[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 14486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06083]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project 
No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 18, 2016, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petroleum Environmental 
Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare 
Combustion Efficiency (``PERF Project No. 2014-10'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the 
venture 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 
to the venture are: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, 
Spring, TX; Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX; Chevron U.S.A. Inc., 
A Pennsylvania Corporation through its Division Chevron Energy 
Technology Company Division, San Ramon, CA; Chevron Phillips Chemical 
Company LP, The Woodlands, TX; Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN; 
and Phillips 66 Company, Houston, TX. The general area of PERF Project 
No. 2014-10's planned activity is, through cooperative research 
efforts, to explore a series of field tests at a commercial scale test 
flare to collect raw data regarding performance of third party vendor/
licensor remote sensing technologies to continuously measure flare 
combustion efficiency (CE).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-06083 Filed 3-16-16; 8:45 am]
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