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NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- The price for a barrel of crude oil added 38 cents Friday, settling at $104.93 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Traders turned aside concerns over European debt and slower-than-expected U.S. growth to send prices higher.
Natural gas closed up, adding 0.063 cents to end the session at $2.187 per million British thermal units.
Home heating oil lost 0.0185 cent, closing at $3.1767 per gallon.
Gasoline closed at $3.1968 a gallon, up 0.0135 cent.
At the pump, the national average price of unleaded gasoline dropped to $3.826 per gallon Friday from Thursday's $3.83, AAA said.
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ERBIL, Iraq, June 19 (UPI) --
Iraq's Kurds have consolidated their growing energy sector with Chevron Corp. securing a third exploration block in the semiautonomous northern region that increasingly operates as a de facto independent state and France's Total buying a majority stake in another.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 19 (UPI) --
Britain's BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defense company, reportedly expects to wrap up a price deal with Saudi Arabia for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets after two years of tortuous negotiations.
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