71.   Fujimori said talks with the Royal Dutch-Shell company to develop the Camisea gas field in the southern Peruvian jungle were progressing favorably.

72.   Halliburton had a stake in a gas field off the Bangladesh coast but was struggling with the state oil company to begin tapping it.

73.   He said the agreement could stop plans to build two controversial natural gas power plants supplied from offshore gas fields.

74.   He said recent reservoir studies have proved the new gas quantities, making the field by far the largest single gas field in the world.

75.   He said the gas fields could begin full production in nine months.

76.   He said the two countries agreed to accelerate cooperation in developing medium-size passenger airplanes, nuclear energy and Russian gas fields.

77.   In Aceh province, a small bomb exploded at a gas field operated by Exxon Mobil Corp., a local military spokesman said.

78.   Indonesia initially said it would still be able to honor its supply contracts with Japan and South Korea by tapping gas fields in other parts of the country.

79.   Iran said Thursday that production from an offshore gas field shared with Oman would begin in less than three years, Tehran radio reported.

80.   It handled the development of the giant offshore South Pars gas field in the Gulf.