Last year, Pemex had to abandon its second tender for ethanol to be used as a gasoline additive because the offers made were above the price the oil company was prepared to pay.

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Iraq's oil-marketing organisation left Kirkuk production out of its second sales tender, issued last week, in a sign that the central administration lacks confidence about how soon the pipeline can be restored.

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This year McIlroy won his second major, the PGA Championship in August, at the tender age if 23 -- slightly younger than when Woods won his second at the same event in 1999.

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