He owns his own drilling rigs, pipelines and gas-processing plants, and he is convinced that building a solid relationship with Pemex now will pay off if Mexican politicians finally rationalize an irrational system.

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But the gas-seals would be perfect if the pistons were liquid rather than solid.

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New York s HESS CORP. (HES, 59) is a solid second-tier integrated oil-and-gas firm with scores of gas stations across the eastern U.S. It s got 1.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent reserves (versus 17.2 billion at Exxon).

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Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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