[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 21288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08523]


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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. 2011-07, Flare Combustion Efficiency Tools and Best Practices

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 11, 2014, 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. 2011-07, Flare Combustion Efficiency Tools and Best 
Practices (``PERF Project No. 2011-07'') 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, 
Fairfax, VA; Total SA, Total Petrochemical and Refining, U.S.A., La 
Porte, TX; Suncor Energy Services, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 
Chevron U.S.A., INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation acting through its 
CHEVRON Energy Technology Company Division, San Ramon, CA; and BP 
Products North America Inc., Naperville, IL.
    The general area of PERF Project No. 2011-07's planned activity is 
through cooperative research efforts, to share information, methods, 
and tools needed for developing improved flare emissions estimating 
methodologies and to summarize flare operating practices that are 
expected to provide high combustion/destruction efficiancy.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
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