Mr. TERRY O'CONNOR (Oil Shale Program, Shell Oil Company): It's called the in-situ conversion process or the acronym, ICP.

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Last year AIG also sued ICP, alleging fraud caused losses that pushed the insurer to near bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg.

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ICP's Will Geddes says there is "no environment you can't go into where you can't provide a minimum level of security".

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The first round of the ICP was initiated in 1968, when the author joined the work, and involved 10 countries, including India, for 1970.

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The ICP should be a single page document that clearly defines your company and its value proposition, characteristics of your best customers and prospects, and who to contact for additional information.

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Part II looks at both China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that is being coordinated by the World Bank, the Regional Banks and Economic Commissions.

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The 2005 ICP round provides estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies and real product per capita for 150 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the size of these economies.

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Mr. O'CONNOR: The ICP technology involves drilling holes--vertical holes into the ground and inserting long electric heaters, which then gradually heat the rock over a long period of time, and over a long period of time--by that, I mean two or three or more years.

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