51.   Pakistan Petroleum says the reduced output was caused in part because of a reallocation of resources from Sui to two newly developed gas fields.

52.   A fire broke out in a gas field in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, forcing hundreds of workers and local residents to flee the area, officials said.

53.   A rift between BHP and U.S.-based Phillips Petroleum is delaying their joint development of the massive Bayu-Undan gas fields in the Timor Sea off Darwin.

54.   A similar joint gas exploration program is under way in the Sakha gas field in eastern Siberia.

55.   Among these projects were the Kadinwari gas field in Pakistan and the Yacheng gas field in the South China Sea.

56.   An international consortium of oil companies signed a production sharing agreement Tuesday in Baku to develop the Shakh-Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan.

57.   Bautista added the idea of establishing a chemical facilities near the gas field is expected to attract downstream industries.

58.   Brian Marcotte, president of Unocal Thailand, said the main investment would be for development of the Pailin gas field.

59.   British Petroleum and Statoil of Norway announced Tuesday that they have discovered a third significant offshore gas field, near two they discovered a year ago.

60.   British Petroleum discovered two large gas fields farther from shore last September.