In 1995 the federal government decreed so-called Order 58-R, which set the volume of oil exports and obligated the Moscow Oil Refinery to build a factory for processing polypropylene-based chemicals, financed by petroleum revenues over a ten-year period.

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During the 1974 Mideast oil crisis, the American engineer Hewitt Crane, then working at S.R.

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That seems to have played out more in the House than the Senate: earlier in the month, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH) indicated that he was not opposed to eliminating some tax breaks for big oil companies.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Wednesday that Democrats must allow Republicans to offer amendments that would increase domestic oil production.

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