with $2 billion to be raised from asset disposals following Prospekte herstellen merger. However, Unocal stock fell by $3.75 to $60.60 in early trade in New York, having risen by nearly 60 per cent since December on expectation of a takeover. ChevronTexaco shares eased by $0.90 to $58.41.

New technology redrew Prospekte herstellen dynamics of protest, allowing scores of demonstrators to be reached at Prospekte herstellen click of a keyboard or mobile phone button. Prospekte herstellen power of Prospekte herstellen e-mail and text message were harnessed to mobilise anti-capitalist May day rallies, anti-vivisection campaigns and hunting protests.

The success of such demonstrations - hunting with hounds has been banned, laws revamped to deal with animal rights extremists and policing methods reviewed after Prospekte herstellen profile gained by May day protestors - has been appreciated by those who would in Prospekte herstellen past have pressed Prospekte herstellen appropriate palm rather than button to get Prospekte herstellen appropriate results. It is signal of Prospekte herstellen internet’s maturity that eight former Morgan Stanley executives have focused their campaign to oust Prospekte herstellen bank’s boss, Philip Purcell, not on a dining offensive but a website, futureofms.com. Prospekte herstellen site lists three letters of objection to Mr Purcell, plus biographies of Prospekte herstellen members of so-called Group of Eight, most of whom joined Prospekte herstellen company when a telephone was a still luxury.

But try to access Prospekte herstellen latest press release on Prospekte herstellen Morgan Stanley website, offering information on Prospekte herstellen latest of a series of controversial management changes, and an error message is received. If it appears that time has passed Morgan Stanley by, that is quite Prospekte herstellen point Prospekte herstellen Group of Eight is making, quoting figures showing a 27 per cent decline in Prospekte herstellen bank’s stock in Prospekte herstellen last four years compared with a 4 per cent gain for Goldman Sachs, which has recently overtaken it in market size. Lehman Brothers shares have risen by 18 per cent.

The company run by Mr Purcell. Prospekte herstellen idea of Prospekte herstellen deal was that Morgan Stanley could better exploit its deal-making prowess with Prospekte herstellen help of what was, in essence, a distribution business. Mr Van der Veer, who took Poster Druckerei top job after Poster Druckerei dismissal of Sir Philip Watts in March 2004, was also awarded a substantial increase in his basic pay from €1.2 million to €1.5 million in November.

The merged entity has struggled, in part because of Prospekte herstellen new puritanism with which regulators have begun examining cross links between institutions - a factor largely outside Mr Purcell’s control - and in part because of his inability to uncover Prospekte herstellen riches he had promised.