[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 13968]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5707]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Biztech for Energy (``BizTech'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 22, 2000, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), BizTech for Energy 
(``BizTech'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the 
venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the 
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) 
of the Act, the identities of the parties are Crawley Petroleum 
Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK; Schlumberger Geoquest, Austin, TX; Oil 
India Limited, Duliajan, Assam, INDIA; Phillips Petroleum Co., 
Bellaire, TX; Quillion Inc., Houston, TX; Tobin International Ltd., 
Houston, TX; enertia-software.com, Midland, TX; NetworkOil, Inc., 
Houston, TX; Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX; Microsoft, 
Houston, TX; PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Houston, TX; Oracle 
Corporation, Houston, TX; Chevron Information Technology Co., Houston, 
TX; SAP America, Inc., Houston, TX; Environmental Systems Research 
Institute, Redlands, CA: TietoEnator, Sandnes, NORWAY; Merrick Systems, 
Inc., Houston, TX; INT, Houston, TX; POSC, Houston, TX; Novistar, Inc., 
Englewood, CO; and Seismic Micro-Technology, Houston, TX. The nature 
and objectives of the venture are to develop and publish standards to 
facilitate communication and operations within a corporation engaged in 
the energy business and standards to facilitate communications among 
such corporations and their external vendors. The development of such 
standards will increase the efficiency of corporations in the energy 
business. In addition, it will allow corporations to have access to and 
utilize publicly available data in developing strategic plans and other 
goals for future research and operations.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-5707 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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