The FINANCIAL -- NV200, Nissan's global all new small van has been awarded the International Van of the Year (IVoY) 2010 by a jury made of 23 specialized European journalists representing a readership of more than half a million owners of commercial vehicles.

The FINANCIAL -- Shell Chemicals Limited has announced the successful start-up of its new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) unit at the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore.

The FINANCIAL -- ExxonMobil2 Production Company received a 2009 Continuing Excellence award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under its Natural Gas STAR Program.3

The FINANCIAL -- Timed to coincide with the sales launch in Germany, the museum of Dr. ING . h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is also set to launch the latest high performance sports car from Zuffenhausen: from November 21 to 29, 2009, interested parties can come and see the new 911 Turbo in an exhibition alongside its predecessors.

The FINANCIAL -- The Mercedes E-Class wins the coveted "EuroCarBody Award 2009". At EuroCarBody, the world's largest car body benchmarking conference, a jury made up of about 400 conference delegates and board members voted the E-Class as the car with the best bodyshell.

The FINANCIAL -- BP on November 16 confirmed that an appraisal well to test a western extension of the Kaskida field has confirmed oil in Lower Tertiary reservoirs five miles to the west of the Kaskida discovery well.

The FINANCIAL -- According to Ria Novosti, Russia's crude oil output (including gas condensate), expanded 0.8%, year-on-year in January-October 2009 to 410 million metric tons (3 billion barrels), the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on November 17.

The FINANCIAL -- In the context of the economic slowdown and government incentives to support the auto market, Chinese new car buyers have become more discerning over the past two years, and have continuously raised their demand level when it comes to new car purchases.

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, gas consumption in Europe will fall a record 5-7% in 2009, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said on November 17.