the National Transportation Safety Board 
(NTSB). 
Egil Myklebust has become new chairman of Norway's Norsk Hydro in place of 
Einar Kloster, who asked to step down last year. Myklebust retires as 
president and chief executive on May 2. The company also has two new board 
members, Ingvild Myhre and Elisabeth Grieg. Noble Affiliates president and 
chief executive Charles Davidson will take on the additional role of chairman 
in place of Robert Kelley, who is retiring.
President George W. Bush plans to nominate career diplomat Richard Henry 
Jones as ambassador to Kuwait. Jones, now ambassador to Kazakstan, was 
ambassador to Lebanon from 1996-98, and was previously director of the State 
Department's office of Egyptian affairs. Bush also plans to nominate Enron 
Energy Services vice chairman Thomas White as secretary ofthe army at the 
Pentagon. The Senate has to approve the nominations.

Venezuela Moving On Plans To Build Up Natural Gas Indus
By Charles Roth
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

04/27/2001
Dow Jones Energy Service 
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) 

Porlamar, MARGARITA -(Dow Jones)- Venezuela is forging ahead with plans to 
develop its natural gas industry through a series of concessions involving 
both foreign and local companies. Industry officials reckon the effort should 
generate up to $13 billion in investment over the next 10 years. 
The biggest push now underway in the "Gasification of the Nation" program is 
the awarding of 11 licenses for the exploration and production of non-oil 
associated gas in central-western Venezuela, a zone estimated to contain 6 
trillion to 20 trillion cubic feet in reserves. Of 34