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Unocal's Gold Medal Award



from the api website from yours truly, dawn star
oh, today's Le Monde parodied Chirac's elocution of human rights with a
story on Iranian atrocities against intellectuals, and Total's planned
Iranian pipeline despite US govt sanctions...Liberation, other french
left center daily newspaper features inside photo of Dalai Lama entering
the French Presidential Palace (the french only invited him last Friday
to avoid a beating from the Chinese masters of French business)Ah, oui,
en France c'est comme ca, n'est-ce pas? 

Incidently, the Dec 7 WSJ Europe published "Unocal Quits Venture to
Build Afgan Pipeline", based on an El Segundo, California company
spokesman, saying "it is dropping out of a contsortium that has been
trying to build a $4.4 billion trans-Asian pipeline system through
strife-torn Afganistan (gas and oil).
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API                         
News Release

               API Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement

        SAN FRANCISCO, November 9?Richard J. Stegemeier, chairman
        emeritus of Unocal Corporation in Los Angeles and an
        honorary member of the American Petroleum Institute?s (API)
        Board of Directors, today received the Institute?s highest
        award, the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement.

        As a top executive of Unocal from 1980 to 1995, Stegemeier
        led several major environmental initiatives, including
        Unocal?s South Coast Recycled Auto Project (SCRAP) launched
        in 1990, which eventually removed almost 8,400 heavily
        polluting older vehicles from the roadways of the Los
        Angeles basin. The program eliminated nearly 13 million
        pounds of pollution from the air annually, the equivalent
        of taking 150,000 new cars off the road.

        Stegemeier joined Unocal?s board of directors in 1980 and
        became senior vice president of corporate development, and
        was elected president and chief operating officer of Unocal
        in 1985. He became president and chief executive officer on
        July 1, 1988, and in April 1989, he was elected chairman of
        the Board.

        Stegemeier became chairman emeritus of Unocal upon his
        retirement in May 1995.

        As a nine-year member of API?s Board of Directors,
        Stegemeier chaired API?s Public Policy Committee and its
        Committee on Awards. He also served on the Management,
        Executive and Budget Advisory Committees and the Committee
        on Nomination.

        Stegemeier, a native of Illinois, is the author of Straight
        Talk: The Future of Energy in the Global Economy, published
        in 1995. The book describes the role of energy in fueling
        economic growth and promotes creativity as the key to
        business success. It notes that the creative person must
        ?transform problems into opportunities.

        Stegemeier?s first assignment with Unocal was as a research
        engineer in Brea, California, where he was awarded nine
        patents in production technology.

        In 1961, he joined Unocal?s natural gas department as an
        engineer. In 1964, Stegemeier was assigned to Tokyo and
        later spent a decade abroad with tours in Australia,
        Singapore and Indonesia. In 1978, Stegemeier was named
        president of Unocal?s Science and Technology Division.

        Stegemeier is a member of the board of directors of
        Halliburton Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation,
        Foundation Health Systems, Inc., Sempra Energy and
        Montgomery Watson, Inc. He was elected to the National
        Academy of Engineering and is a member of the Society of
        Petroleum Engineers. Stegemeier is a member of the
        executive committee of the California Chamber of Commerce
        and was chairman of its board of directors in 1994. He is a
        trustee of the University of Southern California and a
        former member of the board of the National Council for
        Business Advisors, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
        and the National Association of Manufacturers. He has
        served as chairman of both the Los Angeles and the Orange
        County World Affairs Councils.

        Stegemeier received a Bachelor of Science degree in
        petroleum engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla
        in 1950, and a Master of Science in that field from Texas A
        & M in 1951, the year he began his career with Unocal.

        He is a former member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy?s
        Advisory Board and the National Research Council?s
        Committee of Earth Sciences. Stegemeier is also a former
        member and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hugh
        O?Brian Youth Foundation, which awarded him and his wife,
        Marge, its Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award. The
        Stegemeiers also received the Spirit of Life Award from
        Group Effort.

        Among many other honors, Stegemeier has won the
        Distinguished Achievement Medal from the Geosciences and
        Earth Advisory Council of Texas A & M University, and the
        Outstanding Engineer Merit Award from the Institute of
        Advanced Engineering in 1981.

        Stegemeier received the API Gold Medal for Distinguished
        Achievement at a luncheon during API?s 78th Annual Meeting
        being held in San Francisco November 8-10.

        For additional information, please contact Susan L. Hahn at
                               202/682-8118

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