* Project designed to raise oil extraction rates * But red tape, cost disputes slow it down * Some mature fields already suffering from lack of water * Project may not now be enough, even if completed * Some oil majors now building own facilities By Rania El Gamal
Read moreEDINBURGH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scottish support for independence rose one percentage point to 48 percent, a Survation poll for the Scottish Daily Mail showed on Tuesday. The poll showed Scottish support for staying in the United Kingdom on 52 percent, excluding undecided voters, the newspap
Read moreEDINBURGH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scottish support for independence has risen one percentage point to 48 percent, an Opinium poll for the Daily Telegraph newspaper showed on Tuesday. The poll showed Scottish support for staying in the United Kingdom on 52 percent, down from 53 percent from its
Read moreLONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Support for independence in Scotland has risen three percentage points to 48 percent, an ICM poll for the Scotsman newspaper showed on Tuesday, two days before a referendum on whether Scotland should split from the United Kingdom. The poll showed support among Sc
Read moreBAKU, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's oil exports fell 1.8 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2014, a source at the State Statistics Committee said on Tuesday, driven by declines at fields operated by BP. The committee source said Azerbaijan exported 22.788 million tonnes of
Read more* London pledges Scotland health spending powers * Nationalist response: Scots are not daft; why not before? * PM Cameron warns a breakaway vote would be irreversible * Salmond: Scotland's future should be in Scotland's hands * Opinion polls expected on final day of campai
Read moreLONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - BP will cut around 275 staff and contractor jobs in its Alaska operations in early 2015 following the sale of its interests in four oil fields in the North Slope area, it said on Tuesday. BP, one of the largest oil producers in Alaska, last April announced the sa
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