He wanted the contract to carry Reliance Petroleum's crude oil, but the billionaire controlling owner Mukesh Ambani told him that the railways were just too expensive and he was using the pipelines of his competitors at a 10% discount on IR's price.

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But in May 2006 Ecuador seized the fields of Occidental Petroleum, claiming that the company had violated its operating contract.

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Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed its first-ever production sharing contract for shale gas in China with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

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Punj Lloyd got its first overseas break as a sub-contractor to PT Trihasra Bimanusa Tunggal, an Indonesian firm with Suharto family ties that had the contract to build a 130-mile pipeline for Pertamina, the state-owned petroleum firm.

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