Pan American Energy finds oil reserve in Argentina

Pan American Energy finds oil reserve in Argentina
Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:06pm GMT

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Pan American Energy has discovered an oil reserve in southern Argentina in one of the biggest such finds of recent years in the energy-hungry country, a provincial governor said on Saturday.

Buenos Aires-based Pan American, which is controlled by BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research), is Argentina's second-biggest oil producer and it found the new reserve in the Patagonian province of Chubut.

"An oil reserve has been discovered in the Escalante basin that's twice as big as what Chubut has produced to date," said Chubut Gov. Mario Das Neves in a statement posted on the provincial government Web site www.chubut.gov.ar.

"By 2007, all the companies produced 60 million barrels, and this reserve ... represents almost double what they produce," he added

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Argentina's 'disappeared' honored through poetry
By Bill Cormier
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Article Launched: 01/27/2008 02:58:12 AM PST

Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship -- tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent -- are gaining a voice through poetry.

A new book, "Poesia Diaria" ("Everyday Poetry"), tells the victims' story through the memories and verse of families who lost sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives. It comes as Argentines re-examine their country's dark past and push for trials of those who committed human rights abuses during the 1976-1983 junta.

For years, newspapers in this South American nation have published small notices, called "recordatorios" in Spanish, on the anniversaries of disappearances: poems and messages to the dead that Virginia Giannoni, the book's editor, said chilled her to the bone.

"To find such intimate letters published in a public space is so jarring," Giannoni said. "Many of these are beautiful texts that give voice to deep feelings. They express a need not only to remember family members, friends and colleagues who have been made to 'disappear,' but to bear witness to their lives."
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Nearly 13,000 people are officially listed as dead or missing from the junta's so-called Dirty War against dissent, though human rights groups put the toll at nearly 30,000 victims.

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