By consolidating GOM operations, ChevronTexaco will be able to reduce operating costs while leveraging Unocal's proprietary geologic data.

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Under procedures laid out in Annex II of the treaty, the petitioning party submits geologic data and makes its case for expansion before a LOST body called the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which then makes its determination as to the claim.

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Each well drilled, whether a hit or a miss, a discovery or a dry hole, adds to the geologic knowledge the company has with which to interpret its now vast array of seismic data.

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Even if it does, it is not important because the observed warming, even the highest temperatures that can be found in the data, is well within the range of natural changes that have occurred over eons of geologic time.

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