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Byline: NORVAL SCOTT CALGARY -- Long-held speculation that China is seeking to buy Canadian oil and gas companies resurfaced yesterday, as a Chinese newspaper reported that China National Offshore Oil [...]

Byline: CP Talisman Energy Inc. says it has begun production from its Duart field in the North Sea about two months ahead of schedule. Talisman said yesterday initial production rates [...]

Byline: Andrew Allentuck At the leading edge of this branch of the electronic revolution is the network-based program SmartCatalog, developed by Vicom Multimedia Inc. of Calgary. A catalogue development program [...]

Today, a trial begins in Toronto to settle a Prozac patent dispute between three Canadian generic drug companies and Eli Lilly Canada.Royal LePage holds its annual residential housing market survey [...]

Tough-talkin' Texan Gulf Canada chief J. P. Bryan is uncharacteristically coy about what $1-billion acquisition may -- or may not -- be in the works for the Calgary-based oil company, [...]

Byline: Terrence Belford 'There's no question they've become a very popular investment product,' says David Christianson, a financial planner with Macdonald Shymko and Co. of Winnipeg. 'For someone in the [...]

Byline: Brent Jang Alberta Bureau CALGARY -- Several Canadian oil companies with foreign operations are expected to report strong second-quarter profits, raising the profile of a group of globetrotters that [...]

Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Corn futures saw their biggest one-day price jump in 22 years yesterday after an Agriculture Department report showed record prices have not deterred demand [...]

CALGARY -- The National Energy Board says the Canadian government has accepted the Joint Review Panel Report and recommendations on the Express Pipeline Project. The oil transmission line would run [...]

Amoco Canada Petroleum plans to sell its stake in Crestar Energy Inc. to fulfill a pledge it made to Ottawa in 1988, following its takeover of Dome Petroleum. Page B1 [...]

Major financial institutions have agreed to settle complaints by opening up their Interac electronic banking network to new players, including retailers. Page A1 CIBC Canadian Equity Fund at Nov. 30 [...]

Advanced Information Technologies Corp. of Nepean, Ont., had a nice business making automated passport readers and air traffic simulators. The challenge was how to diversify without straying too far from [...]

Byline: ANDREW BELL BY ANDREW BELL Investment Reporter Ouch! Investors who piled into a Nigerian oil play at up to $6 earlier this month are licking their wounds. Shares in [...]

$4, down 35 cents Another oil and gas company - this one a junior - didn't have quite as good a day as PanCanadian. Investors bailed out of Calgary-based Abacan [...]

Brooke Wade transformed an obscure oil and gas company into Methanex, the world's top methanol producer. Now on his own, he has an encore performance in mind: to build a [...]

Five auto companies have agreed to fix defective seatbelts for free in the biggest auto recall yet in Canada. Page A1 Suncor Inc.'s U.S. parent is selling its entire majority [...]

Paderno Cookware of Charlottetown produced pots that were much loved by cooks, but the company needed a manufacturing and marketing overhaul to survive. Enter Jim Casey, a former public servant [...]

Quebec's liquor board wants to curb the sale of smuggled booze with 20- per-cent price cuts, but the province says its too soon to take such action. Page B1 Northrop [...]

Raj Bahl and his brother Amit went into business with another pair of brothers, Ash and Prashant Modha, as university students in the mid-1980s. Their Winnipeg sportswear company, Mondetta Clothing, [...]

Bow Valley Energy Inc. of Calgary used to be a place where information was jealously hoarded. Then new managers overhauled the computer systems, reducing costs and allowing freer flow of [...]

Byline: CATHRYN MOTHERWELL Calgary AB -- BY CATHRYN MOTHERWELL Alberta Bureau CALGARY Up until June of this year, Cabre Exploration Ltd. had no intention of making any foreign investments. Oil [...]

Byline: ELLEN ROSEMAN Toronto ONT -- BY ELLEN ROSEMAN Money Editor Toronto AS chairman of CT Investment Counsel Inc., John Mulvihill manages equity funds for Canada Trust Co., the country's [...]

Byline: BEV CLINE BY BEV CLINE Special to The Globe and Mail FORGET about flying the family off to Tahiti with the frequent-flier points you've racked up as an executive [...]

Inverness Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary plans to redeem its 7-per-cent convertible debentures due May 31, 1997. The redemption date is Oct. 14. Caxton Corp. and Donald Sussman, insiders of the [...]

