Conoco says Sweeny compressor shut during FCC start up

NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips said on Thursday a hydrogen purification unit compressor shut briefly in association with start-up of a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracker at its Sweeny, Texas, refinery.

“The compressor was brought back on-line as soon as possible,” Conoco said in a filing with the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality, but added that some residual flaring occurred while units were stabilizing.

I am getting sick of seeing your news organization refer to ConocoPhillips as Conoco. The merger occurred over SEVEN years ago. It is disgusting that this continues to happen so persistently. I’ve contacted Reuters on more than one occasion about this.

A Morgan Stanley star falls in China

Interviews with those who know and have worked with him say his story is one of an ambitious and hard-working expatriot who appears to have crossed the line in his zeal to get ahead in the Chinese business world.

In the story on Garth Peterson he is called an ‘expatriot’ which would make him a Benedict Arnold or a turncoat. Given the context of the story it would seem the correct word would be ‘expatriate,’ defined as a person who has withdrawn from his native land, but not a former citizen or supporter.

E.S.D.

This is not a question. The word “expatriate” is misspelled as “expatriot.” This should have been caught by an automatic spelling-checker.

Young

Yes, or caught by a human editor.

A street sign stands near the Morgan Stanley worldwide headquarters building in New York May 8, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

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Brussels set to complain over Oracle’s deal to by Sun-FT

I am sure someone has made you aware of this ERROR…. The word you want is BUY.

Kelly

Yes. Readers did, as you say, make us aware of this one: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo Robert Galbraith

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Microsoft launches new phone software

The market for phones is set to treble or quadruple in the next few years, Ballmer said, and Microsoft is ready to challenge other phone makers for market share.

The following quote: “The market for phones is set to treble or quadruple in the next few years, Ballmer said, and Microsoft is ready to challenge other phone makers for market share.” was on your site today.

While I do have trouble getting decent bass on my cellphone, the treble is quite good.

T.A.

Ballmer used the word correctly. You may wish to check a dictionary:

Treble: verb (used with object), verb (used without object) to make or become three times as much or as many; triple. GBU Editor

Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer gestures during a news conference in Munich, October 7, 2009. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

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AIG CEO defends holiday, slams “lynch mob” attacks

The new AIG CEO is being paid more than his predecessor, Ed Liddy, who made just $1 a year. AIG said it will pay Benmosche $3 million in cash and $4 million in fully-vested stock. He also could receive a bonus valued as high as $3.5 million.

I presume you meant $1 million a year? I mean I know it’s a crisis but I hope Ed got paid a little more than that…

Martin

Nope, $1 a year was the correct figure for Liddy: GBU Editor

AIG CEO Edward Liddy gestures as he testifies before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises on Capitol Hill in Washington in this March 18, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mike Theiler/Files

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Canada economy stabilizing, lonnie a concern: Flaherty

That should be “Loonie a concern.” The nickname for the canadian dollar is loonie. The origin comes from the image of the loon on the coin.

L.R.G.

Yes. We fixed it, thanks: GBU Editor

A Canadian one dollar coin, also known as a loonie, in a 2006 file photo. REUTERS/ Shaun Best

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Democrats expand Senate control, yet splits remain

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats achieved their biggest majority in the U.S. Senate in decades on Tuesday as Al Franken of Minnesota finally took his seat — but President Barak Obama will still have to fight hard to muster the votes to pass healthcare reform and other major initiatives.

This article has Obama’s first name spelled wrong in the first paragraph. Boo!

D.W.

We corrected, but not before readers noticed. Which brings us to this next item.

UBS to restrict U.S. offshore account access-source

But the Swiss giant is still embroiled in a civil lawsuit in which the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is trying to get information about 52,000 U.S. accounts and it faces a first court hearing on July 13.

This article while well written contains a large error, the IRS the United States Federal Government’s Tax Agency is known colloquially and officially as the Internal Revenue Service, not Inland.

This error makes your article look sloppy, and as if no one has proof-read it. The time it takes to do proofreading and fact-checking is a few seconds by typing IRS into Google.

Steven B.

We corrected. Inland Revenue is the name of the tax collection authority in a number of countries, but not, as you point out, in the U.S. GBU Editor

Holding a tax rebate letter from the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about the economy during a visit to a small business in Sterling, Virginia March 26, 2006. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Pirate Bay founders get rich in jail

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, and that it would find ways to compensate copyright owners for downloaded material.

The four Swedish men behind the website were sentenced in April to one year in jail and ordered to pay damages of 3.6 million dollars for running the site, which is one of the world’s largest for downloading files on the Internet.

The PirateBay founders are NOT in jail!!! They are free on appeal.

Please get your facts straight and spare us this type of dishonest and sensationalistic headlining. It is sad to see Reuters going down the road of tabloid journalism.

Matt B.

Is this true? In Sweden one does not serve a sentence until the appeals process ends. Their conviction came from the lowest Swedish court and now they are appealing to the district (which will most likely end up being seen before the Supreme court before this is over and done with.

I just think it is unfair to say they are making money while in jail while to the best of my knowledge the verdict is not yet lawful and they are still free men.

John L,

A number of readers noticed this one. The headline was correct on most of our services, but unfortunately was rewritten in the online version: GBU Editor

Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij (L), Gottfrid Svartholm (C) and Peter Sunde leave the city court after the last day of argument’s in their copyright trial in Stockholm March 3, 2009. REUTERS/Bob Strong

Madoff can expect de facto life term at sentencing

NEW YORK, June 29 (Reuters) - Admitted thief Bernard Madoff will leave his jail cell and be taken under guard to court on Monday morning to hear his punishment for running Wall Street’s biggest and most brazen investment scheme.

The opening sentence in this article is ignorant. It It is not a crime to run a big or a brazen investment scheme.