"We will come up with a vehicle [for addressing the Iranians], I am quite certain of it," the chief US diplomat said at a news conference. "If it takes a little longer, I'm really not concerned about that."
-US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice said Wednesday in reference to the current ongoing nuclear crisis with Iran.
 
"In the past one year we have stepped up talks as we find encouraging response from Indian oil companies,"
- a senior KPC official said Thursday in reference to talks with Indian refiners over a possible equity stake in either an existing or new refeinery.
 
"TOCOM's energy futures opened lower across the board, pressured by the retreat in the front-month NYMEX crude futures Wednesday," Tatsuo Kageyama, analyst at Kanetsu Asset Management said in reference to the fall in benchmark light sweet crude oil.
 
"These slightly bullish moves for crude will likely be offset by slightly weaker product demand growth,"
Investment bank UBS said in reference to the US stock report Wednesday which showed a 1.3 million barrel drawdown in stocks.

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