Perhaps the joint ventures will be with a major Chinese or Indian chemical or fertilizer manufacturer.

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Chemical and fertilizer manufacturers like Dow and Potash, for example, use gas as a fuel and a feedstock.

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Why, he asks, shouldn't chemical or fertilizer companies, long on the sidelines of the world's trading pits, easily buy and sell contracts to manage risk, much as farmers do?

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The reality of abundant natural gas is also a blessing for Texas and the US in the manufacturing sector of the economy, where natural gas is used as a feedstock in all manner of chemical, fertilizer, plastics and other manufacturing processes.

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Fortune of one of America's richest men down more than 25% in past 6 months as fertilizer, oil, chemical markets all collapsed.

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No chemical fertilizers are used, just organic fertilizer sent straight from the gardens at Castel Gandolfo.

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Today company has stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, fibers and polymers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology.

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The West Fertilizer Co. said it had 54, 000 pounds of the chemical, The Dallas Morning News reported.

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To disprove this contention, it would seem sufficient to establish that chemical and biological production facilities continued to exist, perhaps in the form of advanced fertilizer or pharmaceutical plants which, thanks to the dual-use nature of their technologies, would allow them readily to be used for weapons purposes.

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