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Chevron oil deal gets OK

Chevron Corp.'s $46.6 billion purchase of Texaco Inc. to form the world's fourth-largest investor-owned oil company was unanimously approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Texaco agreed to sell six U.S. refineries and sever ties with 14,000 retail gasoline stations that in 1998 were placed in two joint ventures with Royal Dutch / Shell Group and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. These assets will be placed in a trust if Texaco and Shell can't agree on a price Shell will pay for the Texaco stakes ...

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