ENERGY
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Unocal in Geothermal Agreement: The Los Angeles-based company, the world’s largest developer of geothermal energy, has reached agreement with Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, to appraise and develop an area in northern Sumatra that could hold the energy equivalent of 300 million barrels of oil. Unocal will drill wells to bring steam and boiling water to the surface for use in making electricity.
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