SYDNEY--20 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PARIS OFFICE... NEW YORK: Duff & Phelps, one of the world's leading independent financialadvisory firms, has announced the opening of a new office in Paris, France aspart of its continued European expansion. http://www.duffandphelps.com CHEVRON AWARDED... SAN RAMON, Calif.: Chevron Corporation Tuesday announced that its subsidiaryChevron Australia Pty Ltd has been awarded the exploration rights to acreage inthe highly prospective Greater Gorgon Area located off the northwest coast ofAustralia. http://www.chevron.com MOU SIGNED... ABU DHABI: Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Gulf Helicopters of Doha, QatarMonday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore establishing an AviationCenter of Excellence in the Middle East region. http://www.sikorsky.com LODESTAR DEMONSTRATES... PEABODY, Mass.: LODESTAR Corporation, a leading developer of software forthe energy industry, Monday announced that it will be demonstrating thecapabilities of its third-generation Meter Data Management (MDM) solutions atNational Power New Zealand 2007 in Auckland, 26-28 February. http://www.lodestarcorp.com HUGHES ANNOUNCES... GERMANTOWN, Md.: Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) and Cobham PLCcompany, Sea Tel, Inc., Monday announced the successful completion ofinteroperability testing between the Hughes HX family of IP satellite broadbandmodems and Sea Tel family of marine stabilized satellite antennas. http://www.hughes.com http://www.seatel.com PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION... FRANKFURT: Crytek, the award winning developers of the hit game "Far Cry"and the upcoming original blockbuster PC game "Crysis", Monday announced theworld's first public presentation of their CryENGINE 2 middleware to be held at2007 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. LICENCE AGREEMENT... MELBOURNE: Starpharma, through its US subsidiary company DendriticNanotechnologies Inc (DNT), has entered into a worldwide exclusive license andsupply agreement with EMD Biosciences, part of Merck KGaA's Performance andLife Science Chemicals division. www.starpharma.com ANNUAL RESULTS... HONG KONG: Noble Group Limited, a leading global supply chain manager ofagricultural, industrial and energy products, will report 2006 Annual financialresults and discuss its management outlook on Thursday 22nd February 2007 afterSingapore market hours. http://www.thisisnoble.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)