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Chad: Oil companies kicked out

Written byAndrew Heavens
Posted 28 August 2006 13:42 GMT

“It's not often that one gets to hear a government telling an oil multinational to get out” wrote Chippla's Weblog – Thoughts on Issues after Chad took the unprecedented decision to eject ChevronTexaco (of the US) and Petronas (of Malaysia) for alledgedly failing to pay tax.

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