Despite a measure of confusion in the computer marketplace, the shift is on toward open systems: hardware and software based on common technical standards. Pages C1-C8 SUMMARY THE CHANGE PAGE [...]

Byline: HOWARD SOLOMON BY HOWARD SOLOMON Special to The Globe and Mail Regina could be excused for thinking it's the king of the hill these days. As in McCallum Hill [...]

Drilling activity across Canada slumped to its lowest level in 16 years in 1991 and another decline is developing this year, the Canadian Petroleum Association says. The oil and gas [...]

Ontario is selling its stake in oil producer Suncor Inc. Taxpayers are expected to lose hundreds of millions of dollars on the ill-fated investment, made during the energy crisis in [...]

Industrial Growth Fund says it holds a 5.1-per-cent stake in Numac Oil & Gas Ltd. of Edmonton. The mutual fund told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it holds [...]

Last year was one of the worst for gas well completions since 1975, according to statistics compiled by the Daily Oil Bulletin. The drilling industry completed 1,791 gas wells in [...]

Byline: CATHRYN MOTHERWELL Calgary AB -- BY CATHRYN MOTHERWELL Alberta Bureau CALGARY The Canadian oil and gas exploration and development industry faces a dire future of continued losses and layoffs, [...]

Transport Minister Jean Corbeil says the Canadian Coast Guard will charter the Gulf Canada Resources Ltd.'s icebreaker, MV Terry Fox, for two years of work in the Gulf of St. [...]

An exploratory well drilled a few years ago near the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reveals the potential for a large cache of oil and gas, according to [...]

Nova Corp. has moved a step closer to its restructuring, designating Ted Newall to run what will become the chemical operations and Dick Haskayne to head the pipeline compnay. Page [...]

Recent statements by Lavalin have aroused the interest of the Quebec Securities Commission, which entered the fray a day after bankers effectively seized control of its Kemtec unit. Page B1 [...]

6 months to June 30, 1991 Year ago Revenue $15,294,000^$17,055,000 Cash flow 6,625,000^6,273,000 Net profit 1,153,000^1,614,000 Average shares 18,770,130^16,952,330 Cash flow'share 0.35^0.37 Net profit'share 0.06^0.10 3 months to June 30, [...]

The Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board says has it approved a request by BP Resources Canada Ltd., a unit of BP Canada Inc. of Calgary, to drill a $30-million well on [...]

Byline: MARGARET PHILP Paris FRANCE -- BY MARGARET PHILP The Globe and Mail Paris BERNARD Isautier didn't stay out of the limelight for long. The former head of Polysar Energy [...]

An organization that represents small energy companies is pleading for a speed-up in pipeline projects so the Canadian petroleum industry can recover from poor oil prices by increasing exports of [...]

Prairie Industrial Chemicals Inc. has cancelled plans for a $250,000 chlorine-packaging plant at Davidson, Sask., after running into strong opposition from residents who wanted nothing to do with the toxic [...]

Panarctic Oils Ltd. of Calgary says Shell Canada Resources Ltd., a unit of Shell Canada Ltd. of Calgary, will have a 25 per cent participation in the Panarctic et al [...]

The Swiss Federal Council, the country's supreme executive authority, has given the green light for the delivery of documents requested by the United States in connection with the Santa Fe [...]

Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. of Toronto reported on zones tested in the exploratory West Venture C-62 well near Sable Island, off Nova Scotia. One zone tested gas, two tested mostly [...]

A major natural gas forecasting group has reduced its estimate of U.S. supplies, largely because of poorer-than- expected results from exploratory drilling in three western states. The Potential Gas Committee, [...]

Amoco Production Co., a unit of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Chicago, says two oil discoveries on Eugene Island block 85 have resulted in plans to install a four-pile production [...]

Federal Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens told the House of Commons that Chevron Corp. of San Francisco is negotiating with 'at least one Canadian buyer' interested in purchasing Chevron's 60 per [...]

Ocelot Industries Ltd. of Calgary will start construction of a $65-million ammonia plant at Kitimat in northwestern British Columbia by the summer, the company says. The plant, with capacity of [...]

GULF RESTRUCTURING SET After having been kept in suspense for more than five months, shareholders of Gulf Canada Ltd. may find out next week what the Reichmann family of Toronto [...]

Directors of Seagram Co. Ltd. have voted to withdraw a proposed resolution authorizing a new class of shares with 10 votes but entitled to lesser dividends than the company's single-vote [...]

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 1,300 for the first time in its history as falling U.S. interest rates spurred a buying spree on Wall Street. Page B20 PICKENS [...]