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 <description>Shell to acquire Hess Corporation's entire upstream portfolio in Gabon and its interest in the Clair field, which lies in British waters west of the Shetland Islands</description>
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 <title>Andrei Galaev appointed Sakhalin Energy CEO</title> 
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