MANILA, Oct. 13 (PNA) — With oil finally flowing from the Galoc oilfield off northwest Palawan, the Philippines has moved a step closer to realizing its vision of achieving energy independence, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said today.

At the Business Roundtable with the government at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City this morning, the President told around 150 local and foreign business leaders that the Galoc oil field started producing yesterday the first commercially-viable gasoline-crude oil find in the country. Read more. . .

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