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1. "The same day that the merger between Exxon and Mobil, the largest industrial merger in history , was approved by the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC moved to block the merger between BP Amoco and Arco . Apparently, that deal will result in higher gas prices in California and the West, while the Exxon-Mobil deal will merely result in the creation of the third-largest company in the world."
Six "senior employees" of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System wrote to Sir John Browne, the chief executive of BP Amoco, and to three U.S. congressmen, warning of an imminent threat to human life and the Alaskan environment from irresponsible oil operations there, the paper said in its main front-page story.
Things don't look as rosy for the BP Amoco's proposed $29 billion purchase of Atlantic Richfield.
The Financial Times (which led Monday with the news that BP Amoco, the United Kingdom's largest company, was about to take over Atlantic Richfield of the United States in an all-stock deal worth $25 billion) carried a front-page headline "America's illusions crash with downed stealth" and said that TV images of the wreckage have shattered "the illusion enjoyed by Americans for years that the US military's technologically superlative weaponry meant it could destroy unseen enemies with little or no danger to American life or property."
BP Amoco owns 50 percent of Alyeska, the company that operates both the pipeline and the Valdez oil terminal near where the huge tanker Exxon Valdez crashed on a reef in 1989, spewing millions of gallons of heavy crude into Prince William Sound.
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